Social Prescriber
Job Description
Job summary
This role is working for SYMPHONIE PCN (Primary Care Network) across a group of 5 GP surgeries, based mainly in the West Hull area. The main base is located at the Wilberforce Health Centre with some clinics held at the surgeries. You will be a part of team working to support patients in our PCN.
Social prescribing empowers people to take control of their health and wellbeing working alongside existing social prescribers and health and wellbeing coaches.
Link Workers support existing voluntary, community and social enterprise groups to be accessible and sustainable and help people to start new community groups, working collaboratively with all local partners.
The service provides a one-stop connector service for a wide range of community related support with an emphasis on loneliness and isolation, and on the determinants of health, particularly low income, employment, learning, support, housing, debt, financial management and domestic abuse. Link Workers play a pivotal role by developing trusting relationships and providing personalised care and support plans.
Main duties of the job
The candidate will work as part of the team to support referrals from surgeries on loneliness and isolation, and on the determinants of health, particularly low income, employment, learning, support, housing, debt, financial management and domestic abuse amongst many things. You will liaise with patients, community providers and the GP surgeries.
Link workers play a pivotal role by developing trusting relationship's and providing patient personalised care and support plans.
Please see Job description attached.
About us
The Social Prescribing team currently consists of a 2 social prescribers, with one a team leader, and this will be an addition to the current team.
The Social Prescribing team works closely with Health Well Being coaches as well as with all PCN team members and member practices.
Benefits: Agenda for change terms and conditions and if eligible NHS Pension or NEST pension.
Job responsibilities
Receive referrals directly from patients within the Symphonie PCN catchment area, from the GP surgeries, health care professionals and from a wide range of agencies, for example but not limited to, pharmacies, multi-disciplinary teams, hospital discharge teams, fire service, police and VCSE organisations.
Provide personalised support to individuals, their families and carers to take control of their wellbeing, live independently and improve their health outcomes. Develop trusting relationships by giving people time and focus on what matters to me. Take a holistic approach, based on the persons priorities and the wider determinants of health. Co- produce a personalised support plan to improve health and wellbeing, introducing or reconnecting people to community groups and statutory services. The role will require managing and prioritising your own caseload, in accordance with the needs, priorities and any urgent support required by individuals. It is vital that you have a strong awareness and understanding of when it is appropriate or necessary to refer people back to other health professionals/agencies, when what the person needs is beyond the scope of the link worker role.
Draw on and increase the strengths and capacities of local communities, enabling local VCSE organisations and community groups to receive social prescribing referrals. Ensure they are supported, have basic safeguarding processes for vulnerable individuals and can provide opportunities for the person to develop friendships, a sense of belonging, and build knowledge, skills and confidence.
Work together with local partners to collectively ensure local VCSE organisations and community groups are sustainable and that community assets are nurtured, by making them aware of small grants or micro-commissioning if available, including providing support to set up new community groups and services, where gaps are identified in local provision.
See attached Job Description for more details.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of dealing with vulnerable patients.
- Recent and ongoing experience of working directly in either community development context, NHS, general practice or adult health and social care, learning support, public health/health improvement or generalist advice service delivery.
- A DBS will be required.
- Please see Job description for full essential criteria.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Wolseley Medical Centre
Address
Londesborough Street
Hull
HU3 1DS
