# Social Prescriber

**Company**: WInchmore Hill Practice
**Location**: London
**Salary**: Negotiable
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are looking to recruit a 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.

The social prescriber will work across the practices who are part of the West Enfield Collaborative Primary Care Network: Winchmore Hill Practice, Abernethy House Surgery, The Town Surgery.

This post empowers people to take control of their health and wellbeing by giving time to focus on what matters to them. 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.

Main duties of the job:

- Working with direct supervision by a GP, take referrals from a wide range of agencies

- Provide personalised support to individuals, their families and carers to take control of their health and wellbeing

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

- Co-produce a simple personalised care and support plan to improve health and wellbeing

- Work with a diverse range of people and communities to draw on and increase the strengths and capacities of local communities

- Collaborate with local diverse partners to contribute towards supporting the local VCSE organisations and community groups to become sustainable

The role will require managing and prioritising your own caseload, in accordance with the needs, priorities and any urgent support required by individuals on the caseload.

Salary: Negotiable

Permanent full-time position.

## Skills

### Required
- General Practice

### Nice to have
- Social Prescribing experience

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