Social Prescriber Yorkshire Coast & Wolds PCN

Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide personalised support to patients, their families, and carers to take control of their health and wellbeing, live independently, improve their health outcomes, and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

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

Working collaboratively with community groups providing support to maintain and build accessibility, sustainability, and capacity. Key Areas of Responsibility

Accept referrals and assess how far a patients health and wellbeing needs can be met by services and other opportunities in the community.

Manage and prioritise your caseload reflecting your patients needs.

Work with patients identified through the Integrated Neighbourhood Team meetings

Together produce a simple personalised care and support plan to address their health and wellbeing needs by introducing or reconnecting people to community groups and statutory services, including weight management support, smoking cessation, taking up employment, training, welfare support - personal health budget - and sign posting where it matters to the person.

Following a patients journey, evaluate how far the actions in the care and support plan are meeting their health and wellbeing needs.

Where required refer patients back to other health professionals within the PCN.

For your own personal and professional development, you will be expected to participate in monthly supervision with a health professional.

Discuss concerns with a relevant GP to ensure safeguarding procedures are followed appropriately.

Work collaboratively with local Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise or VCSE organisations and community groups to receive social prescribing referrals.

Support the VCSE organisations and community groups to become more sustainable, sharing intelligence regarding gaps or issues identified in local provision.

Ensure all VCSE organisations have appropriate safeguarding procedures in place and are genuine opportunities for patients to develop a sense of belonging, build knowledge, skills, and confidence.

Sharing the knowledge and promoting the benefits with colleagues in the PCN on other services available in the local community and how these can be accessed.

Promote the social prescribing services you offer to colleagues within your PCN and the community. Be visible.

Gather data to build an evidence base about the benefits of social prescribing.

Ensure data is captured in the clinical systems and SNOMED codes are utilised.

Attends the peer support networks run by NHS England and NHS Improvement at ICS level

Management of workload and personal development

Act on own initiative in prioritising and managing workload, in respect of clinical, managerial, and administrative areas, as necessary.

Maintain own personal and professional development as agreed at your annual review.

Person Specification

Behaviours

Essential

• Communicates with colleagues well to ensure the smooth delivery of services
• Proactively supports others to deliver team objectives
• Takes responsibility for actions and looks to enhance the service and its reputation in all activities undertaken
• Actively engages with building personal capacity and resilience

Other

Essential

• Applicants must be willing to obtain and maintain Class 1 Business Insurance for any vehicle used in the performance of their duties, at their own expense

Values

Essential

• Working Together
• Improvement and Development
• Respect and Compassion
• Engagement and Involvement

Qualifications

Essential

• Has undertaken the NHS England and NHS Improvement online learning programme
• Enrolled/in progress/qualified from appropriate training as set out by the Personalised Care Institute

Experience

Essential

• To understand and in practice apply Caldicott Principles, Data Protection Act 2018 and appropriately protect and individuals personal data, disclosing where appropriate only
• Demonstrable commitment to CPD
• Understands person-centred approaches
• To deliver outcomes based on set targets
• Liaise with other colleagues to promote the success of the PCN and its Partner organisations in primary care
• Work to perpetuate a culture that is transparent and open
• A good listener who demonstrates empathy
• Has the skills to assess risk and identify ways to mitigate these
• Awareness of and has well-developed IT skills to facilitate quick and confident learning of new systems to support the management of patients in a primary care setting (including Microsoft packages)
• Working well with others to deliver goals
• Being motivated to deliver excellent services to support Primary Care in our region
• Experience of working within a community, social care, or voluntary sector
• Has experience of supporting people in a paid or unpaid capacity

Desirable

• Aware of voluntary sector, community groups and statutory services locally
• Has safeguarding knowledge either level 2 or the equivalent experience
• Training in motivational coaching and interviewing or equivalent experience
• Has previously worked in a Primary Care setting
• Has managed a patient/client case load
• Has produced care plans for individuals

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

Yorkshire Health Partners Ltd

Address

The Park Surgery

6 Eastgate North

Driffield

YO25 6EB

Employer's website

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