Health & Wellbeing Coach - Waiting Well

As a Health & Wellbeing Coach you will work as a key part of the Primary Care Network PCN Multi-disciplinary team, you will consider the whole person in addressing existing issues and encouraging the proactive prevention of new illnesses, promoting lifestyle changes and adaptations.

Health Coaching revolves around using your motivational interviewing and coaching skill to support people with lower levels of patient activation to develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence to manage their own health and wellbeing whilst increasing their ability to access and utilise community support offers.

This is a new role as part of an existing team at SGPA where you will support a city-wide Waiting Well programme offering targeted support to targeted groups of patients waiting for surgery in Sunderland. This will involve delivering group sessions and 1-1 support to patients covering a range of health and wellbeing subjects to ensure patients are fit and fully prepared for surgery.

The post holder will be responsible for the collection of relevant health data and measures to feed into the wider project to evidence patient impact.

For a second year in a row, Sunderland GP Alliance has been listed in The Sunday Times Best Places to Work and Better Health At Work - Gold Award, offering 33 days annual leave plus many other benefits

Sunderland GP Alliance began in 2015 and as a limited company we have grown to over 200 employees today. We are innovative in responding to the changing needs of a 21st century health care system. With a not-for-profit ethos people are at the heart of everything we do. Whether it is a patient being seen at one of our GP practices or out of hours service, or the people at the heart of the Alliance who make it a great friendly place to work. We want people to realise their potential inside and outside of work which is why we support your development.