Social Prescribing Advisor
£28,997 FTE
12-month contract (Maternity Cover)
30-37 hours per week
Our client is the lead body for supporting, developing and promoting the voluntary and community sector in the Rotherham borough. Their core activities and associated projects are a keystone for local community engagement and development. They are looking to recruit a Social Prescribing Advisor as part of their award-winning service.
They work with GP Practices, Mental Health teams and Hospitals to support individuals to tackle barriers that prevent them from self-managing their health and wellbeing and becoming connected to their local community.
Social prescribing is a mechanism for linking patients and those accessing care with local, non-medical sources of support, recognising that many things that affect our health like loneliness, stress, anxiety or low levels of activity can't be treated by doctors or medicine alone. Social prescribing connects people to non-medical support to address these issues and other unmet needs.
Our client hosts a range of Social Prescribing teams, and they currently have a 12-month fixed term role available for a Social Prescribing Advisor.
As a Social Prescribing Advisor, you will work alongside a range of local partners from the NHS, Adult Social Care and the Voluntary Sector. As a key partner in the delivery of multi-disciplinary support for patients, you will wor...