Mental Health & Wellbeing Coach: Sponsorship Available

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications, education and training

Essential

  • A good understanding of physical to Foundation Degree equivalent to diploma level including health promotion, and mental health including policy/legislation
  • IT skills/Qualification
  • 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

  • A broad understanding of relevant policy, legislation drivers and their application to clinical and service area
  • Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/ audit within identified clinical area

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrable experience of working within the identified service area (mental health/physical health)
  • Knowledge/experience of prevention and mental health
  • Understanding of health promotion and behaviour change
  • Managing a caseload
  • Minimum 1 year facilitation/coaching experience in mental health

Skills, Competencies and Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Evidence of continued professional development documented through Trust PDR/KSF/Supervision processes and personal portfolio

Desirable

  • Supervisory management skills

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

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 29 April 2026

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