Western Dales Health & Wellbeing Coach
| Posting date: | 25 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £25,000.00 to £30,000.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £25000.00 - £30000.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 July 2025 |
| Location: | Carnforth, LA6 2HQ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B0160-25-0039 |
Summary
Key Duties & Responsibilities: Referrals 1.Promoting health & well-being/social prescribing and its role in self-management, and the wider determinants of health 2. Assessing, coaching and referring patients on for diagnoses and treating of dietary and nutritional problems.Supporting individuals and communities improve their health and prevent disease through food and lifestyle choices. 3. Linking in with local health groups and community initiatives to develop areas in diet, exercise and overall health improvement for patients 4. Build relationships with key staff in GP practices within the local Primary Care Network (PCN), attending relevant meetings, becoming part of the wider network team, giving information and feedback on health & well-being. 5. Be proactive in developing strong links with all local agencies to encourage referrals, recognising what they need to be confident in the service to make appropriate referrals. 6. Work in partnership with all local agencies to raise awareness of health & well-being/social prescribing and how partnership working can reduce pressure on statutory services, improve health outcomes and enable a holistic approach to care. 7. Provide referral agencies with regular updates about health & well-being, including training for their staff and how to access information to encourage appropriate referrals. 8. Seek regular feedback about the quality of service and impact of coaching on referral agencies. 9. Be proactive in encouraging self-referrals and connecting with all local communities, particularly those communities that statutory agencies may find hard to reach. Provide personalised support 1. Meet people on a one-to-one basis, making home visits where appropriate within organisations policies and procedures. Give people time to tell their stories and focus on what matters to me. Build trust with the person, providing non- judgemental support, respecting diversity and lifestyle choices. Work from a strength-based approach focusing on a persons assets. 2. Be a friendly source of information about wellbeing and prevention approaches. 3. Help people identify the wider issues that impact on their health and wellbeing, such as diet, exercise, debt, poor housing, being unemployed, loneliness and caring responsibilities. 4. Work with the person, their families and carers and consider how they can all be supported through social prescribing/coaching. 5. Help people maintain or regain independence through living skills, adaptations, enablement approaches and simple safeguards. 6. Work with individuals to co-produce a simple personalised support plan based on the persons priorities, interests, values, and motivations including what they can expect from the groups, activities and services they are being connected to and what the person can do for themselves to improve their health and wellbeing. 7. Where appropriate, physically introduce people to community groups, activities, and statutory services, ensuring they are comfortable. Follow up to ensure they are happy, able to engage, included and receiving good support. 8. Support community groups and VCSE organisations to receive referrals 9. Forge strong links with local VCSE organisations, community, and neighbourhood level groups, utilising their networks and building on whats already available to create a map or menu of community groups and assets. Use these opportunities to promote micro-commissioning or small grants if available. 10. Develop supportive relationships with local VCSE organisations, community groups and statutory services, to make timely, appropriate, and supported referrals for the person being introduced. 11. Ensure that local community groups and VCSE organisations being referred to have basic procedures in place for ensuring that vulnerable individuals are safe and, where there are safeguarding concerns, work with all partners to deal appropriately with issues. Where such policies and procedures are not in place, support groups to work towards this standard before referrals are made to them. 12. Work with commissioners and local partners to identify unmet needs within the community and gaps in community provision. 13. Support local partners and commissioners to develop new groups and services where needed, through small grants for community groups, micro-commissioning, and development support. 14. Encourage people who have been connected to community support through social prescribing to volunteer and give their time freely to others, to build their skills and confidence, and strengthen community resilience. 15. To be involved in and group activities, consultations, and support groups and to facilitate improvements for health and wellbeing. 16. Facilitate groups of patients-in group consultations to assist patients to work with others for their own goals, including case finding groups of like-minded people. Data capture 1. Work sensitively with people, their families, and carers to capture key information, enabling tracking of the impact of social prescribing on their health and wellbeing. 2. Encourage people, their families, and carers to provide feedback and to share their stories about the impact of health & well-being on their lives. 3. Work closely with GP practices within the PCN to ensure that correct referral codes are inputted to EMIS and that the persons use of the NHS can be tracked, adhering to data protection legislation and data sharing agreements with the clinical commissioning group (CCG). Clinical Governance 1. Identify risk issues that impact on peoples health or social care needs. 2. Take appropriate action to the significance of the risk and consistent with protection procedures, applying protection procedures, following lone worker procedure. 3. Demonstrate effective team working inclusive of all relevant professionals. 4. Report all accidents / incidents, and all ill health, failings in equipment and / or environment to line managers. 5. Contribute towards audit and data collection as required. 6. Once assessed as competent will be accountable for their own practice within their area of responsibility when identified and agreed with the line manager. 7. Work with your line manager to undertake continual personal and professional development, taking an active part in reviewing and developing the roles and responsibilities. 8. Adhere to organisational policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety. 9. Work with the Clinical mentor to access regular clinical supervision, to enable you to deal effectively with the difficult issues that people present. Miscellaneous 1. Work as part of the team to seek feedback, continually improve the service and contribute to business planning. 2. Undertake any tasks consistent with the level of the post and the scope of the role, ensuring that work is delivered in a timely and effective manner. 3. Duties may vary from time to time, without changing the general character of the post or the level of responsibility. Supervision The postholder will have access to appropriate clinical supervision and an appropriate named individual in the PCN to provide general advice and support on a day-to-day basis.