PCN Social Prescribing Link Worker
The closing date is 31 August 2025
Job summary
As a Social Prescribing Link Worker within Rockingham Forest PCN, you will hold a vital role in empowering patients to take charge of their health and wellbeing. Social Prescribing Link Workers support and guide patients with diverse needswhether they are living with long-term conditions, battling low mood or loneliness, or facing complex social challenges. Working within our multidisciplinary team, you will assist individuals in accessing non-medical support, building their confidence, and connecting them with community resources that address the broader factors influencing their health and wellbeing
Main duties of the job
As a Social Prescribing Link Worker, you will support patients to improve their health and wellbeing by connecting them with non-clinical services and community resources. Working closely with GPs, the wider practice team, and local community services, you will provide tailored one-to-one support, empower people to take greater control of their lives, and contribute to reducing health inequalities.
About us
LAKESIDE HEALTHCARE is changing the face of primary care provision in England. We are bold, adventurous and ambitious and determined to thrive in uncertain times. We are the largest true partnership in the NHS and operate from various sites across the East Midlands. We serve the healthcare needs of over 170,000 patients across Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire & Cambridgeshire.
Caring & Respect: Simply put we genuinely care about people: working together for our patients and our teams, our patients come first in everything we do.
Teamwork & Quality: In all areas of our business we network, collaborate and learn from our Patients, Stakeholders and each another to ensure we are always striving to improve, making the right and best decisions to provide the best service.
About the Practice/Department/Team
Rockingham Forest PCN is a large, forward-thinking Primary Care Network compromising 3 practices across Corby, Kettering and Oundle.
This role is based across the Lakeside surgeries in Corby, Kettering and Oundle.
We recognise the value that this role can bring to our practices and our patients, and we look forward to growing our PCN team. Our aim is to provide exemplary patient care; finding innovative solutions in general practice to deliver the best care we can to our patients.
Details
Date posted
20 August 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£12.21 an hour
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
A3007-25-0133
Job locations
Cottingham Road
Corby
Northamptonshire
NN17 2UR
Employer details
Employer name
Lakeside Healthcare Group
Address
Cottingham Road
Corby
Northamptonshire
NN17 2UR
Employer's website
https://www.lakesidehealthcaregroup.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
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