Health Inequalities Link Worker

3 weeks ago

South Shields, South Tyneside, United Kingdom West View Surgery Full time
Job Summary

The Health Inequalities Link Worker plays a vital role in addressing health disparities and promoting health equity in our community. As a key member of our team, you will work closely with patients, healthcare providers, and community organizations to develop and implement strategies that improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities.

Main Responsibilities
  • Coordinate and deliver activities that support early diagnosis of cancer, focusing on high-risk populations and communities.
  • Develop and implement health education programs that promote cancer screening and early detection, using evidence-based approaches and culturally sensitive materials.
  • Work with healthcare providers and community organizations to identify and address barriers to cancer screening and early diagnosis, including access to healthcare, transportation, and language barriers.
  • Engage with hard-to-reach communities and populations, including those with limited English proficiency, to promote health education and cancer screening.
  • Collaborate with the Cancer Screening Programmes teams to identify and address gaps in cancer screening and early diagnosis, and to develop strategies to improve health outcomes.
Targeted Responsibilities
  • Target interventions towards the most deprived communities and other communities and geographies of health inequality, including ethnically diverse communities, those in digital poverty, with a learning disability or autism, and areas with lower health literacy.
  • Target interventions towards younger people with the dual objective of increasing their own awareness of signs and symptoms of cancer and encouraging them to present for cancer screening, as well as looking to them to be vectors of communication to their older family members/workmates or wider community.
  • Support the delivery of the Targeted Lung Health Check (TLHC) programme across South Tyneside & Sunderland, maximising uptake amongst harder-to-reach groups, patients from our most deprived communities, and supporting current smokers to stop smoking.
  • Support specific local campaigns identified by National Cancer Alliance, including work on Lung and Head and Neck cancer awareness.
  • Support continued uptake of Faecal Immunochemical Testing (FIT), reinforcing the importance of patients completing the FIT test if allocated one in Primary Care.
  • Support and promote uptake of the three cancer screening programmes and contribute to the following new initiatives in screening where appropriate to the populations targeted:
    • Support the increase in uptake of breast screening in ethnically diverse populations (intersectionality with deprivation).
    • Support the development of new interventions and information resources to target more high-risk communities.
    • Work with breast screening providers to influence them to adapt their offer to these women to be more culturally aware.
    • Support those new to bowel screening (under 60) to be more willing to take up the offer of screening (specifically targeting men in quartiles 4/5) using behavioural science principles.
    • Support the increase in uptake of cervical screening in younger women, ethnically diverse populations, and in deprived communities.
    • Support the increase of Smoking Cessation with local pharmacies to help reduce the smoking population within South Tyneside.
    • Support our linked Social Prescribing Link Workers to help reduce obesity, which will reduce the risk of cancer in later life.
Generic Responsibilities
  • All staff at West View Surgery have a duty to conform to the following:
  • A good attitude and positive action towards ED&I creates an environment where all individuals are able to achieve their full potential.
  • Patients and their families have the right to be treated fairly and be routinely involved in decisions about their treatment and care.
  • Staff have the right to be treated fairly in recruitment and career progression.
  • The practice is committed to supporting and promoting opportunities for staff to maintain their health, well-being, and safety.
  • The practice is committed to maintaining an outstanding confidential service.
  • The practice continually strives to improve work processes which deliver healthcare with improved results across all areas of our service provision.
  • On arrival at the practice, all personnel are to complete a practice induction programme.
  • The effective use of training and development is fundamental in ensuring that all staff are equipped with the appropriate skills, knowledge, attitude, and competences to perform their role.
  • All staff are to recognise the significance of collaborative working.
  • Staff at West View Surgery must adhere to the information contained within practice policies and regional directives.
  • The security of the practice is the responsibility of all personnel.
  • At West View Surgery, staff are required to dress appropriately for their role.
  • All personnel are entitled to take leave and should be encouraged to take all of their leave entitlement.

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