Health and Wellbeing Coach

Job summary

Health and Wellbeing Coaches predominately use health coaching skills to support people with lower levels of patient activation to develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to manage their health and wellbeing, whilst increasing their ability to access and utilise community support offers. They may also provide access to self-management education, peer support, and social prescribing.

Health and Wellbeing Coaches will take an approach that considers the whole person in addressing existing issues and encourages proactive prevention of new and existing illnesses.

They will take an approach that is non-judgemental, based on strong communication and negotiation skills, that supports personal choice and positive risk taking, that addresses potential consequences, and ensures patients understand the accountability of their own decisions.

Main duties of the job

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 isimportant 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
• 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
• Ensure that fellow PCN staff are made aware of health coaching and social prescribing services and support colleagues to improve their skills and understanding of personalised care, behavioural approaches, and ensuring consistency in the follow up of peoples goals where an Multi Discipline Teams MDT is involved
• Raise awareness within the PCN of shared decision making and decision support tools and supporting people in shared decision-making conversations

About us

LAKESIDE HEALTHCARE is changing the face of primary care provision in England. We are bold, adventurous and ambitious and determined to thrive in uncertain times. We are the largest true partnership in the NHS and operate from various sites across the East Midlands. We serve the healthcare needs of over 170,000 patients across Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire & Cambridgeshire.

Caring & Respect: Simply put we genuinely care about people: working together for our patients and our teams, our patients come first in everything we do.

Teamwork & Quality: In all areas of our business we network, collaborate and learn from our Patients, Stakeholders and each another to ensure we are always striving to improve, making the right and best decisions to provide the best service.

About the Practice/Department/Team

South Peterborough PCN is a large, forward-thinking Primary Care Network compromising four practices across South Peterborough. We recognise the value that these roles will bring to our practices and our patients, and we look forward to growing our PCN team.

Our aim is to provide exemplary patient care, finding innovative solutions in general practice to deliver the best care we can to our patients.

Employer details

Employer name

Lakeside Healthcare Group

Address

Lakeside Healthcare

Landsdowne Road

Yaxley

Peterborough

PE7 3JL

Employer's website

https://www.lakesidehealthcaregroup.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Lakeside Healthcare Group

Address

Lakeside Healthcare

Landsdowne Road

Yaxley

Peterborough

PE7 3JL

Employer's website

https://www.lakesidehealthcaregroup.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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