Job Description

Health Coach – Local Doctors - Sylvia Park and White Cross - Lunn Avenue (Part-time)

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• Are you passionate about making a real difference in people’s lives?
• Do you want to use your lived experience to support wellbeing and create healthier futures?
• Are you culturally and linguistically equipped to work with our vibrant and diverse communities across Tāmaki Makaurau?
• Do you enjoy variety, teamwork, and supporting people earlier in their health journey?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

We invite you to join our dynamic and growing Wellness Support Team (WST) — a group of 90+ dedicated professionals leading the way in primary care wellbeing support for our multicultural communities.

Tāmaki Health's “Wellness Support Team" (WST) was established in 2012 and is led by pioneering primary mental health psychiatrist Dr David Codyre. Our team won the best mental health programme award at the 2021 New Zealand Primary Healthcare Awards. We provided holistic support to people (all ages) and whānau with psychosocial, mental, physical and wellbeing needs.

Tāmaki Health is an innovative and rapidly growing primary care network serving high-needs populations in the greater Auckland region and beyond. Tāmaki Health's mission is to be the leading primary healthcare provider in the provision of affordable, accessible, culturally competent and high quality health care services to all New Zealand communities. Tāmaki Health promotes strong adherence to its organisational values. We believe we are here to serve, so we work as one, strive for a better tomorrow, be available, take care of each other and for the better good.

About the Role

Health Coaches are based in GP clinics working alongside GP’s, Nurses and the Primary Care team.

Working Hours: 32 hours per week

As a Health Coach, you will:

• Provide brief, targeted Health Coaching to individuals and whānau focusing on managing long term conditions and wellbeing
• Support and promote wellbeing for patients as part of routine GP care.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with your clinic.
• Work alongside Health Improvement Practitioners (HIPs) and a wider multidisciplinary team.
• Receive full training, including ongoing supervision and mentoring.

What You’ll Bring

• Lived experience of managing long term conditions and wellbeing for yourself or your whanau.
• Experience working with whaiora in a health/wellbeing related setting.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• A passion for making a difference in the lives of our patients
• An interest in holistic healthcare
• Relationship management skills
• Cultural and/or linguistic diversity.
• Confidence using computers and a willingness to learn new systems.
• A passion for improving wellbeing through coaching practices.
• At least a secondary school qualification.
• Ability to work within evidence-based models of care.
• Experience and/or enthusiasm for delivering group programmes.
• Holding a health related qualification or prior experience or working in a healthcare setting an advantage

What we offer

• A supportive, collaborative multidisciplinary team environment.
• Close connection with GPs, nurses, therapists, psychologists, and HIPs.
• Regular supervision, mentoring, and professional development opportunities.
• Opportunities to contribute to the growth and innovation of the service.
• Training in new models of engagement and brief interventions — with opportunities to become a trainer.
• An exciting and stimulating role in a dynamic primary care setting.

Interested? We'd love to connect!

Please note: This role may be filled prior to the advertised closing date, so early applications are encouraged