About this role
Job summary
The purpose of the role is to develop collaborative relationships and work in partnership with health, social care, and community and voluntary sector providers and multi disciplinary teams to holistically support patients wider health and well-being, public health, and contributing to the reduction of health inequalities; provide education and specialist expertise to PCN staff, supporting them to improve their skills and understanding of personalised care, behavioural approaches and ensuring consistency in the follow up of peoples goals with MDT input; work with the GPs and other primary care professionals within the PCN to identify and manage a caseload of patients, and where required and as appropriate, refer people back to other health professionals within the PCN, in accordance with the needs, priorities and any urgent support required by individuals.
If you would like the opportunity to make a difference in our community, come and join our Sutton PCNs Health Engagement Team as a Health & Wellbeing Coach. We are looking for dynamic and enthusiastic coaches, able to work full time or job share who will support people to take pro active steps to improve the way they manage their physical and mental health conditions, based on what matters to them, to improve their health outcomes and quality of life.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidates will be kind, reflective and self-aware, enjoying working with a wide range of people. They will have good communication and negotiation skills and able to provide a high quality, non judgemental service. They will be proactive with a flexible attitude, good team players and committed to developing themselves in this skilled role. Health and Wellbeing Coaches will have access to ongoing supervision, skills development, and support so they are able to continue developing and gain experience.
About us
Primary care networks (PCNs) form a key building block of the NHS long-term plan. Bringing general practices together to work at scale has been a policy priority for some years for a range of reasons, including improving the ability of practices to recruit and retain staff; to manage financial and estates pressures; to provide a wider range of services to patients and to more easily integrate with the wider health and care system.
While GP practices have been finding different ways of working together over many years (for example in super-partnerships, federations, clusters and networks) the NHS long-term plan and the new five-year framework for the GP contract, published in January 2019, put a more formal structure around this way of working, but without creating new statutory bodies.
Since 1 July 2019, all except a handful of GP practices in England have come together in around 1,300 geographical networks covering populations of approximately 30 to 50,000 patients. This size is consistent with the size of primary care homes, which exist in many places in the country, but much smaller than most GP federations. Around 50 networks, usually in very rural areas, will cover a population of less than 30,000, but most are bigger than 50,000.
Job description Job responsibilities
The main focus areas of the coaches will be to:
1) Develop collaborative relationships and work in partnership with health, social care, and community and voluntary sector providers and multi disciplinary teams to holistically support patients wider health and well-being, public health, and contributing to the reduction of health inequalities;
2) Provide education and specialist expertise to PCN staff, supporting them to improve their skills and understanding of personalised care, behavioural approaches and ensuring consistency in the follow up of peoples goals with MDT input.
3) Work with the GPs and other primary care professionals within the PCN to identify and manage a caseload of patients, and where required and as appropriate, refer people back to other health professionals within the PCN, in accordance with the needs, priorities and any urgent support required by individuals
4) To be the first point of contact at GP practices where coaching services will be delivered, and to receive and manage referrals. Using existing IT and MDT channels to screen patients, with an aim to identify those that would benefit most from health coaching
5) To provide personalised support to individuals, their families, and carers to support them to be active participants in their own healthcare; empowering them to manage their own health and wellbeing and live independently through:
coaching and motivating patients through multiple sessions to identify their needs, set goals, and supporting patients to achieve their personalised health and care plan objectives providing interventions such as self-management education and peer support supporting patients to establish and attain goals that are important to the patient supporting personal choice and positive risk taking while ensuring that patients understand the accountability of their own actions and decisions, thus encouraging the proactive prevention of further illnesses working in partnership with the social prescribing service to connect patients to community-based activities which support them to take increased control of their health and wellbeing; increasing patient motivation to self-manage and adopt healthy behaviours
6) To work with patients to help them understand their level of knowledge, skills and confidence when engaging with their health and well-being and subsequently supporting them in shared decision-making conversations.
7) utilise health coaching skills to support people with lower levels of activation to develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to manage page their health and wellbeing, whilst increasing their ability to access and utilise community support offers; and
8) To work as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team, participating in progress meetings, ensuring that the MDT is kept fully up-to-date with progress reports
9) To ensure that all complaints and compliments received are recorded in line with organisational policy.
10) To recognise the importance of safeguarding procedures within the project, and ensuring that any concerns, disclosures or allegations of abuse are immediately and correctly reported.
11) To embed equality, diversity and inclusion best practice into all aspects of work.
13) To work to the requirements of the organisations quality standards, and other service-specific quality accreditations as required, abiding by organisational ethos and principles
14) To attend and participate in regular supervision, appraisals, training and other internal meetings.
15) At all times provide a caring service and to treat everyone in a courteous and respectful manner.
16) Flexible to work out-of-hours as required according to service needs and demands.
17) Undertake additional duties as requested by the PCN executive board appropriate to the stated job purpose and skills. The above list of main tasks in this job description should, therefore, not be regarded as exclusive or exhaustive.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Enrolled in, undertaking or qualified from appropriate health coaching training covering topics outlined in the NHS England and NHS Improvement Implementation and Quality Summary Guide, with the training delivered by a training organisation listed by the Personalised Care Institute
Desirable
Knowledge of person-centred approaches Understanding of approaches to working with people with mental health needs Knowledge of Equal Opportunities, Diversity & Inclusion policies and practice Knowledge of Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults policies and procedures
Experience Essential
Experience working in health, community or voluntary sector Experience of working with vulnerable adults including people with mental health problems Experience of working with people facing a range of barriers and social issues Experience of working with individuals one to one and groups of people in different settings to help them achieve their goals Ability to engage a wide range of different people and to inspire them to make their own decision and take their own actions Experience of working in multi disciplinary teams
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name Sutton Primary Care Networks
Address Thomas Wall Centre
52 Benhill Avenue
Sutton
Surrey
SM1 4DP
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.suttonpcns.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)