Health Improvement Practitioner | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Two exciting opportunities have become available within Healthy Knowsley Service, within our Weight Management and Children Families Teams. The posts are an opportunity for someone who is passionate about reducing health inequalities and increasing health aspirations.

This role provides an opportunity for the postholder to develop their leadership skills as they will be providing line management support to staff within their pathway.

The postholder will communicate performance information to senior leaders through reports and verbal updates.

The role will focus on behaviour change and self-management approaches to help people make informed decisions around factors that influence health and other lifestyle choices. The Health Improvement Practitioner within our weight management service will hold a small caseload as well as line management responsibilities for our Wellbeing Coaches.

Within our children and families team, the Health Improvement Practitioner will line manage Sports and Lifestyle coaches as well as completing community engagement and delivering Making Every Contact Count training (MECC).

This is an opportunity for someone who is passionate about reducing health inequalities and increasing population health.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

empower them to identify, make and sustain positive lifestyle changes to improve health and wellbeing.

1. Understand how the social determinants of health and health inequalities can impact health and

1. Understand models of prevention in relation to mental health and wellbeing.
2. Understand and apply evidence-based methods of support and appreciate the value of evidence based methods in ensuring positive impact.
3. Support people to develop knowledge, skills and confidence in managing their own health and

1. Ensure health coaching is accessible, person-centred, culturally competent and adapted to effectively

1. Empower individuals to become motivated for health and wellbeing self-management and the

1. Collaboratively set meaningful and person-centred health and wellbeing goals and provide education

1. Allocate workload to Wellbeing Coaches/sport and lifestyle coaches using support system. Complete

1. Carry out all line management duties for Wellbeing Coaches/Sports and Lifestyle Coaches including

1. Utilise service technology/databases, i.e. Rio recording system to record and report on activity data.
2. Manage and prioritise own caseload and deliver behaviour change interventions within Healthy

1. Complete all administration processes relating to the health coaching offer in an accurate and timely

1. Maintain accurate, clear, concise and contemporaneous records as per Trust policy and communicate

1. Take appropriate immediate action following incidents and subsequent reporting and completion of

1. Deliver Making Every Contact Count (MECC) training as instructed by Senior Health Improvement

1. Provide advice and guidance to teams relating to referrals and other service processes where

1. Contribute to service reports for your workstream, interpreting service data and outlining plans to

1. Monitor KPI’s and Identify any performance concerns and escalate to Senior Health Improvement

1. Monitor data through regular data quality reviews. Highlight improvements required to Wellbeing

1. Quality assure delivery of interventions using methods such as observations, feedback, case note

1. Facilitate weekly safety huddles for Wellbeing Coaches/ sports and lifestyle coaches, mitigating risks

1. Identify gaps in service provision with the Senior Health Improvement Practitioner and develop

1. Actively research and disseminate up to date changes to policy and guidance impacting on service

1. Support the development of a comprehensive standard operating procedure, service/activity risk

1. Complete Stakeholder engagement to increase access to service through a partnership approach.
2. Contribute to the formulation and development of engagement plans with senior health

1. Proactively identify and engage in personal development and training opportunities to ensure safe

1. Follow all safeguarding and governance procedures local to The Life Rooms and Mersey Care NHS

1. Adhere to confidentiality at all times when working with individuals.

This advert closes on Sunday 6 Oct 2024