Pcn Social Prescribing Link Worker

4 weeks ago

Uxbridge, United Kingdom The Confederation, Hillingdon CIC Full time

**Key Tasks**: Referrals: - Promote social prescribing, its role in self-management, addressing health inequalities and the wider determinants of health. - As part of the PCN multi-disciplinary team, build relationships with staff in GP practices within the local PCN, attending relevant MDT meetings, giving information and feedback on social prescribing. - Be proactive in developing strong links with all local agencies to encourage referrals, recognising what they need to be confident in the service to make appropriate referrals. - To work inclusively with the Primary Care Networks member practices, The Confederation, H4All and other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- 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 access and outcomes and enable a holistic approach to care. - Provide referral agencies with regular updates about social prescribing, including training for their staff and how to access information to encourage appropriate referrals. - Seek regular feedback about the quality of service and impact of social prescribing on referral agencies. - Be proactive in encouraging equality and inclusion, through self-referrals and connecting with all diverse local communities, particularly those communities that statutory agencies may find hard to reach.Provide personalised support - Meet people on a one-to-one basis, making home visits where appropriate within organisations’ policies and procedures.

Give people time to tell their stories and focus on ‘what matters to me’. Build trust and respect with the person, providing non-judgemental and non-discriminatory support, respecting diversity and lifestyle choices. Work from a strength-based approach focusing on a person’s assets. - To undertake holistic client needs assessments in the surgery, using the Patient Activation Measure (PAM) assessment and the ONS4 Wellbeing questionnaire full training on their use will be provided.
- Be a friendly and engaging source of information about health, 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. - Work with the person, their families and carers and consider how they can all be supported through social prescribing. - 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 to address the person’s health and wellbeing needs - based on the person’s priorities, interests, values, cultural and religious/faith needs 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. - Act as the bridge between health and care workers and local communities in order to make more effective use of social capital. Where appropriate, physically introduce people to culturally appropriate community groups, activities and statutory services, ensuring they are comfortable, feel valued and respected. 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. - Seek advice and support from the GP supervisor and/or identified individual(s) to discuss patient-related concerns (e.g. abuse, domestic violence and support with mental health), referring the patient back to the GP or other suitable health professional if required. Support community groups and VCSE organisations to receive referrals Community Development: - Forge strong links with a wide range of local VCSE organisations, community and neighbourhood level groups, utilising their networks and building on what’s already available to create a menu of diverse community groups and assets, who promote diversity and inclusion.
- Develop supportive relationships with local diverse VCSE organisations, culturally appropriate community groups and statutory services, to make timely, appropriate and supported referrals for the person being introduced. Work collectively with all local partners to ensure community groups are strong and sustainable - Work with commissioners and local partners to identify unmet diverse needs within the community and gaps in community provision. Map community resources and build and build community capacity to meet identified gaps in provision. - Encourage people who have been connected to community support through social prescribing to volunteer and give their time freely to others, building their skills and confidence

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