What is a Health and Wellbeing coach?

Health & Wellbeing Coaches (HWC) can support people with lifestyle advice to help with:

• Improving diet, increasing physical activity
• Reducing smoking and alcohol intake.
• Support to prevent and/or manage long term health conditions through lifestyle behaviour change.
• Helping individuals to take responsibility of their own health and individual health behaviours.

This will be done by:

• 12 week personal health plans. Health & Wellbeing Coaches (HWC) will develop bespoke personal health plans with continued support over the 12 week period. The first appointment is 1 hour, followed by half-hour reviews every fortnight.
• Goalsetting to facilitate behaviour change.
• Nutritional advice and education
• Lifestyle advice and education