Social Prescriber

Sudbury & West Suffolk Rural (S&WSR) Primary Care Network has an exciting opportunity for a social prescriber to join our practice team on a full-time basis for 16 hours per week.

Social prescribers are responsible for providing non-clinical support by linking patients to community and voluntary services across their area, adopting a holistic approach to supporting patients to improve their health and wellbeing. We are looking for someone to join our team in order to provide this service across S&WSR PCN at, Clare Guildhall, and Siam Sudbury Surgeries.

The successful candidate will be responsible for providing one-to-one support, identifying issues that impact on patients' health and wellbeing, developing personalised care and supporting plans to address their needs, making onward referrals to community and voluntary sector services, and recording patient outcomes.

For details of the responsibilities of the role, please see full job description attached.

If you are a local community champion or already a social prescriber, and want a new and exciting challenge, then we would love to hear from you.

You will need to have the following skills :

• Experience of working within healthcare, the voluntary or community sectors, supporting vulnerable groups;
• Ideally have Diploma Level 2/3 in Health and Social Care, psychology, sociology or public health.  or equivalent qualification or experience;
• Strong listening and communication skills;
• You will be familiar with local resources and services and how to access them;
• Motivated by helping people, with care and empathy;
• Ability to deliver person-centred support in a non-judgmental way;
• Experience of completing holistic, person-centred care-planning assessments;
• Understanding of the needs of small, volunteer-led community groups and the ability to support their development;
• Commitment to collaborative working with all local agencies;

Experience and confidence in the delivery of lifestyle change interventions.

S&WSR is a 4 practice PCN supporting over 24,500 patients. The culture is encouraging, supportive, forward thinking and there is a commitment to continually improving the quality of healthcare focusing on its patients.

• NHS pension
• 4 weeks annual leave (pro-rata)
• Supportive induction period

We are a regulated service under The Health and Social Care Act 2014 and therefore fall within the proposed regulation changes of 9 November 2021 which require staff who have face to face contact with patients to have completed a course of an approved COVID 19 vaccine, subject to limited exceptions, by no later than the 1st April 2022 .

Benefits:

• Competitive salary for this role, we are offering a salary depending on experience.
• We provide opportunities for training and development
• We offer membership of the NHS Pension Scheme
• Some of our sites have free on-site parking (subject to availability)

If you are interested in applying, please complete an application form, referring to how your skills, qualification, knowledge and experience match the requirements set out in the person specification in your supporting statement.

If you would like to have a conversation about the role, please contact Zara Nightingale - PCN Manager - [email protected]

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.