Health & Wellbeing Coach​/Social Prescriber

The Health and Wellbeing Coach will be responsible for delivering group and one-to-one sessions on healthy eating, physical activity and health and well-being to meet with personalised care plans. The coach will play a critical role in engaging patients and use health coaching techniques to support them to take an active role in their health.

The Social Prescribing element of the role provides support to people and can help to strengthen community resilience and personal resilience, and reduces health inequalities by addressing the wider determinants of health, such as debt, poor housing, and physical inactivity, by increasing people's active involvement with their local communities.

The Health and Wellbeing Coach will work closely within a multidisciplinary team with patients of low to medium complexity who will usually have 1 or more long term conditions.

The post holder will work closely with the other members of the primary care team and complex care teams in the management/decision making about care and service provision for individual patients.

As a Social Prescriber you will need to demonstrate flexibility and adaptability to working in a dynamic environment. Working within an integrated model of care to support the health and wellbeing of patients, providing information and advice about a range of services to promote health and wellbeing and maintain independence within communities. You will also seek to reduce demand on statutory services and to combat unnecessary GP appointments or contacts.

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join our team. The hours are part‑time, but we are seeking someone who is able to work either a Monday or Friday, or both, as part of their working week.

Coastal Medical Partnership is an innovative and forward‑thinking Partnership which also represents a single Primary Care Network. We are in the unusual position of being able to work seamlessly across the network, with no inter‑Partnership/Practice boundaries. We aspire to provide great quality care to our patients, and also to look after each other at work, to ensure safe and sustainable Primary Care.

Key Responsibilities for Health & Wellbeing Coach include:

• Identification of people with long term conditions and low knowledge skills and confidence to manage their health and wellbeing.
• Responsibility for providing support (clinical or non‑clinical) to a cohort of patients who will benefit from proactive health management and care including being the single point of contact for the person or carer to simplify access and coordination of services.
• Playing a health coaching role; teaching and supporting patients/carers to understand and manage their own conditions and maintain an independent lifestyle through health coaching techniques to encourage patient activation.
• Supporting the development of personalised patient care plans, liaising with the practice team, patient/carer and the complex care team as appropriate.
• Proactively supporting practice targets for number of patients who have seen a health coach.
• Proactively outreaching to patients on a regular and agreed basis.
• Playing an active role in MDT meetings if required (regular practice meetings to discuss high risk and / or complex patients) by gathering information and being prepared to update the team on patient progress towards goals etc. (as per their care plan).
• Map and connect community activities/resources at a locality level including supporting the development of a network of community health champions.
• Support the delivery of community based public health initiatives such as physical activity, healthy eating and social connectedness.
• Build and maintain strong links with the voluntary sector, supporting the voluntary and statutory sector to network and improve partnership working.
• Support delivery of systematic self‑care support plans for those with COPD, diabetes, asthma and multiple long‑term conditions.
• Understand when it is appropriate or necessary to refer people to other health professionals/agencies.
• Understand the barriers for individuals/groups in accessing support in the…