Health & Wellbeing Coach - Sba Primary Care Network - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Our Health Partnership

Our Health Partnership

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are seeking a Health and Wellbeing Coach to join our growing team at Our Health Partnership, working within South Birmingham Alliance Primary Care Network.

The post holder will be a key member of the PCN team, playing a critical role in engaging patients and using health coaching techniques to support them to take an active role in their health and wellbeing.

How to Apply:

Please submit your CV via Indeed

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work closely with the other members of the primary care team and complex care teams in the management and decision making about care and service provision for individual patients

This will include:
Care planning, health coaching and delivery of systematic self-management support based on a knowledge of individuals activation levels.

Support effective team working in primary care networks through taking on appropriate practicebased tasks and attending regular multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings when required.
Support for individuals to access appropriate community resources and services.

About us

Our Health Partnership was set up by local GPs who are passionate about providing high quality primary care and using their time and skills effectively to benefit patients.

We are currently a GP partnership of 33 practices with 42 surgeries.

176 GP partners and circa 80 salaried GPs in Our Health Partnership serving around 300,000 patients in Birmingham, Sutton Coldfield, Wolverhampton, Solihull and Shropshire.

The partnership offers a shared administrative and management structure, cutting down the time doctors have to spend on admin. It opens up economies of scale to get best value from budgets. It has the resources to develop innovative services and effective partnerships with local hospitals and care services. And it can access new funding streams that are only available to large GP organisations.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job purpose
Identification of people who would benefit from health and well-being coaching interventions.

Responsibility for providing support (clinical or non-clinical) to a cohort of patients who will benefit from proactive health management.

To accept referrals from members of the general practice and PCN teams.

Teaching and supporting patients and carers to understand and manage their own conditions and maintain an independent lifestyle through health coaching techniques to encourage patient activation.

Supporting the development of personalised patient care and support plans, liaising with the GP practice team, patient and or carer and specialist teams as appropriate.

Playing an active role in MDT meetings if required (regular practice meetings to discuss high risk and or complex patients) by gathering information and being prepared to update the team on patient progress towards goals etc.

(as per their care plan)

Map and connect community activities and resources at a locality level including working closely with the Social Prescribing Link Worker to support the PCN population.

Support the delivery of community based public health initiatives such as physical activity, healthy eating, and social connectedness.

Adopting a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency approach to care, ensuring that all aspects of the patients needs are met.

Participating in relevant clinical and service audits

Maintaining professional and personal development aligned to role.

Key role requirements

Coach and motivate patients through multiple sessions to identify their needs, set goals, and support them to implement their personalised health and care plan.

Provide personalised support to individuals, their families, and carers to ensure that they are active participants in their own healthcare; empowering them to take more control in managing their own health and wellbeing, to live independently, and improve their health outcomes through:
A) Providing interventions such as self-management education and peer support.

B) Supporting people to establish and attain goals set by the person based on what is important to them, building on goals that are important to the individual.

C) Working with the social prescribing service to connect them to community-based activities which support their health and wellbeing.

To possess the knowledge and skills to motivate and deliver education to patients to engage in dietary and lifestyle changes to benefit health, for example education regarding low carb diets for diabetes.

To be involved in group activities, consultations, and support groups to facilitate improvements in health and well-being.

Focus on obesity (BMI >30), Type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes.

Provide support to local community groups and work with other health, social care, and voluntary sector providers to support the patients health and well-being holistically.

Ensure that fellow PCN staff are made aware of health coaching and social prescribing services and support colleagues to improve