• Job Description

  Req#: B0611-25-0016?language=en&page=227&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Health & Wellbeing Coach to join our integrated personalised care team, led by our SPLW & Care Co-ordinator Team Lead. You will join our growing PCN multi-disciplinary workforce which includes SPLWs, Care Co-ordinators, Student Nursing Associates, Clinical Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technician, First Contact Physiotherapists, Advanced Nurse Practitioners and Primary Mental Health Nurses.

  In your role as a Health & Wellbeing Coach, you will work as part of the Sedgefield North PCN Integrated Personalised Care Team, alongside three other SPLWs, four Care Co-ordinators. The posts are hosted by St Andrews Medical Practice, Spennymoor, but will support patients across the five practices within the PCN.

  Main duties of the job

  The Health & Wellbeing Coach will be responsible for delivering group and one to one sessions on healthy eating, physical activity and health and well-being to meet with personalised care plans. The coach will play a critical role in engaging patients and use health coaching techniques to support them to take an active role in their health.

  You will work in a variety of venues in general practice and the community. You will work collaboratively as part of our friendly personalised care team and with our individual practices and with professional links. Teamwork, flexibility, enthusiasm, and the ability to prioritise tasks effectively are essential skills.

  We are committed to the ongoing development of our team, which includes mandatory and developmental training for all our staff. Team members are encouraged to highlight any training they feel would benefit them in the achievement of their role.

  About us

  Sedgefield North Primary Care Network is an innovative, dynamic PCN comprising 5 local GP Practices based in Spennymoor, Ferryhill & Chilton, Sedgefield and West Cornforth with a population of over 58,000 patients. We are continually seekingnew ways to support and improve local healthcare services for our patient population.

  Details

  Date posted

  28 May 2025

  Pay scheme

  Other

  Salary

  £27,485 a year

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours

  Reference number

  B0611-25-0016

  Job locations

  St. Andrews Medical Practice

  St. Andrews Lane

  Spennymoor

  County Durham

  DL16 6QA

  
  

  Ferryhill Medical Practice

  Durham Road

  Ferryhill

  County Durham

  DL178JJ

  
  

  West Cornforth Medical Centre

  Reading Street

  West Cornforth

  Ferryhill

  County Durham

  DL179LH

  
  

  Bishop's Close Medical Practice

  Bishops Close

  Spennymoor

  County Durham

  DL16 6ED

  
  

  Skerne Medical Group

  Front Street

  Sedgefield

  Stockton-on-tees

  Cleveland

  TS21 3BN

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  We are looking for an individual who will play a role in engaging patients and use health coaching techniques to support them to take an active role in their health and wellbeing. The Health and Wellbeing Coach is responsible for delivering group and one to one sessions to improve patient health outcomes.

  The coach will play a critical role in engaging patients and encouraging them on the benefits of making changes. This is a new role in our PCN and as such the coach will be able to help shape and develop the role based on their particular passion such as, healthy eating, physical activity, improving mental health etc, using health coaching techniques.

  The health and wellbeing coach will work closely with those of low to medium complexity who will usually have 1 or more long term conditions.

  The post holder will have a key role in helping to raise the local populations awareness of the support groups and opportunities available to assist them in achieving their health and wellbeing goals.

  As a whole, your role and skills will support and encourage the prevention of developing further illness, or the deterioration of existing long-term conditions.

  See Job Description for full responsibilities.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  We are looking for an individual who will play a role in engaging patients and use health coaching techniques to support them to take an active role in their health and wellbeing. The Health and Wellbeing Coach is responsible for delivering group and one to one sessions to improve patient health outcomes.

  The coach will play a critical role in engaging patients and encouraging them on the benefits of making changes. This is a new role in our PCN and as such the coach will be able to help shape and develop the role based on their particular passion such as, healthy eating, physical activity, improving mental health etc, using health coaching techniques.

  The health and wellbeing coach will work closely with those of low to medium complexity who will usually have 1 or more long term conditions.

  The post holder will have a key role in helping to raise the local populations awareness of the support groups and opportunities available to assist them in achieving their health and wellbeing goals.

  As a whole, your role and skills will support and encourage the prevention of developing further illness, or the deterioration of existing long-term conditions.

  See Job Description for full responsibilities.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Educated to A level/BTEC or equivalent experience in relevant field

  Desirable

  • Health/Social Care Degree

  Experience

  Essential

  • Experience working in health and wellbeing, public or voluntary sector or leisure and fitness environment
  • Experience in a customer facing role
  • Experience delivering lifestyle change / brief interventions
  • Experience working in a health trainer / advisor role
  • Excellent people skills, interacting with all types of people and able to change communication style to fit the person
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team
  • Comfortable working with people from public, private and voluntary organisations
  • Highly organised, managing time, resources and competing priorities in a structured and efficient way
  • Highly motivated and willing to go out of your way to help clients
  • Creative problem solver and willing to search for hard to find information
  • Good IT and administrative skills
  • Experience of working on SystmOne (clinical system)
  • Good understanding of health issues and the wider determinants of health and wellbeing
  • Knowledge of social prescribing
  • Understanding of health and social wellbeing and community/local/national services
  • Using own initiative

  Desirable

  • Experience working in partnership with community organisations
  • Experience promoting and / or marketing services to other organisations / the public

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Educated to A level/BTEC or equivalent experience in relevant field

  Desirable

  • Health/Social Care Degree

  Experience

  Essential

  • Experience working in health and wellbeing, public or voluntary sector or leisure and fitness environment
  • Experience in a customer facing role
  • Experience delivering lifestyle change / brief interventions
  • Experience working in a health trainer / advisor role
  • Excellent people skills, interacting with all types of people and able to change communication style to fit the person
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team
  • Comfortable working with people from public, private and voluntary organisations
  • Highly organised, managing time, resources and competing priorities in a structured and efficient way
  • Highly motivated and willing to go out of your way to help clients
  • Creative problem solver and willing to search for hard to find information
  • Good IT and administrative skills
  • Experience of working on SystmOne (clinical system)
  • Good understanding of health issues and the wider determinants of health and wellbeing
  • Knowledge of social prescribing
  • Understanding of health and social wellbeing and community/local/national services
  • Using own initiative

  Desirable

  • Experience working in partnership with community organisations
  • Experience promoting and / or marketing services to other organisations / the public

  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

  South Durham Health CIC

  Address

  St. Andrews Medical Practice

  St. Andrews Lane

  Spennymoor

  County Durham

  DL16 6QA

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.southdurhamhealth.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  South Durham Health CIC

  Address

  St. Andrews Medical Practice

  St. Andrews Lane

  Spennymoor

  County Durham

  DL16 6QA

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.southdurhamhealth.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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