Acute Social Prescribing Link Worker

4 weeks ago


Saffron Walden, United Kingdom North Uttlesford PCN Full time
About the Role

North Uttlesford PCN has an exciting opportunity for an acute social prescribing link worker to join our neighbourhood team, on a full-time or part-time basis, for up to hours per week.

This innovative post will operate within the Cambridge Hospitals Foundation Trust (Addenbrooke's Hospital) as part of the complex discharge team to facilitate and expedite hospital discharges.Hosted by the local voluntary sector, this exciting role is intended to work with individual patients and their families to support effective discharge planning.This is role intended to act as an expert in voluntary care and in leveraging community voluntary services in support of post-acute hospital care.

The main responsibilities of the role include: Receiving and proactively identify patients in Addenbrooke's Hospital who require additional support in order to facilitate a successful and long standing discharge. Providing personalised support to vulnerable individuals. Working in partnership with the GP practice teams, and PCN colleagues to support patients & promote positive lifestyle changes, with the aim of preventing ill-health by means of behavioural change techniques. Completing holistic-care planning assessments, analysing how needs can be met by local services and other opportunities available in the community. Providing information/advice about a wide range of services in order to promote health & well-being in order to support independence within communities. Forging strong links with local VCSE organisations, community & neighbourhood level group. Contributing to reducing demand on statutory services, hospital re-admissions and to combat unnecessary GP appointments. Working with patients in their own homes, to provide personalised person-centred support following discharge from hospital. Please see attached job description for further information. About the Candidate If you are a local community champion or already a social prescriber, and want a new and exciting challenge, then we would love to hear from you. You will need to have the following skills : Experience of working within healthcare, the voluntary or community sectors, supporting vulnerable groups. Diploma Level 2 in Health and Social Care, or equivalent qualification or experience. Strong listening and communication skills. You will be familiar with local resources and services and how to access them. Motivated by helping people, with care and empathy. Ability to deliver person-centred support in a non-judgmental way. Experience of completing holistic, person-centred care-planning assessments. Understanding of the needs of small, volunteer-led community groups and the ability to support their development. Commitment to collaborative working with all local agencies. Experience and confidence in the delivery of lifestyle change interventions.

About Us

Our primary care network (PCN) is based on 4 North Uttlesford practices working together. PCNs build on existing primary care services and enable greater provision of proactive, personalised, coordinated and more integrated health and social care for people close to home. Clinicians describe this as a change from reactively providing appointments to proactively caring for the people and communities they serve.

We are a growing, supportive team of staff led by our clinical director Dr Richard Boyce, GP and nurse educators, 4 pharmacists, paramedics, care-coordinators, health and wellbeing coaches, an integrated mental health team and social prescribers.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.



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