# Social Prescriber

**Company**: Celandine & Metrocare PCN
**Location**: Ruislip
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £32,000 to £40,000 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a full-time Social Prescriber to join our Celandine & Metrocare PCN in Ruislip.

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 the individual, and take a holistic approach to an individual's health and wellbeing, connecting people to diverse community groups and statutory services for practical and emotional support.

The successful candidate will manage a caseload of clients through assessment to onward-referral, working with clients in the practice that have been referred by the GP. Providing ongoing support over an allocated timeframe.

**Main duties of the job**

- Working with direct supervision by a GP, take referrals from the PCNs Core Network Practices and from a wide range of agencies, including pharmacies, wider multi-disciplinary teams, hospital discharge teams, allied health professionals.

- Provide personalised support to individuals, their families and carers to take control of their health and wellbeing, live independently and improve their health access and outcomes, as a key member of the PCN multi-disciplinary team.

- Develop trusting relationships by giving people time and focus on what matters to them.

- Take a holistic approach, based on the person's priorities and the wider determinants of health.

- Co-produce a simple personalised care and support plan to improve health and wellbeing, introducing or reconnecting people to appropriate community groups and statutory services.

**Key Tasks:**

- Referrals:

- Promote social prescribing, its role in self-management, addressing health inequalities and the wider determinants of health.

- Build relationships with staff in GP practices within the local PCN, attending relevant MDT meetings, giving information and feedback on social prescribing.

- Be proactive in developing strong links with all local agencies to encourage referrals.

- Work in partnership with all local agencies to raise awareness of social prescribing.

- Provide personalised support:

- 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 and respect with the person, providing non-judgemental and non-discriminatory support.

- Community Development:

- Forge strong links with a wide range of local VCSE organisations, community and neighbourhood level groups.

- Develop supportive relationships with local diverse VCSE organisations, culturally appropriate community groups and statutory services.

- Measuring Effectiveness:

- 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.

- Professional development:

- Work with your supervising GP and/or line manager to undertake continual personal and professional development.

- Adhere to organisational policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, equality, diversity and inclusion training and health and safety.

## Skills

### Required
- social prescribing
- holistic approach
- community development
- person-centred support

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