Health and Wellbeing Coach

**The postholder will be responsible for**: Managing and prioritising a caseload in accordance with the needs, priorities and any support requirements of individuals on the caseload Providing one-to-one health coaching support for people with one or more long term conditions, based on what is important to them, with the aim of: Improving peoples knowledge, confidence and skills-levels of patient activation Empowering people to improve their health outcomes and sense of wellbeing Preventing unnecessary reliance on clinical service Providing interventions such as self-management education and peer support Supporting people to establish and attain goals set by the person based on what is important to them. Working with the wider practice team and system partners to support the triaging of referrals that connect people to the right intervention/ community-based activities which support their health and wellbeing Working as part of a multidisciplinary multi agency team to promote Health Coaching and to be ambassadors for Personalised Care and Supported Self-Management, modelling the coaching approach in their work To attend and contribute to team meetings and events as required by the service To support the system they work within to develop pathways that are relevant to the needs of people who receive health coaching Provide support to local community groups and work with other health, social care and voluntary sector providers to support the patients health and wellbeing holistically Explore and support access to a personal health budget, where appropriate, for their care and support Utilise existing IT and MDT channels to screen patients, with an aim to identify those that would benefit from health coaching To work flexibly, adapting to the needs of the service and client group while maintaining the integrity of the role To collate service user experience and impact of health coaching as part of the delivery of personalised care To participate and collect data that measures the impact of health coaching as an intervention that supports embedding personalised care into local health systems.