Health and Wellbeing Social Prescribing Coach

1 month ago


Hanley, United Kingdom HBB PCN Full time

PCN Job Description

**Title: Health and Wellbeing Social Prescribing Coach**

**Responsible to**: PCN Manager

**Accountable to**: PCN Governing Board

**1. Job Role/Purpose**:
As a Health and Wellbeing Social Prescribing Coach, you will work as a key part of the primary care network (PCN) multi-disciplinary team. You will consider the whole person in addressing existing issues and encouraging the proactive prevention of new illnesses, promoting lifestyle medicine approaches. Health coaching resolves around using your coaching skills to support people with lower levels of patient activation to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to manage their health physical and mental wellbeing, whilst increasing their ability to access and utilise community support offers.

The post holders will work in partnership with their clinical and non-clinical colleagues, management support and the wider PCN to ensure the role delivers the best possible outcomes for our patients. The role is varied, and may include supporting self-management education, peer support, case management and facilitating group communication and negotiation skills. You will support personal choice and positive risk taking, while ensuring that patients understand the accountability of their own actions and decisions.

You will assist in the assessment of care needs and the formulation, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for individuals, carrying out all relevant forms of care under agreed levels of supervision. You will assist in engagement with services and assist in identifying strategies to support mental wellbeing and in the promotion of self-care and social inclusion. You will also focus on health promotion whereby you will educate patients about medical procedures and services and to encourage use of services by high risk patients.

As a whole your role and skills will support and encourage the prevention of developing further illness, or the deterioration of existing long term conditions.

**2* **. Key Duties & Responsibilities: *

**Health and Wellbeing and Social Prescribing Coaches will**:

- Coach and motivate patients through multiple sessions to identify their needs, set goals, and support them to implement and achieve their personalised health and wellbeing objectives. This will include sitting in consultation with a patient, may be remotely by telephone or video and providing them with advice, guidance and a management plan, personalised to their individual needs. It could include dietetics and healthy eating, lifestyle medicine and getting active, safe activities and personal coaching and motivation, including mental health support and guidance.
- Manage and prioritise a case-load, in accordance with the health and wellbeing needs of the patient population, including establishing and attaining goals that are important to the patient, and providing interventions to meet them.
- Ensure all interventions and coaching are designed to empower patients to be active participants in their own healthcare, empower them to manage their own health and wellbeing, and live independently.
- Support and deliver group consultations, with clinical and non-clinical colleagues, implementing new approaches to health across primary care and supporting individuals to access peer support.
- Work with the broader MDT to maximise the support available to patients, including the social prescribing team to connect patients to community-based activities which support them to take increased control of their health and wellbeing, and working with clinical colleagues to provide enhanced support to patients being supported through, identifying those who would benefit the most from health coaching.
- Work across the practices within the primary care network, including a combination of in person, telephone and video consultation.

**Patient Coaching, Care and Support**:

- Provide personalised coaching to patients which supports them to identify and meet their individual lifestyle, health and wellbeing goals.
- Deliver and facilitate group and peer sessions, including sessions focussed on specific lifestyle medicine approaches and long term conditions.
- Tailor health and lifestyle advice effectively to the individual (e.g. adapting physical activities for individuals with mobility issues).
- Build trust and respect with the person, providing non-judgemental and non-discriminatory support, respecting diversity and lifestyle choices. Work from a strength-based approach focusing on a person’s assets.
- Increase patient motivation to self-manage and adopt healthy behaviours;
- Work with patients with lower activation scores to understand and increase their level of knowledge, skills and confidence (their “Activation” level) to manage their own health and wellbeing, and increase their ability to access and utilise community support offers.
- Be a friendly, professional and engaging source of information about health, wellbeing and prevention a



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