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Description:<\/strong><\/span><\/span> A health facilitator<\/strong> is a dedicated health professional who performs a similar role to a social prescribing practitioner<\/a>. The health facilitator<\/strong> is usually based in the GP practice and sees referred patients to help identify their needs and navigate the services available to them. For example, they may signpost<\/a> to community assets<\/a> or promote self-help groups or courses for specific issues. Unlike a social prescribing practitioner<\/a>, care navigator<\/a> or health trainer<\/strong> they also provide advice on exercise, nutrition, diet, weight management, managing chronic pain, and living with depression, and anxiety.<\/p>\n

Health trainers perform a similar role to health facilitators<\/strong>, working with GP practices to link patients to specific health-based interventions within the community and assist in their health progression. Health trainers<\/strong> do not have to be health professionals and do not give specific advice on areas of health. They may facilitate healthy, sustainable behaviour change by challenging and supporting a client to identify their values, develop their goals, and transform these goals into action.<\/p>\n

Health facilitators<\/strong> and health trainers<\/strong> may refer the individual onwards to a community-based social prescribing practitioner<\/a> who is better able to connect them to appropriate community assets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alternative Terms:<\/strong><\/span> health advisor, health broker, health coach, health connector, health mentor, health trainer, health and well-being coach, wellness coach<\/p>\n

Connected Terms: <\/strong><\/span>Active signposting<\/a>, building the practice<\/a>, care navigator<\/a>, community assets<\/a>, Sefydliadau\u2019r Sector Cymunedol a Gwirfoddol<\/a>, exercise referral<\/a>, nature-based interventions<\/a>, practice-managed schemes<\/a>, referral<\/a>, social prescribing pathway<\/a>, social prescribing practitioner<\/a>, statutory services<\/a>.<\/p>\n