Mental Health Social Prescriber
6 months ago
**Mental Health Social Prescriber**
Reporting to: PCN Manager
**Salary**: dependent on experience
Benefits: 28 days annual holiday (pro rata for part-time staff)
Location: West Cambs Federation (Hinchingbrooke Business Park) and Huntingdon PCN Practice Locations
Hours of Work: 37.5 hours per week
**About West Cambs Federation**
West Cambs Federation exists to support the delivery of Primary Care across Fenland and Huntingdonshire. Our vision is to be the at scale provider and employer of choice for Primary Care services across our area. As an ambitious organisation, we have delivered significant growth on the last 2 years and continue to do so.
**Purpose of the role**
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Our Services - Huntingdon PCN
**Key responsibilities**
- Take referrals or bookings from GP practices within the Primary Care Network; provide consultations with people (and possibly carers or appointed chaperone) within GP Practices, private addresses, public places and other community settings
- Provide personalised support to individuals, their families and carers to take control of their wellbeing, live independently and improve their health outcomes.
- Develop trusting relationships by giving people time and focus on ‘what matters to me’. Take a holistic approach, based on the person’s priorities and the wider determinants of health.
- Co-produce a personalised support plan to improve health and wellbeing, introducing or reconnecting people to community groups and statutory services.
- Integrate into and form part of General Practice/Primary Care Network teams to provide the support needed in those communities they serve.
- Liaise and communicate with Patients, Carers, Advocates, Health and Social Care professionals, voluntary sector and stake-holders involved the wellbeing of your caseload and communities.
- Be proactive in developing strong links with all local agencies to encourage the growth of the Social Prescriber role with the community.
- Build relationships with key staff in the Federation and GP practices within the local Primary Care Network (PCN), attending relevant meetings, becoming part of the wider network team, providing case load reports, case studies and feedback on social prescribing.
- The role will require managing and prioritising your own caseload, in accordance with the needs, priorities and any urgent support required by individuals on the caseload. It is vital that you have a strong awareness and understanding of when it is appropriate or necessary to refer people back to other health professionals/agencies, when what the person needs is beyond the scope of the link worker role - e.g. when there is a mental health need requiring a qualified practitioner.
**Referrals**
- Promoting social prescribing, its role in self-management, and the wider determinants of health.
- Build relationships with key staff in GP practices within the local Primary Care Network (PCN), attending relevant meetings, becoming part of the wider network team, 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.
- 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.
- Provide teams within the PCN 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
**Provide personalised support**
- Meet people on a one-to-one basis. Give people time to tell their stories and focus on ‘what matters to me’. Build trust with the person, providing non-judgemental 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.
- Work with the person, their families and carers (if relevant) 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 - 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 peopl
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