Mental Health & Wellbeing Coach

Job overview

The role of the Mental Health and Well-being Coach is to work as part of the mental health primary care networks and to work across the interface between primary care and secondary mental health services with the aim of improving the mental health and well-being of our communities.

The role will support individuals to move from surviving to thriving by helping people to 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. The role of the Mental Health and Well-being Coach will be integrated as part of the Prevention, Well- being and Recovery Directorate and will focus on action planning and goal setting for up to 8 sessions over a 12 week period to support behaviour change.

Main duties of the job

• To contact all patients to discuss a low to moderate mental health issue or concern within the same week of contact but ideally within 72 hours.
• To provide individual support for people within primary care to explore ways of improving mental health and well-being.
• The appointment will follow a structured template that includes both PHQ-9 and GAD-7 questionnaires, to determine what service is most appropriate with presenting factors.
• Support people to make informed choices about their health and well-being, which may include improving the levels of physical activity, promoting a healthier diet and improving mental well-being.
• Facilitate collective action, support and advice to people within local communities in order to reduce health inequalities, whilst responding to identified health needs through one-to-one support.
• Utilise the Recovery Star to develop individual recovery and support   planning and goal setting, including working with the team directly across the PCN network.
• Promote effective and efficient working practices across the team to achieve measurable outcomes.
• Ensure performance information is collected accurately and timely to enable accurate and valid reports to be produced.
• To actively support the primary care mental health network in fulfilling all contractual requirements of service delivery.
• Safely and effectively manage own caseload under supervision of Mental health network leads.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information with regards to this vacancy please see the attached Job description and Person Specification.