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Salary:In the range of £26,000 - £27,300 FTE dependant on experience

ACTUAL SALARY from £15,795 - £16,380 (22.5hrs)

Working hours:Part Time/4 days 22.5 hours

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Employee Assistance Programme 24/7 Support

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Practice Based Social Prescribing Link Worker who is passionate about empowering people to take control of their health to join our PCN, we provide high quality support to our patients and are looking for an enthusiastic, empathetic individual to join the PCN team to support us in achieving this.

We are looking for someone to be proactive in getting to know and support our local community assets and should be motivated by helping people to become active and independent members of their local community.

Experience of working positively with people facing complex social and emotional challenges, and some knowledge of solution-focussed coaching approaches. The successful candidate will be working with people from diverse cultural and social backgrounds and will need to work confidently and effectively in a diverse, and sometimes challenging environment.

Social prescribing empowers 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 community groups and statutory services for practical and emotional support. Link workers also support existing groups to be accessible and sustainable and help people to start new community groups, working collaboratively with all local partners. Social prescribing link workers (SPLW) will work as a key part of the primary care network (PCN) multi-disciplinary team.

FedBucks is a not-for-profit GP federation of 47 GP practices covering apopulation of over 500,000 patients across Buckinghamshire. We began in 2016and now employ around 300 members of staff at our head office site, and acrossour planned and unplanned care services.

As a GP Federation and Social Enterprise, we are proud to represent ourmember practices and to champion primary care by working with local generalpractice and system partners in the provision of community-based healthcareservices. We are dedicated to providing safe and compassionate care to ourpatients across our range of planned and unplanned healthcare services inBuckinghamshire and believe in continuous commitment to quality servicedelivery and positive patient outcomes.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves inour purpose when enabling excellent patient care and supporting generalpractice.

FedBucks is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare ofchildren, young people, and vulnerable adults. All staff are expected to sharethis commitment and to uphold the organisations safeguarding policies andprocedures at all times.

The successful applicant will be required to undergo an enhancedbackground check (e.g., DBS) prior to appointment, and regular safeguardingtraining will be provided and required.

Job responsibilities:

To manage a caseload of patients maintaining accurate records of each contact and share information appropriately

• To undertake patient assessments as deemed appropriate, mainly in the patients home
• To make referrals or signpost to statutory and voluntary services - following up as appropriate
• Promote social prescribing, its role in self-management, and the wider determinants of health.
• Build relationships with key staff in GP practices within the local Primary Care Network (PCN), attending relevant meetings, becoming part of the wider network team, providing reports including monitoring and evaluation including general feedback on social prescribing.
• Work in partnership with all local agencies to raise awareness of social prescribing and how partnership working can reduce pressure on statutory services, improve health outcomes and enable a holistic approach to care.
• Provide personalised support and work with patients to help them better understand their health and wellbeing
• Work with the person, their families and carers and consider how they can all be supported through social prescribing.
• Help people maintain or regain independence through living skills, adaptations, enablement approaches and simple safeguards.

The Social Prescriber will complete the following as part of the role:

NHS England and NHS Improvement online learning programme

https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/social-prescribing/

Be enrolled in, undertaking or qualified from appropriate training as set out by the Personalised Care Institute

https://www.england.nhs.uk/personalisedcare/supporting-health-and-care-staff-to-deliver-personalised-care/personalised-care-institute/

• Understanding of NHS long term plan and priorities relevant to primary care
• Local knowledge of community healthcare and social care is desirable
• Knowledge of the personalised care approach Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic, and environmental factors and their impact on Communities
• Knowledge of community development approaches
• Knowledge of motivational coaching and interview skills
• Capacity to be innovative and develop the role of a link worker
• Ability to work with a range of clinical and non-clinical personnel as part of a team
• Ability to work independently and effectively with a high degree of motivation
• Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines
• Ability to define, collate, analyse, and interpret data
• Understanding of the current issues facing primary care teams.

• NVQ Level 3, Advanced level or equivalent qualifications or working towards
• Evidence of recent and relevant Continuing Professional Development

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.