Social Prescriber Link Worker

3 days ago

ClactononSea, United Kingdom Community Voluntary Services Tendring Full time

**HOURS**:
37 hours per week with possibility of enhancement for some weekend call out on rota basis required (Part time hours considered)

**HEAD OFFICE BASE**:Community Voluntary Services Tendring (CVST), Imperial House, Rosemary Road, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, CO15 1NZ

**DURATION**:12 months - with potential to be extended

**PURPOSE OF THE POST**:
Working as part of CVST’s Social Prescribing Team, the postholder will support the development of long-term sustainable communities that help and empower local residents to lead healthier, more independent, and more active lives.

The role of the Social Prescribing Link Worker may include working as part of one or more of the following projects:

- Cultural Awareness project focusing on empowering and supporting people from culturally diverse communities across Tendring to ensure equity and equality of access to services;
- Home from Hospital service - working with local hospitals (both on site and remotely) to support and expedite hospital discharge;
- End of Life Social Prescribing - supporting people with life limiting illnesses and their families/carers to access the support and services they need;
- GP Support - working with GP surgeries (both surgery based, remotely and in the community) to proved a holistic social prescribing service to their patients.

In particular, the postholder will work toward achieving one or more of the following outcomes:

- Those who are socially isolated will report reduced feelings of loneliness by being supported to access local services and activities.
- People suffering from poor physical and/or mental health and/or long-term health conditions will report an improvement in their sense of health and well-being by increasing their physical activity and/or accessing volunteering opportunities and/or attending new clubs or activities and making new friends.
- People supported will report that they are better able to manage their health and wellbeing.
- People supported will report that they are more able to manage practical issues.

**MAIN DUTIES**:
Work with all clinical, social care and mental health colleagues in the community and/or attached to GP Practices in the Tendring district area and/or Colchester, Clacton, and Harwich Hospitals and/or St. Helena, as an advocate for the voluntary and community sector to ensure that the local social prescribing offer is fully integrated.

Work with and take referrals from GP practices individually and within primary care networks, multidisciplinary teams (MDT), hospital discharge teams, other health professionals and self-referrals.

Be a friendly source of information about wellbeing and prevention approaches and provide support to individuals to take control of their wellbeing, live independently and improve their health outcomes.

If in agreement with the GP practice, undertake regular clinics/sessions from the GP practices to help support practices to manage the demand by supporting patients with non-medical needs.

Approach and positively engage with identified vulnerable individuals who may be referred to a link worker, ensuring that they fully understand what a social prescribing service is able to offer, that it requires personal goal setting and will enable them to maintain their independence and improve their wellbeing.

Work with individuals to co-produce a simple personalised support plan, including what they can expect from the groups and services they are being connected/referred to and what the person can do themselves to improve health and wellbeing. Introducing or reconnecting them to activities, community groups and statutory services as identified.

Develop trusting relationships giving people time to focus on ‘what matters to them’. Take a holistic approach based on the individual’s priorities and the wider determinants of health.

Help people identify the wider issues that impact on their health and wellbeing such as debt, poor housing, being unemployed, loneliness and caring responsibilities and to consider how they can be supported through social prescribing.

Build relationships with staff in GP practices and other NHS colleagues, attending relevant meetings, becoming part of the wider network team, giving information and feedback on social prescribing.

Work in partnership with statutory agencies and other social prescribing colleagues collaboratively to raise awareness of social prescribing and how multi-agency partnership working can reduce pressure on statutory services.

Ensure that all individuals who pass through the service are accurately recorded, following up to ensure that they have received good support; completing monitoring as required, to demonstrate outcomes of the service. Use the common template to record enquiries, individual goal progress, activities.

Use guided conversation to identify and capture initial data that can be used for follow up with the individual at 6 months and 12 months enabling tracking of the impact of the service

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