Health & Wellbeing Coach - Childrens & Young People - Whitehaven, United Kingdom - Copeland Primary Care Network

Description

Copeland Primary Care Network

Health & Wellbeing Coach

Responsible to:
Copeland Primary Care Network


Accountable to:
Wellness Service OT Lead/PCN Leadership Team/PCN Board


Base:
TBC- the post holder will be required to work across a number of Copeland GP Practice sites


Salary:
Dependant on experience


Hours:
Full-time or part-time considered, up to 37.5 hours per week.

This is an exciting opportunity to take on a new role and a new challenge with Copeland Primary Care Network as a Health & Wellbeing Coach to within Copeland Wellness Service, which is part of Copeland Primary Care Network.

We would be particularly keen to hear from applicants with knowledge and experience in supporting the wellbeing of children, working with individuals under 18 years of age.

You will be deployed to work on delivering a comprehensive service across a number of local population health priorities. You will be working alongside existing

Social Prescribing Link Workers and Health and Wellbeing Coaches who will support your induction into this role.


About us
Copeland Primary Care Network consists of 7 GP practices providing cover across Copeland from Distington to Bootle.

The Copeland Wellness Service has been established to improve the health and wellbeing of our population, with a number of key health priorities.

Alongside our primary care and community colleagues, the team includes Health Coaches, Clinicians and Social Prescribers. This is a relatively new service and the team are actively involved in the design of service delivery. We are committed to ongoing professional development through training, supported by regular supervision and appraisal.


JOB PURPOSE

• Health and Wellbeing Coaches support young people to take proactive steps to improve the way they manage their physical and mental health conditions, based on what matters to them. They support people to develop their knowledge, skills and confidence or to build their "patient activation" in managing their health and care, to improve their health outcomes and quality of life. Health coaches do this by coaching and motivating patients through multiple sessions to identify their needs, set goals, and supporting patients to achieve their personalised health and care plan objectives and providing interventions such as self

- management education and peer support.

• Health and Wellbeing Coaches manage and prioritise a caseload, according to the needs, priorities and support required by individuals in the caseload. They identify when a person's needs are beyond the scope of the health and wellbeing coach role and refer them back to other health professionals or organisations.

Health and Wellbeing Coaches may work with people by phone, by video conference, or face-to-face.

They will be proactive with a flexible attitude, keen to work as part of a team and committed to developing themselves in this skilled role and supporting colleagues to do the same.

• Health and Wellbeing Coaches are a key part of the Primary Care Network (PCN) multidisciplinary team.

They work alongside Adult Social Prescribing Link Workers and health Coaches, Learning Disability Team and Occupational Therapy to provide an all-encompassing approach to personalised care and promote and embed the personalised care approach across the Primary Care Network.

• Health and Wellbeing Coaches will have access to ongoing supervision, skills development, and support so they are able to further build their skills and experience within the role.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide onetoone and group health coaching support for young people under 18 years of age with one or more longterm conditions, based on what is important to them, with the aim of: improving people's levels of 'activation', empowering people to manage their own health and improve their health outcomes.
• Manage and prioritise a caseload, in accordance with the needs, priorities and support required by individuals in the caseload. It is vital that you have a strong awareness and understanding of when it is appropriate or necessary to refer people back to other health professionals/agencies, when what the person needs is beyond the scope of the health and wellbeing coach role e.g. when there is a mental health need requiring the patient be referred to an appropriately qualified practitioner.
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary multiagency team to promote health coaching and to be ambassadors for Personalised Care and Supported Self-Management, modelling the coaching approach in their work.
• Ensure that the safety and protection of those referred to the service are paramount, using professional resources, senior PCN staff or service lead support to raise any safeguarding issues or concerns. Ensuring that an up to date working knowledge of safeguarding procedure, through training and supervision is expected.
• Ensure that GPs, practice staff and other members of the primary care t