Mental Health and Wellbeing Coach - Harthills Primary Care Network

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust; Cottingham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A health and social care Trust in England is seeking a Mental Health and Wellbeing Coach to enhance community mental health. Responsibilities include providing individual support, managing a caseload, and facilitating goal-setting. The ideal candidate will have a foundation degree or equivalent, with at least a year of coaching experience in mental health. This role involves multi-agency working and aims to empower individuals in their health journey.

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year facilitation/coaching experience in mental health.
• Successful completion of foundation degree equivalent to diploma level or NVQ 3 plus significant experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide individual support for people within primary care to improve mental health and wellbeing.
• Support people to utilize self-help tools for action planning.
• Undertake multi-agency working.

Skills

Demonstrable experience in mental health

Understanding of health promotion

Caseload management

Coaching experience in mental health

Education

Foundation degree or NVQ 3

Job description

Mental Health and Wellbeing Coach - Harthills Primary Care Network

The role of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Coach is to work as part of Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trusts YOURhealth service in the Harthills Primary Care Network locality with the aim of improving the mental health and wellbeing of the local community.

The role will support the Harthills Primary Care Networks and patients within the practices to access low to moderate mental health support through 1-1 support to help them move from surviving to thriving. The aim being to help people feel in control of their health and wellbeing by addressing mental health, general health, wellbeing and inclusion needs using a behaviour change approach and active recovery methodology including the Recovery Star with continuous goal setting and action planning throughout their time with the service.

The role of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Coach is a role integrated as part of the YOURhealth team whilst working clinically with the Primary Care Mental Health Network in Harthills.

Main duties of the job

• To provide individual support for people within primary care to improve mental health and wellbeing
• Support people to utilise self-help and facilitated tools such as the recovery star to aid individual action planning and goal setting with measurements of recovery throughout.
• Support people to make informed choices about their health and wellbeing
• Support access to wider community activities
• Support primary care and mental health colleges to address the wider determinates of health
• Undertake multi agency working
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with local communities primary care , secondary mental health service, VCSE sector, recovery college, Social Prescribers etc.
• Ensure performance information is collected accurately and timely
• To actively support the Primary Care Mental Health Network in fulfilling all contractual requirements
• Safely and effectively manage own caseload under supervision of Mental health network leads

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good, health and social care Trust that delivers care to communities in Hull, East Yorkshire, Scarborough and Ryedale and Whitby. We deliver safe, effective, and integrated health services that improve the physical, mental, and social health and wellbeing of our patients and service users.

To find out more about our wide range of services including mental health, learning disabilities, children and young people service, Forensic, Community and Primary Care visit our website humber.nhs.uk/Services

You will join our team of over 3600 colleagues that work together across our wide geography and specialties to change lives every day. We're extremely proud of our Trust community and we know you can expect to receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need from your new team to get you started.

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development to ensure the delivery of high quality, person-centred and compassionate care to patients. We value our staff and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills and competencies to deliver outstanding care.

The Trust recognises the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Job responsibilities

For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Experience

• Demonstrable experience of working within the identified service area (mental health/physical health)
• Understanding of health promotion and behaviour change
• Managing a caseload
• Minimum 1 year facilitation/coaching experience in mental health

Qualifications

• Successful completion of foundation degree equivalent to diploma level OR NVQ 3 plus significant experience of working with patients with physical and mental needs demonstrating sound use of techniques and good practice
• Supervisory management skills

Knowledge

• A good understanding of physical to Foundation Degree equivalent to diploma level including health promotion, and mental health including policy/legislation
• Knowledge/experience of prevention and mental health
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area
• A broad understanding of relevant policy, legislation drivers and their application to clinical and service area

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.