Macmillan Health

Band 4 Macmillan Health and Wellbeing Coach (Cancer Prehabilitation Service)

This is a part-time post for 21.5 hours per week.

We are looking to recruit a Health and Wellbeing coach to support the development of our up and coming cancer prehabilitation service.

We strive to provide excellent quality cancer and holistic care to all of our patients, and our friendly Macmillan prehabilitation team play a key part in this.

As a Health & Wellbeing Coach, you will utilise your health coaching skills to support people on the Oncology surgical waiting list, to become optimised for surgery - this will include but not be limited to stopping smoking, reducing BMI, reducing alcohol consumption, managing long term conditions (diabetes and hypertension), increasing activity levels and sign posting to psychological support

Through continued personal development (CPD) you will build the knowledge, skills, and confidence to manage patients’ health and wellbeing, and support them to improve their surgical outcomes whilst also supporting them throughout their time on the waiting list. You may also provide access to self-management education, peer support, and social prescribing.

Training will be provided by the Royal Berkshire Hospital and the working environment is friendly and supportive.

An informal visit and/or phone call is strongly recommended in order to research the post and the team.

Health and wellbeing coaches take an approach that considers the whole person in addressing existing issues and encourages proactive prevention of new and existing illnesses. They use an approach that is non-judgemental, based on strong communication and negotiation skills, which supports personal choice and positive risk taking, addresses potential consequences and ensures patients understand the accountability of their own decisions, making the patient at the centre of every conversation.

You will strive to ensure high levels of patient and clinician satisfaction by being an accessible, customer focused and a knowledgeable point of contact.

To provide a consistent approach across the Trust, using Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to ensure that functions of the role are carried out correctly and within given timescales.

Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.

The CQC recently rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.

**Our values**: C ompassionate, A spirational, R esourceful, E xcellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented team to make this happen.

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

2. Provide personalised support to individuals to ensure that they are active participants in their own healthcare journey; empowering them to take more control / active role in managing their own health and wellbeing and improve their health outcomes.

3. Providing interventions.

4. Build and maintain relationships with local community groups, other health, social care, and voluntary sector providers.

5. Working with local community groups, other health, social care, and voluntary sector providers to connect patients to community-based services.

6. Supporting people to establish and attain goals set by the person based on what is important to them.

7. Working across the perioperative pathway to deliver specific health advice, where appropriate.

8. Use Trust IT systems and specialty databases to ensure relevant and accurate information is recorded.

9. Supporting colleagues to improve their skills and understanding of personalised care and behavioural approaches.

10. Undertaking all the necessary training and induction for the role.

11. Raising awareness within the trust of shared decision-making and decision support tools in supporting people in shared decision-making conversations.

12. Provide waiting well support to patients whilst they’re on the surgical waiting list, acting as a key point of contact.

13. Have appropriate check-ins to ensure the patients are supported to achieve their goals, and over all aims of improving their surgical outcomes.

14. Managing and prioritising a caseload, in accordance with the health and wellbeing needs of the patient group, through taking an approach that is non-judgemental, based on strong communication and negotiation skills, while considering the whole person when addressing existing issues. Where required and as appropriate, the Health and Wellbeing Coach will refer people back to other health professionals and services as appropriate.

15. Engage with a clinical supervisor to discuss