Employer: West London NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Trust Headquarters
Town: Southall
Salary: £31,081 - £33,665 Per Annum Inclusive of HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 28/04/2025 23:59
Interview date: 06/05/2025
Diabetes Health and Wellness Coach
Band 4
West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.
Job overview
To provide health improvement expertise and support people with Type 2 Diabetes through delivery of healthy living interventions. The Health Coach will help people gain and use the knowledge, skills, and confidence to become active participants in their care so that they can reach their self-identified health and wellbeing goals.
Main duties of the job
1. Supporting patients with 1-1 interventions for health coaching to support self-management of type 2 diabetes using coaching models and motivational interviewing.
2. Attend monthly cooking classes with patients.
3. Support weekly walking groups.
4. Work alongside primary, specialist care, physical, mental health services, and social care services.
5. Utilize Motivational Interviewing and other behavior change strategies to increase patients’ skills and confidence to manage their own condition and set achievable goals.
6. Provide weight management, physical activity, smoking cessation, and alcohol awareness support.
7. Establish and maintain strong and effective partnerships with teams within partner organizations who can influence and deliver the Health Improvement and Inequalities work streams.
8. Provide Health Education to improve health and encourage healthy lifestyles and promote behavioral change.
Working for our organisation
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Health Trainer, Health Coach qualification or equivalent knowledge.
* Background in Health / Social Care or community development.
* Training in Diabetes education or management.
* At least two years’ experience of working in health improvement, public health or a relevant health improvement area.
* Full driving license.
Experience
* Experience of planning, developing, and facilitating sessions to service users.
* Experience of working with groups and facilitating group development.
* Able to be trained and then deliver appropriate training (train the trainer module).
* Partnership working, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
* Experience of working with local community groups and health professionals.
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
* Experience of planning and organizing events and delivering against projects.
* Experience of providing one-to-one and group intervention for healthy lifestyle.
* Experience of delivering smoking cessation, weight management, healthy eating, and alcohol awareness support.
* Working with diabetes patients and patients with other long-term conditions.
Skills
* Excellent communication skills including written, verbal, and use of IT.
* Motivational Interviewing and coaching skills.
* Ability to analyze and interpret information about health and well-being.
* Ability to undertake needs assessment activity with communities.
* Ability to communicate with a wide range of people about health and well-being.
* Ability to apply evidence-based knowledge into practice.
* Ability to develop and maintain effective collaborative working.
* Ability to work in partnership with individuals and communities to improve health.
* Ability to plan, implement, and review projects and work streams.
* Ability to provide leadership for health improvement within projects, work streams, and working groups.
* Ability to manage and evaluate own activities.
* Ability to organize work under pressure and use your own initiative.
* Ability and willingness to work evenings and weekends as required.
As an employee of West London NHS Trust, you have a responsibility to maintain a sound understanding of, and a commitment to uphold the National Health Service values and principles set out in the NHS Constitution.
West London NHS Trust is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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