Temporary Health & Wellbeing Coach Maternity Cover

Temporary Health & Wellbeing Coach Maternity Cover

Employer: NHS Jobs

Location: Warrington, WA2 7NJ

Pay: £26,593.00 to £27,375.00 per year

Contract Type: Contract

Hours: Full time

Disability Confident: No

Closing Date: 21/03/2026

Temporary Maternity Cover:
Health and Wellbeing Coach. Full or part time hours will be considered. Central & West Warrington (CWW) Primary Care Network (PCN) is a group of 7 General Practices serving a population of 68,000, working together for the benefit of our patients.

Purpose of the Role: The successful candidate will work with our existing coach to support people to take proactive steps to improve how they manage their physical and mental health conditions, based on what matters to them. They will support people to develop their knowledge, skills and confidence (patient activation) in managing their health and care, improving health outcomes and quality of life.

Health and Wellbeing Coaches motivate patients through multiple sessions to identify needs, set goals and achieve personalised health and care plan objectives, providing interventions such as self-management education and peer support. They manage and prioritise a caseload according to need, identifying when a person’s needs are beyond the scope of the role and referring to appropriate professionals or organisations. Work may be delivered by phone, video or face-to-face.

The successful candidate will be kind, reflective and self-aware, with excellent communication and negotiation skills and a belief that people have untapped resources within them. They will provide a high-quality, non-judgemental service, be proactive and flexible, work effectively as part of a team and commit to ongoing development. Health and Wellbeing Coaches are key members of the PCN multidisciplinary team (MDT), working alongside Social Prescribing Link Workers and Care Coordinators to promote and embed personalised care.

Ongoing supervision, skills development and support will be provided.

Please note:

this is a non-clinical role.

Key Responsibilities: Provide one-to-one and group health coaching for people with long-term conditions to improve activation, empower self-management and improve outcomes. Manage and prioritise a caseload, recognising when referral to other professionals is required (e.g. mental health needs beyond scope). Work within the MDT to promote health coaching, modelling personalised care and supported self-management. Ensure primary care teams understand the health coach role and referral processes.

Support health, social care and voluntary sector professionals to make appropriate referrals. Promote the service, particularly to communities experiencing barriers to access. Attend and contribute to team, practice and PCN meetings. Work flexibly in response to service needs while maintaining role integrity. Participate in regular supervision and continual learning, including: contact with supervisor, refresher training, peer/buddy support, action learning sets, e-learning, ongoing system improvements (dependent on skills and ability).

Contribute to train-the-trainer workshops to spread health coaching skills and embed a compassionate, coaching culture. Collect service user experience and impact data, including required data entry on GP, Local Authority, hospital or other systems. Consider using tools such as the Patient Activation Measurement (PAM), focusing on those with low activation while recognising benefit across all levels. Measure and respond to impact to support continuous improvement.

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