Social Prescriber

4 months ago

Cambridge, United Kingdom Nuffield Road Medical Centre Full time

**Social Prescriber - Cambridge City Primary Care Network (PCN)**
- Are you looking for a role that enables you to support patients to improve their health and wellbeing?_
- Do you enjoy working as a team, both within an organisation and across the local community to collaborate and deliver services that have a positive impact on health and wellbeing?_
- Are you someone who is open to sharing ideas and information, coming up with new ways of working and enjoy the challenge of making these new ways of working happen?_

Within Cambridge City Primary Care Network (PCN), we are looking for a Social Prescriber to join our growing Social Prescriber team. Cambridge City PCN includes the following surgeries:
Arbury Road Surgery

Bottisham Medical Practice

Cambridge Access Surgery

East Barnwell Health Centre

Nuffield Road Medical Centre

York Street Medical Practice

We are moving to a more PCN wide approach to our Social Prescriber activity. Although you will support specific surgeries within our PCN, you will have a mind-set of: team, share and collaborate to do the best for the PCN and our patient population.

This is a great opportunity to join a team that is striving to provide a high level of personalised support to individuals, their families and carers to take control of their wellbeing.

We are open to considering part-time and hybrid working.

**Purpose of the role**

Social prescribing empowers people to take control of their health and wellbeing through referral to non-medical ‘link workers’ who give time, focus on ‘what matters to me’ and take a holistic approach, connecting people to community groups and statutory services for practical and emotional support. Link workers support existing groups to be accessible and sustainable and help people to start new community groups, working collaboratively with all local partners.

Social prescribing can help to strengthen community resilience and personal resilience, and reduces 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. It particularly works for people with long-term conditions (including support for mental health), for people who are lonely or isolated, or have complex social needs which affect their wellbeing.

**Key responsibilities**

1. Take referrals from a wide range of agencies, working with GP practices within primary care networks, pharmacies, multi-disciplinary teams, hospital discharge teams, allied health professionals, fire service, police, job centres, social care services, housing associations, and voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations (list not exhaustive).

2. 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. 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.

3. Draw on and increase the strengths and capacities of local communities, enabling local VCSE organisations and community groups to receive social prescribing referrals. Ensure they are supported, have basic safeguarding processes for vulnerable individuals and can provide opportunities for the person to develop friendships, a sense of belonging, and build knowledge, skills and confidence.

4. Work together with all local partners to collectively ensure that local VCSE organisations and community groups are sustainable and that community assets are nurtured, by making them aware of small grants or micro-commissioning if available, including providing support to set up new community groups and services, where gaps are identified in local provision.

**Key Tasks**

**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 s

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