social worker Macclesfield, England
Job description
We are looking for a full time Social Prescribing Link Worker to join our multi-disciplinary team within the Macclesfield Primary Care Network.
As a Social Prescriber you will be providing 1:1 personalised support to patients, linking people to sources of support within the community and empowering them to take control over their own health.
You will build trusting relationships with people and work together to create a shared personalised care and support plan, focusing on what really matters to them.
You must be a good listener, have time for people and be committed to supporting local communities to care for each other. You should have experience of working with people facing complex social and emotional challenges, and you will need great interpersonal skills in supporting people from a wide range of backgrounds, community groups and local organisations.
Please email for more information about the role, the job description and person specification.
Main duties of the job
As part of the Social Prescribing team you will:
- Provide individual support to patients to support them to improve their health and wellbeing. This could be done via phone, face-to-face or home visits, as appropriate.
- Proactively manage and prioritise an individual caseload of patients, supporting them to focus on "what matters to me", and linking them to sources of support within the local community.
- Take a holistic approach to help people identify the wider issues that are impacting on their health and wellbeing, and together produce a personalised support plan.
- Encourage people to carry out the goals set out in their plan, and ensure they have the support they need to achieve these goals.
- Forge strong links with a wide range of local VCSE and community organisations.
- Promote the Social Prescribing service to patients and staff within the six practices of the Primary Care Network.
Essential
- The ability to build relations with key internal and external stakeholders
- Well-developed interpersonal skills
- Organisational skills
- Excellent time management skills
- Excellent literacy and numeracy skills
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to solve problems and implement action plans
- Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports.
- Experience working with vulnerable populations
- Ability to listen, empathise with people and provide person-centred support in a non-judgemental way
- Ability to support people in a way that inspires trust and confidence, motivating others to reach their potential
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with people, their families, carers, community groups and stakeholders
- Ability to multi-task and work without direct supervision
- Ability to work well in an multi-skilled team
- Able to apply confidentiality, tact and diplomacy
- Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk
- Ability to demonstrate initiative, resourcefulness and common sense
- Ability to organise, plan and prioritise on own workload, including when under pressure and meeting deadlines
- Willingness to work towards professional and performance objectives
- Ability to demonstrate personal accountability, emotional resilience and work well under pressure
- Flexible approach to undertaking a wide variety of tasks
- Flexible with regard to changing priorities
- Willingness to work flexible hours when required to meet work demands
- Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including to visit people in their own homes
Desirable
- Knowledge of clinical systems (Emis)
- Safeguarding Training
- Knowledge of the personalised care approach
- Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic and environmental factors and their impact on communities
- Experience of data collection and providing monitoring information to assess the impact of services
- Experience working as a community Navigator/ Link Worker/ Social Prescriber
- Experience in delivering training to user groups / staff teams
Overview of the Organisation:
With demand for health and care services increasing as we get older, GP practices across the country are working together to provide their local communities with a resilient and high quality healthcare service. Facilitating this joint working in our community is the Macclesfield Primary Care Network.
Our Network brings together the practices of Waters Green Medical Centre to develop high quality healthcare services for all our patients in a convenient and reliable setting. By building upon existing primary care services, we can provide a greater provision of proactive, personalised and more integrated health and social care.
Vernova Healthcare is an employing authority for the NHS pension scheme and all employees have access to the scheme.
Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months
Salary: £27,055.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Application question(s):
- Give evidence of how you gained each of the essential criteria and a situation where you've used them :-
Education:
- GCSE or equivalent (required)
Experience:
- healthcare environment / voluntary and community: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 14/07/2023
