NHS
PCN Health and Wellbeing Coach
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Job Description
- Req#: A5584-26-0001?language=en&page=854&sort=publicationDateDesc
- NVQ Level 3, Advanced level or equivalent qualifications or working towards
- Training in motivational coaching and interviewing or equivalent experience
- Experience of working directly in a community development context, adult health and social care, learning support or public health/health improvement (including unpaid work)
- Experience working in Primary Care
- Experience of supporting people, their families and carers in a related role (including unpaid work)
- Experience of supporting people with their mental health, either
- in a paid, unpaid or informal capacity
- Experience of working with the VCSE sector (in a paid or
- unpaid capacity), including with volunteers and small community groups
- NVQ Level 3, Advanced level or equivalent qualifications or working towards
- Training in motivational coaching and interviewing or equivalent experience
- Experience of working directly in a community development context, adult health and social care, learning support or public health/health improvement (including unpaid work)
- Experience working in Primary Care
- Experience of supporting people, their families and carers in a related role (including unpaid work)
- Experience of supporting people with their mental health, either
- in a paid, unpaid or informal capacity
- Experience of working with the VCSE sector (in a paid or
- unpaid capacity), including with volunteers and small community groups
Job summary
Morley and District Primary Care Network have an exciting opportunity for a Health and Wellbeing Coach to join the team.
This is a new and important role that will help shape and form our local healthcare offer in Morley, Leeds.
The suitable candidate should be passionate about making a difference in primary care and enjoy working as part of a multi-disciplinary team across services.
The role will involve working across the 6 practices we support. so the candidate must be able to be flexible and adapt to different businesses
These include:
Windsor House Group Practice, Fountain Medical Centre, Leigh View Medical Practice, South Queen Street Medical Centre, Gildersome health centre or Drighlington Medical Centre.
Please note, Health and Wellbeing Coaches in PCNs must complete aPersonalised Care Institute (PCI) accredited four-day health coaching trainingas themandatory minimum standard. This training, which can be found throughaccredited training providers on the PCI site, should be completed prior to seeing patients.
Main duties of the job
Health and wellbeing coaches are non-clinical, personalised care roles. They work with people with physical and/or mental health conditions, people with long-term conditions and those at risk of developing them. They focus on improving health related outcomes by working with people to set personalised goals. Health and wellbeing coaches offer people support to increase their self-efficacy, motivation, and commitment to make changes to their lifestyle and improve their health. Health coaches are experts in behaviour change, working in a person-centred approach.
The expectation of the role is to assist patients either face to face or on the phone (patient dependant) this will involve assessing the patient in a holistic approach to manage their long term conditions through motivational coaching and behaviour change management.
You willCoach and motivate patients through multiple sessions to identify their needs, set goals, and support them to implement their personalised health and care plan. You willProvide 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 manging their own health and physical wellbeing, to live independently, and improve their health outcomes through joint care planning.
About us
We are a 6 practice PCN with approximately 65,000 patients. We are rapidly developing our multi-disciplinary workforce, embedding our roles, developing our team that makes a real difference to our patients and our practices
Details
Date posted
16 March 2026
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience ARRS Funding
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference number
A5584-26-0001
Job locations
Shenstone House Surgery
Elland Road
Morley
Leeds
LS27 7PX
South Queen Street Medical Centre
South Queen Street
Morley
Leeds
LS27 9EW
Leigh View Medical Centre
Bradford Road
Tingley
Wakefield
West Yorkshire
WF3 1RQ
The Medical Centre
Station Road
Drighlington
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD11 1JU
Fountain Medical Centre
Little Fountain Street
Morley
Leeds
LS27 9EN
Windsor House Surgery
2 Corporation Street
Morley
Leeds
LS27 9NB
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
Health and wellbeing coaches are non-clinical, personalised care roles. They work with people with physical and/or mental health conditions, people with long-term conditions and those at risk of developing them. They focus on improving health related outcomes by working with people to set personalised goals. Health and wellbeing coaches offer people support to increase their self-efficacy, motivation, and commitment to make changes to their lifestyle and improve their health. Health coaches are experts in behaviour change, working in a person-centred approach.
The expectation of the role is to assist patients either face to face or on the phone (patient dependant) this will involve assessing the patient in a holistic approach to manage their long term conditions through motivational coaching and behaviour change management.
You will Coach and motivate patients through multiple sessions to identify their needs, set goals, and support them to implement their personalised health and care plan. You will 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 manging their own health and physical wellbeing, to live independently, and improve their health outcomes through joint care planning.
Referrals' will be sent to you from other professionals of patients who could benefit from health and wellbeing coaching, it will then build you a case load of patients you will support over an agreed period of time.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
Job responsibilities
Health and wellbeing coaches are non-clinical, personalised care roles. They work with people with physical and/or mental health conditions, people with long-term conditions and those at risk of developing them. They focus on improving health related outcomes by working with people to set personalised goals. Health and wellbeing coaches offer people support to increase their self-efficacy, motivation, and commitment to make changes to their lifestyle and improve their health. Health coaches are experts in behaviour change, working in a person-centred approach.
The expectation of the role is to assist patients either face to face or on the phone (patient dependant) this will involve assessing the patient in a holistic approach to manage their long term conditions through motivational coaching and behaviour change management.
You will Coach and motivate patients through multiple sessions to identify their needs, set goals, and support them to implement their personalised health and care plan. You will 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 manging their own health and physical wellbeing, to live independently, and improve their health outcomes through joint care planning.
Referrals' will be sent to you from other professionals of patients who could benefit from health and wellbeing coaching, it will then build you a case load of patients you will support over an agreed period of time.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
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Experience
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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
Morley and District PCN
Address
Shenstone House Surgery
Elland Road
Morley
Leeds
LS27 7PX
Employer's website
Employer details
Employer name
Morley and District PCN
Address
Shenstone House Surgery
Elland Road
Morley
Leeds
LS27 7PX
Employer's website
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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