NHS Jobs
Health and Wellbeing Coach
Key Responsibilities
- 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 active participation in healthcare.
- Providing interventions such as self-management education and peer support.
- Supporting people to establish and attain goals.
- Working with the social prescribing service to connect individuals to community activities.
- Involvement in group activities, consultations, and support groups.
- Provide support to local community groups and collaborate with other providers.
- Facilitate groups of patients for consultations and goal attainment.
- Utilise IT and MDT channels to screen patients.
- Plan and respond to workload according to priorities.
- Support delivery across wider locality areas.
- Undertake any required training to maintain competency.
- Take responsibility for self-development and on-the-job training.
- Patient Care – Communicate effectively, using appropriate language.
- Effectively use all communication methods and manage communication barriers.
- Recognise and manage challenging behaviours.
- Provide information to patients, carers, and relatives.
- Supporting Care Delivery – Be the point of liaison for service users.
- Interface with health and social care professionals.
- Follow through actions identified by the MDT (including arranging tests, referrals).
- Ensure all services and care arrangements are in place.
Skills and Expertise
- Behaviour change expertise
- Improving health-related outcomes
- Setting personalised goals
- Motivational skills
- Working with individuals with physical and/or mental health conditions
- Experience with long-term conditions (respiratory, cardiovascular, stress/low mood)
- Weight management support
- Diet and activity level support
- IT proficiency
- MDT experience
- Communication skills
- Patient confidentiality
- Equality and diversity awareness
- Experience in community health