Health Trainers: Getting them Going in Gateshead Getting them Going for You Gateshead Health Trainer

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Health Trainers Getting them Going in
GatesheadGetting them Going for
You?Gateshead Health Trainer Partnership

• Pat Elms
• Nicoll Loyd
• Trevor Hopkins

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In the next 15 minutes.

• Getting to Go
• Pre Go
• Go

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Health Trainers.the essence?

• New and complementary role
• Diminishing health in-equalities
• 11 engagement
• Supporting individual behaviour change
• advice from on high to support from next door

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Getting to Go What did it involve?
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Pre GoThe Early Adopter Phase
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An ethos.

• Analysis
• Listening and understanding
• Engagement
• Partnership
• Learning
• Leadership

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Being curious..

• What other information?
• How do you feel about this initiative?
• What are the benefits?
• Your reservations?
• The possibilities the role creates?
• Advice you would like to give the project team?
• The issues they should be considering?
• What is your role in this?

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Holding a role

• How do you or your service benefit from the role?
• As a local person working with a health trainer,
  draw/describe their attributes and how they will
  work with you?
• As a health trainer, what will your mentor do and
  how will they approach their work?
• If you are a mentor for a health trainer, what
  qualities and skills would you expect to help
  develop?

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The Learning Programme

• Improving own skills knowledge and practice
• Promoting Health and wellbeing
• Effecting individual behaviour change
• Effective sector and agency working
• Developing working relationships with communities
• Social marketing

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Issues raised by pilot-testers

• Security of funding
• Operational issues
• Employment flexibility
• Boundaries
• Support and on-going development
• How I show what I can do?

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Go
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For April 2006.

• Competencies
• Evaluated education programme
• Service model
• Job description
• An appreciation of the mentoring/support role
• A system with a heightened awareness
• A group of highly motivated people

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Some tips to pass on..?

• Harness the imagination of the many
• New role and environment both matter
• Support each other in risk taking
• Traditional forms of meeting can realise
  traditional results!
• The tensions in this can be creative!
• Keep your eye on the real ball game

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