Social Prescriber

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities

General

• Help people to manage their needs through answering queries, making and managing appointments, and ensuring that people have good quality written or verbal information to help them make choices about their care;

• Work with the GPs and other primary care professionals within the PCN to identify and manage a caseload of patients, and where required and as appropriate, refer people back to other health professionals within the PCN.

• Assist with the collection and collation of data on needs related to health and well-being;

• Maintain contemporaneous, complete and accurate records of all patient interventions;

• Help to raise awareness of health and well-being, screening, annual health checks and reviews for long term conditions and how these can be promoted;

• Awareness of, and compliance with, all relevant local/ clinical policies and guidelines.

• Participate in and be responsible for monitoring progress against key performance targets.

• Update and maintain accurate patient records on the practice clinical computer system, including patient contact, advice given and action taken.

• Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment.

• Use highly developed knowledge and skills to provide high standards of patient centred care.

• Contribute to the development of the role.

Direct patient services

• Holistically bring together all of a persons identified care and support needs, and explore options to meet these within a single personalised care and support plan (PCSP).

• Encourage patients to engage with cancer screening initiatives and follow-up those who have not attended.

• Improve the quality and timeliness of referrals under the Two Week Waitpathway, safety netting those who have been referred, carrying out audits, working closely with the PCN clinical and non-clinical cancer champions.

• Improve patient engagement with annual health checks and condition specific follow up within primary care. This will include patients who are historically under-served or face health inequalities such as those on the Learning Disability and SMI registers.

• Invite patients to initiatives run by the PCN, practice or community partners that may decrease their chances of developing a chronic conditions by proactively addressing factors that play into this including, obesity, CVD, etc.

Improving outcomes

• Use proactive and preventative methodologies to support people to stay well for longer.

• Enhance thereferral process for those with suspected cancer under the Two Week Wait pathway and safety-net patients.

• Support the achievement of national objectives for health improvement and quality of care, e.g.QOF, IIF.

Engagement with partner organisations

• Work effectively with the PCN multidisciplinary primary care team to maximise benefit to patients.

• Engage incoordination and delivery ofthe widerMDTs within the PCN.

• Develop good relationships with cancer networks and charities.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working within the NHS and Primary Care in a similar job role.
• Good computer literacy.
• Effective communication and teamwork skills.

Desirable

• Prior knowledge of EMIS system.
• Confident.
• Evidence of appropriate training.

Qualifications

Essential

• Good standard of education with 5 C/GCSEs or equivalent

Desirable

• Evidence of continual professional development

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Employer details

Employer name

A31 Primary Care Network

Address

Alton Health Centre

Anstey Road

Alton

Hampshire

GU34 2QX

Employer's website

https://www.a31pcn.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)