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Volunteering opportunity

Coaching with lived experience for supporting self management of long term health conditions

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Health Connect Coaching
on 12th February 2026
Help type
  • Health & wellbeing
Age range
  • 18-25
  • 25-35
  • 35-50
  • 50-65
  • 65+
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  • All of Devon

Health connect Coaching helps support people to beter self-manage living with a long term physical health condition.

As a Health Connect Coach you will;

  • Have lived experience of living well with a long term physical health condition 
  • Be carefully matched with ‘peers’ based on shared lived experience and personal preferences
  • Deliver 1:1 coaching with peers online via ms teams or in person in the community
  • Have basic IT skills to access MS Teams online, emails and some admin to supporting peers, if needed, with questionnaires at the start and end of the programme and complete coaching logs after every coaching session 

Full training, ongoing support and supervision is provided for the role. All our coaches are recruited as volunteers for Torbay and South Devon NHS Trust.  

You can watch a short video about the Volunteer Health Connect Coach Role via this link https://vimeo.com/601017813/36f670a2a1

Or hear from some of our volunteer coach’s on this link Health Connect Coaching.mp4 (vimeo.com).

If you have any questions, are interested and want to apply for this role please get in touch  

Find out more information at https://www.torbayandsouthdevon.nhs.uk/services/health-connect-coaching-programme/

Contact us by email at:  tsdft.healthconnectcoaching@nhs.

Provided by NHS

Contact name
Health Connect Coaching
Email address
Telephone
07825792847 07825792847

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