Primary Care Network

**About the Role**:
Uttlesford Health Ltd are looking to hire a PCN Social Prescribing Link Worker.

This post will operate within the South Uttlesford Primary Care Network supporting five local GP practices. As part of the PCN’s plans for transforming and developing primary care locally, the post holder will be expected to operate flexibly and collaboratively with all stakeholders. The role will be part of a multi-disciplinary team and will be central to the delivery of key network objectives.

The post will be employed by Uttlesford Health Limited, which is working in partnership with South Uttlesford PCN and Uttlesford UCAN to deliver high quality patient care at all times. This role is critical to supporting the PCN’s ambition to optimise individual health and wellbeing, reduce health inequalities and address the wider determinants of health and wellbeing.

The aim of the role will be to help to strengthen both community and personal resilience and reduce health inequalities by addressing the wider determinants of health, such as debt, poor housing and physical inactivity, by increasing people’s active involvement with their local communities.

For full details of the role and responsibilities, please see the attached job specification.

Qualifications, training & experience:

- NVQ Level 3, Advanced level or equivalent qualifications or working towards
- Training in motivational coaching and interviewing or equivalent experience
- Experience of supporting people, their families and carers in a related role (including unpaid work)
- Experience of supporting people with their mental health, either in a paid, unpaid or informal capacity
- Experience of working with the VCSE sector (in a paid or unpaid capacity), including with volunteers and small community groups

Personal qualities:

- Ability to listen, empathise with people and provide person centred support in a non-judgemental way
- Able to get along with people from all backgrounds and communities, respecting lifestyles and diversity
- Commitment to reducing health inequalities and proactively working to reach people from all communities
- Able to support people in a way that inspires trust and confidence, motivating others to reach their potential
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with people, their families, carers, community groups, partner agencies and stakeholders
- Ability to organise, plan and prioritise on own initiative, including when under pressure and meeting deadlines

**About Us**:
Our Primary care network (PCN) is based on 4 North Uttlesford Practices working together. PCNs build on existing primary care services and enable greater provision of proactive, personalised, coordinated and more integrated health and social care for people close to home. Clinicians describe this as a change from reactively providing appointments to proactively caring for the people and communities they serve.

We are a growing, supportive team of staff led by our Clinical Director Dr Richard Boyce, GP and Nurse educators, 3 Pharmacists, Paramedics, health and wellbeing coaches, an integrated mental health team and social prescribers.

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