Health & Wellbeing Coach

To provide individual support for people within primary care to explore ways of improving mental health and well-being. Support people to utilise self-help and to aid individual goal planning and measurement of recovery using standardised tools available on the clinical system as clinically relevant. Support people to make informed choices about their health and wellbeing, which includes improve the levels of physical activity, promote a healthier diet, and improve mental wellbeing. Support access to wider community activities and support as part of an individual plan. Effectively signpost and support access to appropriate services. There is an AI toll available to help support service identification. Support primary care and mental health colleagues to address the wider determinates of health and deliver individual package of support and education. Facilitate collective action, support and advice to people within local communities in order to reduce health inequalities whilst responding to identified health needs through one-to-one support. Utilise social prescribing to develop individual recovery and support planning, Participate in multi disciplinary working with other community health professionals. Promote effective and efficient working practices across the team to achieve measurable outcomes. Develop and maintain effective relationships with Talking Therapies leads, local communities primary care, secondary mental health service, VCSE sector, social prescribers etc. Ensure performance information is collected accurately and timely to enable accurate and valid reports to be produced. To actively support the team in fulfilling all contractual requirements of service delivery. Safely and effectively manage own caseload under supervision of a GP MONITORING & EVALUATION 1. To participate in the formal evaluation of the role as applicable 2. To be responsible for relevant data collection on work activities, inputting data onto the patient recorded database as required 3. To be responsible and accountable to a supervisor from primary care Job description Job responsibilities To provide individual support for people within primary care to explore ways of improving mental health and well-being. Support people to utilise self-help and to aid individual goal planning and measurement of recovery using standardised tools available on the clinical system as clinically relevant. Support people to make informed choices about their health and wellbeing, which includes improve the levels of physical activity, promote a healthier diet, and improve mental wellbeing. Support access to wider community activities and support as part of an individual plan. Effectively signpost and support access to appropriate services. There is an AI toll available to help support service identification. Support primary care and mental health colleagues to address the wider determinates of health and deliver individual package of support and education. Facilitate collective action, support and advice to people within local communities in order to reduce health inequalities whilst responding to identified health needs through one-to-one support. Utilise social prescribing to develop individual recovery and support planning, Participate in multi disciplinary working with other community health professionals. Promote effective and efficient working practices across the team to achieve measurable outcomes. Develop and maintain effective relationships with Talking Therapies leads, local communities primary care, secondary mental health service, VCSE sector, social prescribers etc. Ensure performance information is collected accurately and timely to enable accurate and valid reports to be produced. To actively support the team in fulfilling all contractual requirements of service delivery. Safely and effectively manage own caseload under supervision of a GP MONITORING & EVALUATION 1. To participate in the formal evaluation of the role as applicable 2. To be responsible for relevant data collection on work activities, inputting data onto the patient recorded database as required 3. To be responsible and accountable to a supervisor from primary care