Overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a part-time Health Coach to join us on a fixed-term basis for 12 months. Would you like to work within Primary Care and Mental Health, a service delivered in partnership with MIND and SHSC, which ensures that the people of Sheffield have excellent local, joined up, sustainable primary and community mental health support to enable them to live their lives to the full?
The job purpose is to contribute to improving health and reducing diseases associated with lifestyle, by supporting people to develop healthier behaviours and contributing to delivery of the service aims and standards in line with national and Primary and Community Mental Health Transformation (PCMHT) programme priorities. Where appropriate focusing on the wider determinants of health and facilitating access to community based support to help people self-care and address issues of loneliness and isolation.
Responsibilities
* Identifying and making contact with patients to encourage uptake of NHS physical health checks.
* Completing physical health checks including drawing blood from patients.
* Working with a defined population using behaviour change techniques with individuals and groups to empower them to identify, make, and sustain positive lifestyle changes to improve their health and wellbeing.
* The post holder will play a crucial role in coordinating and supporting the development and implementation of the project and completing some health checks on a citywide basis.
* Maintaining ongoing liaison with key stakeholders as part of a partnership approach.
* Demonstrating effective communication with patients.
Primary Care Sheffield (PCS) is a GP-led organisation. Our shareholders are 75 GP practices in Sheffield covering over half a million patients. As well as providing a unified voice for general practice in the city, we play an active role both within our Accountable Care Partnership (ACP) and the wider South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Integrated Care System (ICS).
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