Health and Wellbeing Coach- Aylesbury Central Primary Care Network Aylesbury, England
Job description
Aylesbury Central Primary Care Network
Salary: Up to £27,000 WTE depending on experience
Working hours: Up to 37.5 hours per week, would consider part-time minimum of 15 hours per week
NHS Pension
33 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
Employee Assistance Programme 24/7 Support
Please visit our website and find out more about our PCN, the staff that work for us and the services we provide to our local community: Home - Aylesbury Central PCN (acpcn.org)
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Health and Wellbeing Coach to join our developing multidisciplinary team. Aylesbury Central Primary Care Network (AC PCN) is made up of 2 GP practices based in the central Aylesbury with a patient population of 40,000+ patients.
We are looking for a Health & Wellbeing Coach to support our PCNs, utilising your health coaching skills to support people with lower levels of patient activation. You will develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to manage their health and wellbeing, whilst increasing their ability to access and utilise community support offers. They may also provide access to self-management education, peer support, and social prescribing.
Health and wellbeing coaches will take an approach that considers the whole person in addressing existing issues and encourages proactive prevention of new and existing illnesses. They will take an approach that is non-judgemental, based on strong communication and negotiation skill, 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 be an essential part of a dynamic and forward-thinking multidisciplinary team spanning PCNs, Community Services and the Local Authority, working to provide enhanced care to these groups of patients.
Training
Alongside mandatory training the PCN will also provide specific training for health coaching and will work with you over the coming 12 months to develop a portfolio of case studies through supervision with your peers and clinical supervisor.
This portfolio of evidence has been developed as a tool for health and wellbeing coaches, to support their continuous professional development (CPD) and a mechanism to evidence their knowledge, skills and competencies.
Primary Duties & areas of Responsibility:
Coach and motivate patients through multiple sessions to identify their needs, set goals, and support them to implement their personalised health and care plan.
Provide personalised support to individuals, their families and carers to ensure that they are active participants in their own healthcare; empowering them to take more control in managing their own health and wellbeing, to live independently and improve their health outcomes through:
1) Providing interventions
2) Supporting people to establish and attain goals set by the person based on what is important to them.
3) Working with the social prescribing service to connect them to community-based activities.
4) Working with the Long-Term Conditions (LTC) team to deliver specific health advice, where appropriate.
5) Working to increase the prevalence of treatable LTCs by undertaking health checks.
6) Inputting data including appropriate disease and referral coding
7) Provide support to local community groups and work with other health, social care and voluntary sector providers to support the patients; health and well-being holistically.
8) Help to establish and co-ordinate patient groups to aid self-management, peer support, and the creation of patient communities
11) Support colleagues to improve their skills and understanding of personalised care, behavioural approaches.
12) Undertake all the necessary training and induction for the role
13) Raise awareness within the PCN of shared decision making and decision support tools and supporting people in shared decision-making conversations.
15) Explore and support access to a personal health budget, where appropriate, for their care and support
16) Utilise existing IT and MDT channels to screen patients, with an aim to identify those that would benefit from health coaching
17) Work with the PCN and practices towards a number of different outcome and quality improvement measures including QOF, QIPP and IIF
FedBucks is a federation of 45 GP practices covering a population of over 485,000 patients across Buckinghamshire. We began in 2016 and now employ around 200 members of staff across our head office sites, and our planned and unplanned care services.
As a GP Federation, we are proud to represent our member practices and to champion primary care by working with local general practice and system partners in the provision of community-based healthcare services. We provide safe and compassionate care to our patients across our range of planned and unplanned healthcare services in Buckinghamshire and believe in continuous commitment to quality service delivery and positive patient outcomes.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves in ensuring our patients feel safe, supported, communicated with, and respected, at a time when they may be feeling vulnerable. Our vision is to provide high quality, seamless health care that enables people to lead healthier lives, whilst feeling supported and cared for.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: Up to £27,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- On-site parking
- Wellness programme
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Education:
- Diploma of Higher Education (preferred)
Experience:
- In motivational interviewing/coaching: 1 year (preferred)
- In delivering psychological interventions: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- Driving Licence (required)
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 26/05/2023
