Social Prescribing Link Worker- Arc Primary Care

6 months ago


Marlow, United Kingdom FedBucks Ltd Full time

**ARC Primary Care Network**

**Base**:Marlow Access Team

**Salary**: Between £25,000 to £27,000 WTE dependant on experience

**Working hours**:37.5 hours per week part time also considered

NHS Pension

33 days leave inclusive of bank holidays

Employee Assistance Programme 24/7 Support

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Social Prescribing Link Worker to join our developing primary care network team within our Marlow Access Team, we provide high quality support to our patients and are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join the team to support us in achieving this.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about empowering people to take control of their health and wellbeing through referral of non-medical pathways giving time, focus on ‘what matters to me’ and take a holistic approach in patient care.

**Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility**
- As a key member of the PCN’s team of health professionals, ensure that referrals from the PCN’s Core Network Practices and from a wide range of agencies are dealt with appropriately and support is offered for the health and wellbeing of patients.
- Constantly assess how far a patient’s health and wellbeing needs can be met by services and other opportunities available in the community.
- Devise and validate the ongoing Directory of Services for patients within the community. Ensure this is accurate and up to date as a constantly evolving point of reference.
- Support Social Prescribers within your network to co-produce a simple personalised care and support plan to address the patient’s health and wellbeing needs by introducing or reconnecting people to community groups and statutory services, including weight management support and signposting where appropriate and it matters to the person.
- Evaluate how far the actions in the care and support plan are meeting the patient’s health and wellbeing needs.
- Provide personalised support to patients, their families, and carers to take control of their health and wellbeing, live independently, improve their health outcomes, and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
- Develop trusting relationships by giving people time and focus on ‘what matters to them’.
- Take a holistic approach, based on the patient’s priorities and the wider determinants of health.
- Explore and support access to a personal health budget where appropriate.
- manage and prioritise own caseload, in accordance with the health and wellbeing needs of their population.
- Where required and as appropriate, refer patients back to other health professionals within the PCN.
- Meet people on a one-to-one basis, making home visits where appropriate. Give people time to tell their stories and focus on ‘what matters to me’. Build trust with the person, providing non-judgmental support, respecting diversity, and lifestyle choices. Work from a strength-based approach focusing on a person’s assets.
- Be a friendly source of information about wellbeing and prevention approaches. Help people identify the wider issues that impact on their health and wellbeing, such as debt, poor housing, being unemployed, loneliness and caring responsibilities.
- Help people maintain or regain independence through living skills, adaptations, enablement approaches and simple safeguards.
- Work with individuals to co-produce a simple personalised support plan - based on the person’s priorities, interests, values and motivations - including what they can expect from the groups, activities and services they are being connected to and what the person can do for themselves to improve their health and wellbeing.
- Where appropriate, physically introduce people to community groups, activities, and statutory services, ensuring they are comfortable. Follow up to ensure they are happy, able to engage, included and receiving good support.
- Where people may be eligible for a personal health budget, help them to explore this option as a way of providing funded, personalised support to be independent, including helping people to gain skills for meaningful employment, where appropriate.
- Must be able to travel by own car between all Primary Care Network locations and patient's homes.

We are looking for someone that perhaps has worked within the NHS previously, maybe as a receptionist or an administrator and is experiences in use of clinical systems (we use EMIS). You might be looking to change your role and make a real difference in patients’ lives by supporting and signposting patients through referrals of non-medical pathways to support and link patients to resources within the local community. You will become our expert of local resources that patients may need support to access.

FedBucks is a federation of 45 GP practices covering a population of over 485,000 patients across Buckinghamshire. We began in 2016 and now employ around 200 members of staff across our head office sites, and our planned and unplanned care services.

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