Main area Social Prescribing Link Worker Grade Band 3 Contract Fixed term: 9 months (End Date 31.03.2026) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 828-PROVIDE3578
Employer Provide CIC Employer type NHS Site Billericay Medical Centre, Chapel Street Town Billericay Salary £25,883 - £26,958 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 08/07/2025 23:59 Interview date 26/06/2025
Job overview
To support the PCN with pro-actively assess the needs of their population and identify patients who would benefit from social prescribing support - E.g. carers, people recently bereaved, people with unhealthy lifestyle choices and those suffering with loneliness and isolation. To provide personalised, practical support to patients, their families and carers enabling them to make decisions that will improve their health and well-being outcomes and to increase their independent living and support by connecting them to
community initiatives for sustainability.
Take a holistic approach, based on the person’s priorities and the wider determinants of health using coaching techniques and a develop trusting relationships by giving people time and focus on ‘what matters to me’ and co-produce a personalised care
and support plan.
The role will require managing and prioritising your own caseload in accordance with the needs, priorities and support required by individuals on the caseload. It is therefore vital that the Social Prescriber has a strong awareness and understanding
of when it is appropriate or necessary to refer people on to other health professionals/agencies, when the person’s needs are beyond the scope of the role –e.g. when there is a mental health need requiring a qualified practitioner.
Main duties of the job
Promote social prescribing and its role in self-management and the wider determinants of health.
Supporting the PCN's with pro-actively assess the needs of their population and identify patients who would benefit from social prescribing support - E.g. carers, people recently bereaved, people with unhealthy lifestyle choices and those suffering
with loneliness and isolation.
To provide personalised, practical support to patients, their families and carers enabling them to make decisions that will improve their health and well-being outcomes and to increase their independent living and support by connecting them to
community initiatives for sustainability.
Working for our organisation
Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.
We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.
A highly respected, award winning health and social care provider. We expect our staff to demonstrate and uphold our values at all times:
Vision: Transforming Lives
Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion
Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.
Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men’s Networks.
We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Promote social prescribing and its role in self-management and the wider determinants of health.
Build relationships with staff in PCN practices and attend relevant MDT meetings to provide information and feedback on social prescribing.
Seek regular feedback about the quality of service and impact of social prescribing on referring agencies.
Be proactive in encouraging self-referrals and connecting with all local communities,particularly those communities that statutory agencies may find hard to reach.
Meet people on a one-to-one basis, making home visits where appropriate
Give people time to tell their stories and focus on ‘what matters to me’. Build trust with the person, providing non-judgemental support, respecting diversity and lifestyle
choices.
Work from a strength-based approach focusing on a person’s assets by using health coaching techniques.
Be a friendly source of information about health, wellbeing and preventionapproaches.
Help people identify the wider issues that impact on their health and wellbeing, such as debt, poor housing, being unemployed, loneliness, isolation and caring responsibilities.
Work with the person, their families and carers and consider how they can all besupported through social prescribing.
Help people maintain or regain independence through living skills, adaptations,enablement approaches and simple safeguards.
Work with individuals to co-produce a simple personalised support plan to address the person’s health and wellbeing needs based on the person’s priorities, interests, values and motivations. The plans need to include 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.
Where appropriate, physically introduce people to community groups, activities andstatutory services, ensuring they are comfortable and follow up to ensure they are happy, able to engage, included and receiving good support.
Where people may be eligible for a personal health budget, help them to explore this option as a way of providing funded, personalised support to be independent, including helping people to gain skills for meaningful employment, where appropriate.
Seek advice and support from the GP supervisor and/or identified individual(s) todiscuss patient-related concerns (e.g. abuse, domestic violence and support withmental health), referring the patient back to the GP or other suitable health professional if required.
Forge strong links with partner organisations, community and neighbourhood levelgroups, utilising their networks and building on what’s already available to create a
menu of community groups and assets. Work collectively with all local partners to ensure community groups are strong and sustainable
Encourage people who have been connected to community support through socialprescribing to volunteer and give their time freely to others, building their skills andconfidence and strengthening community resilience.
Encourage people, their families and carers to provide peer support and to do things together, such as setting up new community groups or volunteering.
Provide a regular ‘confidence survey’ to community groups receiving referrals, to ensure that they are strong, sustained and have the support they need to be part of social prescribing.
Work sensitively with people, their families and carers to capture key information,enabling tracking of the impact of social prescribing on their health and wellbeing.
Encourage people, their families and carers to provide feedback and to share their stories about the impact of social prescribing on their lives.
Work within the MDT and with PCN Practices to ensure that the social prescribing referral codes are inputted into clinical systems (as outlined in the Network Contract DES), adhering to data protection legislation and data sharing agreements.
Work as part of the healthcare team to seek feedback, continually improve theservice and contribute to business planning.
Undertake any tasks consistent with the level of the post and the scope of the role,ensuring that work is delivered in a timely and effective manner.
Duties may vary from time to time, without changing the general character of the post or the level of responsibility.
Person specification
Experience
* Years / experience
Experience
* Years / experience
FURTHER INFORMATION:
How will we contact you?
* All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
* As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
* If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.
Checking progress on your application?
To check progress on your application, please log into your TRAC account. We aim to keep you updated on the status of your application as soon as we can.
Closing Date
Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.
Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?
If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.
Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination.
We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.
Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.
Disability
If you have a disability and need assistance or more time to complete your application or attending interview, please contact a member of the HR Services Team on 0300 3030 2661 or provide.recruitment1@nhs.net.
Work Trials
Please check with your local Job Centre Plus to see if you are eligible for a Work Trial. If you are interested in trying this job first, please contact the HR Services team and we can help you make the arrangements with the Job Centre and the Recruiting Manager.
We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.
SuccessfulApplicant:
You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.
The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
#J-18808-Ljbffr