CRGPA Social Prescribing Link Worker

Coventry And Rugby GP Alliance; Coventry; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Coventry is looking for a Social Prescribing Link Worker to support individuals in managing their health and wellbeing through personalized care. The role involves building trusting relationships with clients, crafting personalized support plans, and collaborating with community organizations. Ideal candidates should have knowledge in the personalized care approach and the ability to address issues such as debt, housing, and mental health. This position provides a unique opportunity to impact the lives of others positively.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing non-judgmental and non-discriminatory support.
• Ability to identify wider issues impacting health and wellbeing.
• Skilled in co-producing personalised support plans.

Responsibilities

• Meet people on a one-to-one basis and build trust.
• Help clients identify issues affecting their health and wellbeing.
• Support community groups to receive referrals.

Skills

Knowledge of the personalised care approach

Building trusting relationships

Strength-based approach

Understanding of health and wellbeing issues

Job description

We are looking to recruit to the post of social prescribing link worker, to work within our primary care network multi-disciplinary healthcare team, providing 1:1 personalised support to people who are referred to them by team members and local agencies. This is a varied and interesting role in a developing area and would suit someone who likes new challenges and a diverse working environment, involving a number of stakeholders. This post empowers people to take control of their health and wellbeing by giving time to focus on what matters to me. The social prescribing link worker will build trusting relationships with people, create a shared personalised care and support plan and connect them to local, diverse and culturally appropriate community groups, VCSE organisations and services. They will also work with a diverse range of partners to provide support to community groups and VCSE organisations involved in social prescribing. This role helps people to work on their wider health and wellbeing, specifically addressing health access and outcomes and wider determinants of their health, such as debt, poor housing and physical inactivity, as well as other lifestyle issues and low-level mental health concerns by increasing peoples active involvement with their local communities. Main duties of the job

Responsibilities

• Knowledge of the personalised care approach and providing personalised support
• Meet people on a one-to-one basis, making home visits where appropriate within organisations policies and procedures. Give people time to tell their stories and focus on what matters to me. Build trust and respect with the person, providing non-judgemental and non-discriminatory support, respecting diversity and lifestyle choices. Work from a strength-based approach focusing on a persons assets.
• Help people identify the wider issues that impact on their health and wellbeing, such as debt, poor housing, being unemployed, loneliness and caring responsibilities.
• Work with individuals to co-produce a simple personalised support plan to address the persons health and wellbeing needs based on the persons priorities, interests, values, cultural and religious/faith needs and motivations including what they can expect from the groups, activities and services they are being connected to and what the person can do for themselves to improve their health and wellbeing.
• Support community groups and VCSE organisations to receive referrals
• Work collectively with all local partners to ensure community groups are strong and sustainable, identifying gaps in provision of services in the community.
  The Coventry and Rugby GP Alliance is a private company limited by shares, wholly owned by local Coventry and Rugby GP practices. As a GP led organisation, we represent 50 GP practice shareholders and cover nearly 420,000 patients.

We describe our work in terms of Supporting, Innovating, Developing and Educating - we are on the S.I.D.E. of general practice and we have developed our Operational Plans to describe what we are going to do over this year to ensure that we continue to high quality, accessible and responsive services for both practices and patients. We have identified key areas that we will focus on to build upon and improve our existing services. These are our Strategic Priorities:

Strategic Priorities

• Clinical Service Improvement & Delivery
• Clinical Innovation
• Primary Care Development Practice and Network Support
• Training and Education
• Integrated Care
• Good Governance