Health and Wellbeing Coach
| Posting date: | 12 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £26,424 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £26424 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 May 2024 |
| Location: | Bishop Auckland, DL14 6XB |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | U0041-24-0007 |
Summary
Health and Wellbeing Coaches support 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. You will manage a caseload of patients, according to the needs, priorities and support required by individuals in the caseload. Your caseload will include patients with chronic diseases, with pre-diabetic and newly diagnosed Type 2 diabetic patients being a particular priority. You will support, motivate, and encourage patients to make positive lifestyle changes, including diet and exercise, to help improve their health and wellbeing. You will also support initiatives to improve the health and wellbeing of local NHS staff. The successful candidate will be kind, reflective and self-aware and will enjoy working with a wide range of people. They will have good communication and negotiation skills and a firm belief that people have untapped resources within them, that can be unleashed by providing a high quality, non-judgemental service. 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 will support colleagues to do the same.