Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
- 27,485 – 30,162 £ / Year
Job Summary
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
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- 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
Essential
- 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
Desirable
- Supervisory management skills
Knowledge
Essential
- 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
- IT skills/Qualification
Desirable
- 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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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Closing Date: 30 September 2025