Lead Health & Wellbeing Coach

Posted 2 hours 17 minutes ago by NHS

Permanent
Full Time
Other
Devon, Sidmouth, United Kingdom, EX100
Job Description
HOSMS Primary Care Network have anexciting opportunity for a Fixed Term Maternity Cover Health and Wellbeing TeamLead & Health and Wellbeing Coach to join their established and successfulPCN Health and Wellbeing Team. This service has been delivering high-qualityhealth and wellbeing support for over five years across Honiton Surgery,Coleridge Medical Centre, and Sid Valley Practice, including Health andWellbeing Coaching, Social Prescribing, Group Work, Signposting, and StaffWellbeing initiatives.

Main duties of the job The successful candidate will playa key leadership role within the team, supporting the coordination and ongoingdevelopment of services across the PCN while also delivering directpatient-facing interventions. They will provide guidance and support to teammembers, contribute to service planning, and help ensure consistent,high-quality, and person-centred care across all sites. HOSMS PCN will providestructured support, including supervision and mentorship, to enable success inboth the leadership and coaching aspects of the role.

About us We are the lead practice for our PCN, working collaboratively with two other practices, Sid Valley Practice and Coleridge Medical Centre. We have developed a wide range of PCN teams and roles, including, Health and Wellbeing Team, First Contact Physiotherapists, Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians. Honiton Surgery has a highly committed and friendly team of GP Partners. Salaried GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Allied Health Professionals, Clinical Pharmacists, Practice Nursing Team and Clinical Research Team. We have a reputation for providing excellent care to our 18,000 patients and are rated Good by the CQC.

Job responsibilities We are looking for a friendly, approachable, and proactive individual who is passionate about improving health outcomes and supporting others. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong leadership potential, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively. Experience in supporting a range of mental and physical health needs, alongside an ability to guide and support colleagues, will be essential for this role.
  • Provide day to day leadership, supervision and support to the Health and Wellbeing Coaching team and the Social Prescribing Link Worker, working closely with the Service Lead and Clinical Lead.
  • Manage,allocateand prioritise the team caseload alongside your own, ensuring individuals receivetimely,appropriateandpersoncentredsupport.
  • Oversee the effective delivery of all Health and Wellbeing services, including 1:1 coaching, social prescribing, group interventions, social media activity, staff wellbeinginitiativesand signposting.
  • Ensure the teamoperatesefficiently across all three HOSMS PCN practices,maintainingconsistent service standards andequitableaccess.
Ensure robust systems are in place for the collection,monitoringand reporting of service data, including preparation of regular reports for team meetings, PCN boards and annual reviews.

Support team members with ongoing project reporting,evaluationand continuous improvement activities.

Oversee referral pathways,triageand assessment processes, addressing any concerns in collaboration with managers and clinical leads.

Liaise with the relevant safeguarding leads at all three practicesregardingany safeguarding concerns, ensuringtimelyescalation and adherence to local and national safeguarding procedures. Attending safeguarding meetings whenappropriate.

Identifyopportunities for service development, innovation and partnership working to enhance the health and wellbeing offer across the PCN.

Work as part of a multidisciplinary,multiagencyteam to promote the role of health coaching and social prescribing within primary care.

Attend fortnightlymultiagencymeetings to present and discuss complex cases, contributing to shareddecisionmakingand coordinated care planning.

Supportnew staffinductions by providing information about the service and referral processes, ensuring practice teamsremaininformed about referral pathways and service updates.

Promote and raise awareness of the Health and Wellbeing service, particularly among communities who may face barriers to access.

Maintain positive working relationships with local VCSE organisations, attending networking meetings whererequiredand ensuring referral pathwaysremaincurrent and effective.

Triage and assess patients under the guidance of the PCN Clinical Lead

Manage and prioritise a patient list

Provide 1:1 health coaching interventions both in practice and virtually for patients identified as having mild to moderate mental health needs, physical health needs or requiring support with behaviour change to improve their health.

Use a non-judgemental, strengths and recovery based approach which considers the person as a whole when addressing their health issues

Use a number of tools to empower patients to take control of their own health

Provide interventions such as coping skills, self-management and education relevant to the individual

Coach and motivate patients through multiple sessions to identify their needs, set goals and support them to achieve their personalised health and care plan objectives.

Facilitate group health coaching interventions such as HOPE Programme

Encourage patients to actively participate in their recovery journey using a working knowledge of community assets, increasing their ability to access and utilise community support offers

Provide personalised support to individuals, their families, and carers to support them to be active participants in their own healthcare; empowering them to manage their own health and wellbeing and to live independently

Increase patient motivation to self-manage and adopt healthy behaviours

Refer people back to other health professionals within the PCN when appropriate

Support personal choice and positive risk taking whilst ensuring that patients understand the accountability of their own actions and decisions, thus encouraging the proactive prevention of further illnesses

Work in partnership with the social prescribing service to connect patients to community-based

Network with VCSE organisations to support collaborative working and increase support offerings for individuals.

Undertake project work alongside triage and maintenance of a 1-2-1 caseload.

Communicate information in a way that makes it relevant and understandable for service users and carers, working in line with practice standards and operational policies.
  • The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the surgery Health & Safety Policy, the surgery Health & Safety Manual, and the surgery Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will include:
  • Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
  • Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
  • Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
  • Actively reporting of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
  • Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, assisting in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness consistent with the scope of the job holders role
  • Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum annually)
  • The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
  • Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with surgery policies and procedures, and current legislation
  • Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
  • Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights
  • The post-holder will participate in any training program implemented by the Surgery as part of this employment, such training to include:
  • Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
  • Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work
  • Undertake regular reflective practice and engaging with supervision to support own professional development.
  • The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the Surgery
  • Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
  • Assess own performance and take accountability for their own actions, either directly or under supervision
  • Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
  • Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet the patients needs
  • Effectively manage own time, workload and resources
  • Communicate effectively with other team members
  • Communicate effectively with patients and carers
  • Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly
Important: This role is noteligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must have the right to work in the UKat the time of application.

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