Job summary
South Bucks Primary Care Network
Base: Threeways Surgery, Stoke Poges, SL2 4AZ
Salary: In the range of £25,000 - £28,000 dependant on experience
Working hours: Full Time hours- job share will also be considered
NHS Pension
33 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
Employee Assistance Programme 24/7 Support
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Social Prescribing Link Worker who is passionate about empowering people to take control of their health to join our existing developing team within our PCN, we provide high quality support to our patients and are looking for an enthusiastic, empathetic individual to join the team to support us in achieving this.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for someone to be proactive in getting to know and support our local community assets and should be motivated by helping people to become active and independent members of their local community.
Also have experience of working positively with people facing complex social and emotional challenges, and some knowledge of solution-focussed coaching approaches. The successful candidate will be working with people from diverse cultural and social backgrounds and will need to work confidently and effectively in a diverse, and sometimes challenging environment.
Social prescribing empowers people to take control of their health and wellbeing through referral to link workers who give time, focus on what matters to me and take a holistic approach to an individuals health and wellbeing, connecting people to community groups and statutory services for practical and emotional support. Link workers also support existing groups to be accessible and sustainable and help people to start new community groups, working collaboratively with all local partners. Social prescribing link workers (SPLW) will work as a key part of the primary care network (PCN) multi-disciplinary team.
About us
FedBucks is a not-for-profit GP federation of 47 GP practices covering apopulation of over 500,000 patients across Buckinghamshire. We began in 2016and now employ around 300 members of staff at our head office site, and acrossour planned and unplanned care services.
As a GP Federation and Social Enterprise, we are proud to represent ourmember practices and to champion primary care by working with local generalpractice and system partners in the provision of community-based healthcareservices. We are dedicated to providing safe and compassionate care to ourpatients across our range of planned and unplanned healthcare services inBuckinghamshire and believe in continuous commitment to quality servicedelivery and positive patient outcomes.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves inour purpose when enabling excellent patient care and supporting generalpractice.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities
1. To work with the Social Prescribers, to promote and develop the service
2. To manage a caseload of patients maintaining accurate records of each contact and share information appropriately
3. To undertake patient assessments as deemed appropriate, mainly in the patients home
4. To make referrals or signpost to statutory and voluntary services - following up as appropriate
5. Promote social prescribing, its role in self-management, and the wider determinants of health.
6. Build relationships with key staff in GP practices within the local Primary Care Network (PCN), attending relevant meetings, becoming part of the wider network team, providing reports including monitoring and evaluation including general feedback on social prescribing.
7. Work in partnership with all local agencies to raise awareness of social prescribing and how partnership working can reduce pressure on statutory services, improve health outcomes and enable a holistic approach to care.
8. Provide personalised support and work with patients to help them better understand their health and wellbeing
9. Work with the person, their families and carers and consider how they can all be supported through social prescribing.
10. Help people maintain or regain independence through living skills, adaptations, enablement approaches and simple safeguards.
The Social Prescriber will complete the following as part of the role:
11. NHS England and NHS Improvement online learning programme
12. Be enrolled in, undertaking or qualified from appropriate training as set out by the Personalised Care Institute
ribing on their
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
13. NVQ Level 3 Advanced level or equivalent qualifications or working towards
14. Evidence of recent and relevant Continuing Professional Development
Experience
Essential
15. Training in motivational coaching and interviewing or equivalent experience
16. Experience of supporting people, their families and carers in a related role including unpaid work
17. Experience of setting up services within Primary Care Networks and their local communities
18. Experience of working directly in a community development context adult health and social care learning support or public health health improvement (including unpaid work)
19. Experience of working with local VCSE organisations and community groups
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
20. Knowledge of the personalised care approach
21. Understanding of the wider determinants of health including social economic and environmental factors and their impact on Communities
22. Knowledge of community development approaches
23. Knowledge of motivational coaching and interview skills
24. Capacity to be innovative and develop the role of a link worker
25. Ability to work with a range of clinical and non clinical personnel as part of a team
26. Ability to work independently and effectively with a high degree of motivation
27. Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines
28. Ability to define collate analyse and interpret data
Desirable
29. Understanding of NHS long term plan and priorities relevant to primary care
30. Local knowledge of community healthcare and social care