Social Prescribing Link Worker

2 weeks ago

StocktononTees, United Kingdom Hartlepool & Stockton Health [H&SH] Full time

Ensure that all patients are signposted to or receive information on their referral including why they are being referred, the importance of attending appointments and where they can access further support. Be available for patients with cancer, or their relatives, to ask questions and deal with problems that arise, linking in or signposting to services such as the hospital team, district nursing or Macmillan services, benefits agency as appropriate. Review patients and follow up each patient a few weeks after a cancer diagnosis, covering topics such as benefits, support groups, offering support to relatives. Be a point of contact for survivors of cancer, or bereaved relatives, who need support, signpost to support groups available locally or nationally as appropriate.

Support the practices in your PCN to improving local uptake of National Cancer Screening Programmes, understand the practices data for uptake on screening and understand how the practice can carry out the screening Support the practices in your PCN in conducting peer to peer learning events that look at data and trends in diagnosis across the PCN, including cases where patients presented repeatedly before referral and late diagnoses. Support with the education for practice teams and patients and coordinate screening promotion events with the practices across the PCN. Support the practices in your PCN to engage with local system partners, including Patient Participation Groups, secondary care, the relevant Cancer Alliance and Public Health Commissioning teams Link in with and build relationships with the wider PCN team, Social Prescribers, Pharmacist, Health and Wellbeing Coach and other clinical/non-clinical partners involved in patient the patients care Holistically bring together all of a persons identified care and support needs, and explore options to help them achieve their needs Help people to manage their needs through answering queries, making and managing appointments, and ensuring that people have good quality written or verbal information to help them make choices about their care Provide coordination and navigation for people and their carers across health and care services, working closely with social prescribing link workers, health and wellbeing coaches, and other professionals Promote the role within the Network

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