BCVS Social Prescribing Link Worker
# BCVS Social Prescribing Link Worker **BCVS** · Worksop South East S80 2BU · `On-site` 🕒 **Статус:** *Опубликовано: 6 дней назад* · *Источник: Indeed* --- ### About the Role Hours: 30 hours per week (0.8 FTE) Salary: £31,879 1FTE Contract Length: 12 months fixed term with extension subject to funding Accountable to: Hospital and Social Prescribing Team Lead (BCVS) and any supervising clinician Social prescribing link workers connect people to community-based support, including activities and services that meet practical, social, and emotional needs affecting their health and wellbeing. This includes connecting people to statutory services for example housing, financial and welfare advice. Social prescribing link workers work collaboratively across the health and care system, targeting populations with greatest need and risk of health inequalities. They collaborate with partners to identify gaps in provision and support community offers to be accessible and sustainable. The Social Prescribing Link Worker is a key part of the Hospital and Primary Care Network (PCN) multi-disciplinary teams in a complex, ever changing environment. Voluntary and community involvement is becoming more critical in demand management, self-care and the wider health and wellbeing of the community of Bassetlaw. Social prescribing can help health colleagues to strengthen community and personal resilience and reduces health and wellbeing inequalities by addressing the wider determinants of health, such as debt, poor housing and physical inactivity, by increasing people’s active involvement with their local communities. Particularly for Bassetlaw, it works for people with long term conditions (including support for mental health), and those people who are lonely or isolated. As such, the role requires someone with strong inter-personal skills, sound knowledge of the voluntary and community sector and social care environment, and someone who is both well organised and capable of operating at strategic and operational levels. Key Responsibilities and Deliverables 1. Respond to incoming referrals from a wide range of agencies, offering a bespoke service of support to navigate systems to meet individuals’ health and wellbeing needs. 2. Support and, where appropriate, lead project work within BCVS and local partnerships. 3. Effective regular liaison/communication with Hospital staff, PCN Practices and statutory partners, providing a two-way link with the voluntary and community sector. Provide support to develop effective and sustainable relationships with patients, the public and the voluntary and community sector. 4. Raise awareness of social prescribing and its benefits in reducing pressure on statutory services and improving health outcomes, proactively encouraging appropriate referrals. 5. Have a role in educating non-clinical and clinical staff within the Hospital and PCN multi-disciplinary teams on what other services are available within the community and how and when patients can access them. This may include verbal or written support and guidance. 6. Provide personalised support to service users, their families and carers to take control of their health and wellbeing, live independently and improve their health outcomes. Develop trusting relationships by giving people time and focus on ‘what matters to me’. 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 community groups and local health and social care services. 7. 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. It is vital that you have a strong awareness and understanding of when it is appropriate or necessary to refer people back to other health professionals/agencies, when the person’s needs are beyond the scope of the social prescribing link worker role – e.g. mental health need requiring a qualified practitioner. 8. Draw on and increase the strengths and capacities of local communities, supporting development of local voluntary organisations, social enterprise and community groups to enable them to receive social prescribing referrals. 9. Alongside other members of the Hospital and PCN multi-disciplinary teams, work collaboratively with all local partners to contribute towards supporting the local CVS organisations and community groups to become sustainable and that community assets are nurtured, through sharing intelligence regarding any gaps or problems identified in local provision with commissioners and local authorities. Explore and promote funding opportunities for relevant voluntary organisations and community groups from national, regional and local sources. Key Tasks Referrals · Build relationships with staff in Hospital and in GP practices within the PCN and attend relevant MDT meetings, giving information and feedback on social prescribing. · Promote social prescribing, its role in self-management, and the wider determinants of health. Encouraging appropriate referrals, and self-referrals. · Connect with local communities, particularly those that statutory agencies may struggle to reach. Provide Personalised Support · Meeting patients on a one-to-one basis, including home visits. Giving time for the patient to tell their story and focus on what matters to them. Build trust and provide non-judgmental support, respecting diversity, culture, and lifestyle choices. · Help patients to identify the wider issues that impact on their health and wellbeing, such as debt, poor housing, being unemployed, loneliness and caring responsibilities. Being a friendly source of information about health, wellbeing and prevention approaches. · Work with individuals to co-produce a simple personalised support plan – based on their priorities, interests, values and motivations – include what they can expect from the groups/activities/services they are being connected to, as well as self-help advice. Help the patient to maintain or regain independence through acquiring living skills, adaptations, enablement approaches and simple safeguards. · Consider the patients families and carers, including how they could all be supported through social prescribing. · Where appropriate provide supported, accompanied introductions to community groups, activities or services, ensuring patients are comfortable and able to engage confidently. · Explore the option of Personal Health Budgets for those who are eligible, as a way of providing funded, personalised support to be independent. · Seek advice and support from the GP supervisor to discuss patient-related concerns (e.g. abuse, domestic violence and support with mental health), referring the patient back to the GP or other suitable health professional if required. Support community groups and CVS organisations to receive referrals · Maintain and forge strong links by networking and engagement with relevant voluntary and community sector organisations. Provide a voice for the sector by co-ordinating a collective response to influence change and shape services. · Develop supportive relationships with local CVS organisations, community groups and statutory services, to make timely, appropriate and supported referrals for the person being introduced. · Support the maintenance of Bassetlaw CVS information website and internal CRM and databases. Work collectively with all local partners to ensure community groups are strong and sustainable · Work with commissioners and local partners to identify unmet needs within the community and gaps in community provision. · Encourage patients, their families and carers, who have been connected to community support through social prescribing to volunteer and give their time freely to others, providing peer support, building their skills and confidence, and strengthening community resilience. · Attendance at relevant BCVS internal and external events/meetings, as well as conferences and training events to promote social prescribing. · Provide appropriate feedback to BCVS Community Development and Volunteering team about any support needs of community groups receiving referrals to ensure that they are strong, sustained and have the support they need to be part of social prescribing. General Tasks Data Capture · Work sensitively with patients, their families and carers to capture key information, enabling tracking of the impact of social prescribing on their health and wellbeing using the Outcomes Star, which measure a patients motivation to change over time with appropriate social prescribing input. · Encourage feedback and ‘good news’ stories about the impact social prescribing has had on patients, their families and carers. Document case studies. · Work closely with the GP practices within the PCN to ensure that the social prescribing referral codes are input into the clinical systems, adhering to data protection legislation and data sharing agreements. · Production of relevant reports to both the Head of Service of BCVS and other statutory partners. · Input data into online systems as needed for funders, monitoring and BCVS statistics. Professional Development · Working with the Line Manager and any appropriate clinical supervisor to undertake continual personal and professional development. · Adhere to organisational policies and procedures including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance and health and safety. · Maintain the confidentiality of sensitive personal and organisational information, in line with the organisation’s confidentiality policy. · Work with the Line Manager and appropriate clinical supervisor to access regular ‘clinical supervision’ to enable effective management of the difficult issues that people present. Miscellaneous · Work as part of healthcare networks, internal teams and VCS partnerships to seek feedback for continuous service improvement. · Flexibility is required within the remit of this post and additional duties may be required from time to time, including evenings and weekends. · Duties may reasonably vary throughout the duration of any contract to reflect service demands and funding requirements. Current meetings / committee responsibilities · Involvement in Hospital and practice MDTs as required. · Involvement in Hospital and PCN meetings as required. · Involvement in the ICB engagement forums as appropriate to the role. · Involvement in community forums and meetings as requires. Pay: £31,879.00 per year Work Location: In person
Наблюдалась 2026-10-19, впервые 2026-10-13, источник — Indeed.