Social Prescribing Link Worker

1 week ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom Our Health Partnership Full time

We are seeking a Social Prescribing Link Worker to join our growing multi-disciplinary team at Our Health Partnership, working within the Kingstanding, Erdington & Nechells Primary Care Network (KEN PCN).

Please note whilst our Head Office is in Cotteridge, this is not where the role is based, you will be required to work within any of the practices in the aforementioned PCN (B7, B10, B13, B23, B44).

Main duties of the job

The role is to deliver a Social Prescribing Service to PCN Practices across the locality.

To build working knowledge of services in local areas in preparation of engaging with patients and supporting/signposting to achieve best patient outcomes.

To implement patient referrals from participating GPs and other primary care health professionals, providing holistic assessments, co-designing a social prescription to improve health and well-being outcomes for individuals with a longer term outcome of reducing the number of clinical /medical interventions required.

About us

Our Health Partnership was set up by local GPs who are passionate about providing high quality primary care and using their time and skills effectively to benefit patients.

We are currently a GP partnership of 30 practices with 39 surgeries, serving around 280,000 patients in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Shropshire.

The partnership offers a shared administrative and management structure, cutting down the time doctors have to spend on admin. It opens up economies of scale to get best value from budgets. It has the resources to develop innovative services and effective partnerships with local hospitals and care services. And it can access new funding streams that are only available to large GP organisations.

Job description

1. To undertake holistic assessments and co-design Health and Well-being Plans with individual service users, identifying support needs to ensure maximum engagement in improving health and well-being.

2. To provide service users with continuity and a coordinated experience of care, remaining point of contact throughout the individuals social prescription.

3. To establish and maintain effective liaison with stakeholders including health, voluntary, social and education resources, attending relevant meetings as necessary.

4. To work in partnership with all voluntary and community organisations to build a comprehensive database of local resources to design and support the Social Prescription Menu.

5. To ensure information on sources of voluntary and community support is up to date at all times to enable effective and accurate signposting and linking of individuals with services.

6. To train and develop GPs and primary care health teams knowledge on how to identify patients suitable for social prescribing service referral on a quarterly basis.

7. Set up and maintain comprehensive data and evaluation systems, including individual health outcome tools

8. Set up service steering group including representation from all stakeholder groups to support the on-going development, monitoring and evaluation of the programme.

9. Provide quarterly comprehensive outcome focused reports detailing the progress of the service

10. To keep records of your work and adhere to confidentiality, information sharing protocols and provide monitoring information as required.

11. To ensure you have an understanding (appropriate to your role) of, and comply with KEN PCN Safeguarding Policy, working closely with both Safeguarding Care Coordinator and Elderly Care Co-ordinator to promote and safeguard the welfare of children and vulnerable adults.

12. To comply with OHP Health and Safety Policy, Data Protection Policy and to protect the health, safety and welfare of yourself and others.

13. To work flexibly as required by the service and to take part in OHP and KEN PCN and other organisations meetings and events to promote, support and celebrate the work of the service and the agencies.

16. To be able to evidence : Being people focused Reflecting a can do approach Striving for excellence in everything we do Having mutual respect for everyone we work with, work for and support through our services.

Person Specification

Skills & AttributesEssential
- A health, social care, counselling or other relevant professional or academic qualification is desirable although not essential for the right person.
- Excellent holistic assessment as well as consultation skills and experience of providing empowering support to adults in a planned and structured way to improve health, recovery and well-being outcomes.
- Experience of training, supervising, motivating and developing volunteers to ensure a high quality service that meets the needs and promotes positive outcomes for individual service users.
- Proven skills in collating information and data on community resources and organising these in up-to-date and accessible formats for a range of different service users from various communities.
- Excellent record keeping skills and th

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