Macmillan Improving The Cancer Journey Social

**Job Description: Social Presciber Role for Arbroath. (Fixed term contract with a view to being continued)**

**Employer**: Voluntary Action Angus, 5-7 The Cross, Forfar

**PERSONNEL SPECIFICATION**

To deliver social prescribing with a specific focus on individuals living with or effected by cancer in localities in Angus taking additional responsibility for connection with wider VAA Locality workers, third sector and strategic partner opportunities and connecting GP practices with community based opportunities which help improve well-being.

**Key Responsibilities**:
The role will involve supporting personal options and choice for patients and people effected by cancer to help improve wellbeing, referring individuals to comprehensive social care services, taking referrals and ensuring that you target groups and communities most in need and helping them to live a healthier, happier life. This is a very stimulating role that will allow you to work with a wide range of people such as GP’s Statutory partners such as Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP), Community Planning Partnership (CPP) and voluntary organisations and will also include patients with:

- Living with or effected by cancer and as a result are:

- In need of support with improving mental well-being.
- Who may endure loneliness or isolation.
- Experience poverty and inequalities which may be a determinant to poor health.Who have complex social needs which affect their well-being

**Operational Development and Duties**

1. Delivering the (ICJ) service across Angus.

2. Dealing appropriately with referrals to the ICJ service.

3. Develop and maintain referral pathways with a range of relevant partners

To devise and implement an effective pathway for patients, addressing their holistic and non-medical needs. Principally, this will be devised with VAA locality workers, locality locator and other partners.

4. Have delegated responsibility for the delivery of Macmillan’s Holistic Needs Assessment (HNA) as well as a generic range of health and wellbeing support areas across Angus.

5. Provide topic specific expertise to develop and deliver a range of health, wellbeing and social care improvement work to improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities across Angus.

6. Establish and maintain key partnerships with statutory, voluntary and community organisations providing disease specific (Cancer) health and wellbeing improvement capacity across Angus.

7. Provide a level of expertise, utilising a combination of specific and generic knowledge and skills specific to local need.

8. Engage with customers, communities of interest, including issue based and disease specific groups, generic community groups, young people, older people and/or patient/ service user and carer groups.

9. To ensure that a process of ‘soft handover’ is completed with each patient including an initial assessment that includes:
a) Risk assessment

b) An agreed action plan, assisting and encouraging clients to make their own decisions and choices.

c) Conducting reviews with patients to ensure useful and sustainable benefits have been achieved.

10. To develop and promote ICJ Social Prescribing and wider community involvement and participation in the Social Prescribing ICJ project.

11. To produce monthly and quarterly reports in line with contractual agreements through VAA’s Appraisd system.

12. To ensure that end-of-programme evaluations and reports are produced as required for internal and external purposes where appropriate.

13. To participate in training, learning and development as determined by the line manager and Macmillan.

14. To market and represent the ICJ Social Prescribing Project widely at all levels to ensure maximum awareness of the service.

15. Establish and maintain strong and effective partnerships with and across General Practice, Primary Care colleagues and within partner organisations who can influence and deliver the Cancer, wellbeing and Inequalities work streams e.g. Health care staff, statutory partners and voluntary sector.

**Other Duties**

1. To ensure adherence to, and implementation of, all relevant legislation and VAA and GP practices policies.

2. To participate in ongoing supervision and appraisals including relevant VAA internal reporting systems.

3. To attend meetings of the Health Centres in Angus and participate in MDT activity as required.

4. To create and maintain good working relations with HSCP members, staff, colleagues and clients.

5. To operate Health and Safety at Work procedures.

6. To carry out any other reasonable duties required by the VAA Manager.

7. To provide details of outcome activity to partners including the (LIG)

**Person Specification**

**Personal Qualities and Attributes**:

- Ability to actively listen, empathise with people and provider person-centres support in a nonjudgemental way.
- Ability to provide a culturally sensitive service, supporting people from all backgrounds and co