Mental Health and Wellbeing Coach - Hull

Job overview

The role of the Mental Health and Well being Coach is to work as part of Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trusts YOURhealth service in Hull Primary Care Networks with the aim of improving the mental health and well being of the local community.

The role will support the Primary Care Networks within Hull and their 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 well being by addressing mental health, general health, well being 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 Well being Coach is a role integrated as part of the YOURhealth team whilst working clinically with the Primary Care Mental Health Network in Hull.

Main duties of the job

• To provide individual support for people within primary care to improve mental health and well being
• 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 well being
• Support access to  wider community  activities
• Support primary care and mental health colleges to address the wider determinate 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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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