Social Prescriber
2 weeks ago
At The Lewisham Care Partnership, we are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Social Prescriber to join our team. As a Social Prescriber, you will play a key role in supporting the delivery of the Comprehensive Model of Personalised Care, working closely with local communities and healthcare professionals to promote health and wellbeing.
Main Responsibilities:
- Provide person-centred support to individuals, their families, and carers, empowering them to take control of their wellbeing and improve their health outcomes.
- Develop trusting relationships with individuals, their families, and carers, giving them time and focus on what matters to them.
- Take a holistic approach, based on the person's priorities, and the wider determinants of health, to co-produce a simple personalised care and support plan.
- Evaluate the individual impact of a person's wellness progress, ensuring that their needs are met and their goals are achieved.
- Manage and prioritise your own caseload, in accordance with the needs, priorities, and any urgent support required by individuals on the caseload.
- Work collaboratively with local agencies, including VCSE organisations and community groups, to ensure that individuals have access to the support and services they need.
About Us:
The Lewisham Care Partnership is committed to providing high-quality healthcare services that meet the needs of our patients. We are a responsive, supportive, courteous, and cost-effective organisation that values diversity and promotes equality of opportunity.
Person Specification:
- Ability to actively listen, empathise with people, and provide person-centred support in a non-judgemental way.
- Able to provide a culturally sensitive service, supporting people from all backgrounds and communities, respecting lifestyles and diversity.
- Commitment to reducing health inequalities and proactively working to reach people from diverse communities.
- Able to support people in a way that inspires trust and confidence, motivating others to reach their potential, adapting to individual levels of activation and health literacy.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with people, their families, carers, community groups, partner agencies, and stakeholders, adapting communication styles accordingly.
- Commitment to collaborative working with all local agencies, including VCSE organisations and community groups, able to work with others to reduce hierarchies and find creative solutions to community issues.
- Can demonstrate personal accountability, emotional resilience, and ability to work well under pressure.
Essential Skills and Knowledge:
- Knowledge of the personalised care approach, utilising the evidence base for social prescribing interventions and activities.
- Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic, and environmental factors, and their impact on communities, individuals, their families, and carers.
- Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- Able to work from an asset-based approach, building on existing community and personal assets.
- Understanding of the needs of small volunteer-led community groups and ability to contribute to supporting their development.
- Ability to organise, plan, and prioritise on your own initiative, including when under pressure and meeting deadlines.
- High level of written and oral communication skills.
- Confidently approaches difficult conversations.
- Able to provide motivational coaching to support people's behaviour change.
Desirable Skills and Knowledge:
- Local knowledge of VCSE and community services.
- Knowledge of how the NHS works, including primary care and MDT working.
Qualifications:
- NVQ Level 3, Advanced level, or equivalent qualifications, or working towards.
- Enrolled in, undertaking, or qualified from appropriate training as set out by the Personalised Care Institute.
- Demonstrable commitment to professional and personal development.
Other:
- Meets DBS reference standards and criminal record checks.
- Willingness to work flexible hours when required to meet work demands.
- Access to transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including to visit people in their own homes and support people to attend activities as appropriate.
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