Social Prescriber- Awc Division

**Job Overview**

Modality Partnership AWC Division has a full-time vacancy for a Social Prescriber. The postholder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team within general practice at Kilmeny Group Practice & Long Lee Surgery. We are seeking dedicated postholders to join our team and who can display our CARE values: Commitment, Accountability, Respect and Excellence.

This job is suitable for individuals who are career driven and have a passion for working in an agile manner, and who are committed to make real changes to the health care services provided within Primary Care to improve patient care. Working with our other PCN roles and general practice colleagues, including health and wellbeing coaches, care coordinators and physician associates, the postholder will provide holistic and person-centred support.

The job is not suitable to people who are not resilient to working in a fast-paced environment, working flexibly in line with ever changing demands in Primary Care and the wider NHS.

**As an employee with us you can benefit from**

Enrolment to the NHS pension scheme

Annual leave minimum 27 days, plus 8 days bank holiday pro rata

Employee discounts and benefits scheme

Employee assistance programme (EAP)

Education and career pathways

If you are interested in learning more, please read on.
- **Please Note: The Modality Partnership reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time during the advertising period.**_

**Main duties of the job**

The role of the Social Prescriber is to provide social support to patients across the PCN. You will work individually with patients, taking the time to listen and understand what matters to them, and supporting them to access additional services, groups or social activities.

The postholder will need to confidently evidence and utilise key skills such as effective communication, ability to empower people to take control of their health and wellbeing through referral to link workers who give time, focus on what matters to me and take a holistic approach to an individuals health and wellbeing, connecting people to diverse community groups and statutory services for practical and emotional support.

You will carry and manage a case load of patients, working independently within your remit to support patients. All social prescribers receive clinical supervision.

The postholder will work in collaboration with local divisions (including Divisional Boards) and the National Modality Business Support Team to deliver innovative ways of working to meet the strategic aims of the organisation.

The role is not a regular 9am-5pm job, the job requires innovation, flexibility, and commitment. The postholder will be required to work resourcefully as part of the team to ensure tasks are completed.

**Overview of your organisation**

We are one of the largest GP super-partnerships in the UK, serving over 450,000 patients and with a workforce of 1500+. We are unique, we are always looking at ways to improve our delivery of services through the implementation of new and innovative solutions that we can scale across the organisation. Your job is to work directly with key stakeholders to help us to harmonise ways of working and improve working practices to improve patient and staff satisfaction. This is a role that will equip you with a portfolio of skills to make sustainable changes within Primary Care.

All employees are welcomed to enrol in our employee benefits scheme and NHS pension scheme. We are committed to developing our people through education and career pathways and who align to our organisational values of CARE.

You will love this job if you have a passion for supporting patients and empowering them to manage their individual health and wellbeing needs. You will learn more because you will improve the way we work from the ground up whist working closely with leadership teams to influence service improvement.

You will not enjoy this job if you are seeking a job that purely focuses on signposting patients, you prefer the status quo and are comfortable with more traditional ways of working.

As part of recruitment to the Modality Partnership, we will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks. We will offer support to those who may be undecided about vaccinations. Some vaccinations for certain roles are mandatory, and you will be asked to provide evidence of this where there is a mandatory requirement.

**Qualifications and Experience**:
We require high performing team members to join our team with:
**Experience**:
Experience of working directly in a community development context, adult health and social care, learning support or public health/health improvement (including unpaid work).

Experience of supporting people, their families and carers in a related role (including unpaid work).

Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisa