Health and Wellbeing Coach - Epping, United Kingdom - Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
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Epping, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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As a Health and Wellbeing support worker for EPUT you will aim to provide ongoing support, compassion and established resources to patients suffering with symptoms of Post Covid Syndrome.


Using your commination skills you will provide a positive experience for each and every service user and enable the best outcome possible to enable them to maintain and improve their quality of life.


As a Health & Wellbeing Coach you will support clients to:

  • Assess their lifestyles and wellbeing
  • Set goals for improving their health
  • Agree actionplans
  • Provide practical support and information that will help people to take an active role in managing their health and wellbeing.
Provide empathy and acknowledgement around their lived experience

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;

  • Season Ticket Loans
  • NHS discounts for staff
  • Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
  • Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
  • The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
  • Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
  • Day One Flexible Employer
Join our Staff bank

What is Staff Bank?


Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings.

Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.


All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.


If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.


As an integral part of the Long Covid Clinic you will be working within a therapy led team alongside Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, senior support workers and medical support.

As a team we aim to provide a bespoke, holistic assessment and ongoing treatments for service users suffering with the long term effects of Covid 19.

Service users may require different services on their journey of recovery and each person in this team is empowered to provide the best care to gain the best outcome for each and every patient.

To be able to support this positive ethos the team is also supported by the local community services including Speech and Language Therapy, Dietician and the IAPT service (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies) along with community therapy, pulmonary rehabilitation, community respiratory nurse and cardiac teams.

Within this role you will have a varied caseload that has been assessed by the lead clinician(s), and patients requiring further clinical assessment or rehabilitation support can be presented at our weekly multidisciplinary team (MDT) meeting.


  • To be part of the Long Covid Clinic and support patients
  • To provide follow up and final assessment
  • To be able to triage referrals using the Airedale (Yorkshire Screening) Tool
  • Take complete onward noncomplex referrals to relevant services post triage.
  • Using excellent professional and communication skills
  • To ensure referrals have sufficient information to complete a contact assessment
  • To communicate to the Clinical Lead or Specialist Therapist(s) or Medical Staff if a patient presenting for assessment is more complex
  • To have a working knowledge of Covid, its symptoms and its challenges to patients with long Covid.
  • Use PC skills for data entry, processing referrals, recording notes of multidisciplinary meetings, recording telephone calls and other IT needs as the job requires.
  • To arrange alternative or additional appointments for clients and manage own clinic/appointment times. Updating senior staff as appropriate.
  • To participate and attend regular monthly meetings and the multidisciplinary weekly team meetings.
  • You will be expected to work collaboratively with key partner organisations, service users, carers, clinicians and other practitioners within the multidisciplinary team in delivering services; providing a 7day a week, 24hours a day service for 365 days a year working shifts, where appropriate and operationally required.
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