Seacroft PCN Care Homes Social Prescribing Link Worker in Leeds inLeeds PUBLISHED MON 9 JUN 2025 Jump to job information section

The hours for this role are 30 per week

Job Purpose

The Care Homes Social Prescribing Link Worker will be an integrated member of a broad primary care team at Seacroft PCN. They will work within The Care Homes Team supporting residents across three practices Park Edge Practice, Oakwood Lane Medical Practice and Windmill Health Centre

Main Duties and Responsibilities: the below are not exhaustive and may include other reasonable duties and responsibilities

The post holder will support individuals to build independence and personal resilience, enabling self management of their health and wellbeing. Key to the role will be the ability to build trusting relationships quickly whilst motivating individuals to make sustained changes, working sensitively and overcoming barriers.

Social Prescribing Link Workers will build and develop relationships with a wide range of services and activities in order to address social and health care needs, signposting and offering support to individuals to participate and benefit from community-based activity.

Blood tests requested on ICE following direction from a clinician.

Phlebotomy in 3 out of the 5 care homes covered by Oakwood Lane and Park Edge Practice

Blood form printing and delivering to care homes.

Blood pressure taking following a request.

Takes the lead for proactively organising the data collection for annual health monitoring of all care home residents.

About us

Confidentiality:

In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately

In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential

Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data

Health & Safety:

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety policy, the practice Health & Safety manual, and the practice Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will include:

Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines

Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks

Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills

Keeping own work areas and general patient areas generally clean, assisting in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness consistent with the scope of the job holders role

Reporting potential risks identified

Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

Equality and Diversity:

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation

Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues

Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal and Professional Development:

The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the PCN as part of this employment, such training to include:

Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development

Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work

Quality:

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:

Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk

Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision

Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance

Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs

Effectively manage own time, workload and resources

Communication:

The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

Communicate effectively with other team members

Communicate effectively with patients and carers

Recognize peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly

Contribution to the Implementation of Services:

The post-holder will:

Apply practice policies, standards and guidance

Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work

Participate in audit where appropriate