Band 4 Frailty Social Prescriber

2 weeks ago


Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT Full time

You will have responsibility for managing a caseload, dealing with referrals, signposting, or referring people to specialist services, connecting people with community services to sustain seamless frailty care, providing continuity for their healthcare and wellbeing needs.

Your role involves working with people who might be experiencing issues with access to services connected to complex issues, so you will need good listening and communication skills and be able to build effective partnerships with a wide range of organisations and community groups.

Being proactive forming a network with other Frailty co-link workers and primary care network Link Workers to navigate the person living with frailty to the right help/service.

To work together with all local partners to collectively ensure that local VCSE organisations and community groups are sustainable and that community assets are nurtured.


To build relationships within the virtual wards, attending relevant meetings, becoming part of the wider network team, giving information and feedback on social prescribing.

To ensure that documentation is contemporaneous and accurate as within trust policy.

To 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.

To provide referral agencies with regular updates about social prescribing including training for their staff and how to access information to encourage appropriate referrals.


To be proactive in encouraging self-referrals and connecting with all local communities, particularly those communities that statutory agencies may find hard to reach.

To meet with people on a one-to-one basis, making home visits where appropriate within organisations policies and procedures giving people time to tell their stories and focus on what is important to them and building trust with the person, providing non-judgmental support, respecting diversity, and lifestyle choices

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