Health and Wellbeing Coach

The post holder will:

Coach and motivate patients through multiple sessions to identify their needs, set goals, and support them to implement their personalised health and care plan. Provide personalised support to individuals, their families, and carers to ensure that they are active participants in their own healthcare; empowering them to take more control in managing their own health and wellbeing, to live independently, and improve their health outcomes through:

• Providing interventions such as self-management education and peer support.
• Supporting people to establish and attain goals set by the person based on what is important to them, building on goals that are important to the individual.
• Working with the social prescribing service to connect them to community-based activities which support their health and wellbeing.

To be involved in group activities, consultations, and support groups to facilitate improvements in health and well-being. Provide support to local community groups and work with other health, social care, and voluntary sector providers to support the patients' health and well-being holistically. Facilitate groups of patients in group consultations to assist patients to work with others for their own goals, including case finding groups of like-minded people. Utilise existing IT and MDT channels to screen patients, with an aim to identify those that would benefit from health coaching.

To be able to plan and respond to workload according to operational priorities. To support the delivery of these functions across wider locality areas where necessary. To undertake any training required in order to maintain competency including mandatory training. The Health and Wellbeing Coach is expected to take responsibility for self-development on a continuous basis, undertaking on-the-job training as required.