Health Coach

Would you like to work within Primary Care and Mental Health, a service delivered in partnership with MIND and SHSC, which ensures that the people of Sheffield have excellent local, joined up, sustainable primary and community mental health support to enable them to live their lives to the full?

The job purpose is to contribute to improving health and reducing diseases associated with lifestyle, by supporting people to develop healthier behaviours and contributing to delivery of the service aims and standards in line with national and Primary and Community Mental Health Transformation (PCMHT) programme priorities.

Where appropriate focussing on the wider determinants of health and facilitating access to community based support to help people self-care and address issues of loneliness and isolation. Identifying and making contact with patients to encourage uptake of NHS physical health checks. Completing physical health checks including drawing blood from patients. Working with a defined population using behaviour change techniques with individuals and groups to empower them to identify, make, and sustain positive lifestyle changes to improve their health and wellbeing.

The post holder will play a crucial role in coordinating and supporting the development and implementation of the project and completing some health checks on a citywide basis.

This will require ongoing and close liaison with key stakeholders as part of a partnership approach. The successful applicant must be able to demonstrate that they are able to communicate effectively with patients.

Primary Care Sheffield (PCS) is a GP-led organisation. Our shareholders are 75 GP practices in Sheffield covering over half a million patients. As well as providing a unified voice for general practice in the city, we play an active role both within our Accountable Care Partnership (ACP) and the wider South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Integrated Care System (ICS).

To work as part of the wider multi-disciplinary team and with partners to support individuals to improve their physical, emotional and social health and wellbeing by coaching individuals and groups to identify and initiate opportunities for change

Using the principles of Making Every Contact Count (MECC) supporting individuals to make informed choices about their health and wellbeing and supporting them in initiating and sustaining appropriate behavioural changes to improve their physical, emotional and social wellbeing

Work with the wider system to ensure a co-ordinated approach to care and support planning across primary care, secondary care, and community settings

Helping people to find and use the right services to support health improvement.

Identifying new referral pathways and strengthening existing ones into the health trainer service

To work with city wide physical health check strategies to undertake capacity building work. Recording and reporting activities and results

Acts within standard operating procedures

Able to work independently within role boundaries and under the management and guidance of the line manager and wider team

Communications and Relationships

Recording and reporting activities and results

Exchanges factual information with patients using persuasion, reassurance, tact, empathy; may overcome barriers to understanding

To support the identification of health needs and undertake as appropriate the planning, implementation and evaluation of individual care interventions

The ability to communicate clear and accurate information to patients on a range of health related issues

Provide advice, instruction and training to small groups of patients and other health professionals

To develop working relationships within a variety of different organisations and teams

The ability to communicate effectively with a range of staff across disciplines, grades and organisations

The ability to communicate with people from the local community from a variety of backgrounds where there may be barriers to understanding (learning disabilities, mental health needs etc.) in a supportive and non-judgemental manner

To be able to communicate potentially…