Junior Social Prescribing Link Worker inNewcastle upon Tyne inNewcastle upon Tyne PUBLISHED 4 DEC 2023
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Most people at some point in their life may benefit from navigation through encounters with different health services, agencies and professionals, across an often-confusing seascape of health, social and community care. Effective navigation is a key element of delivering coordinated, person-centered care and support.
Junior Social Prescribing Link Workers can play a crucial role in helping people to get the right support, at the right time to help manage a wide range of needs. This may include support with long-term conditions, social and welfare needs which may be supported in-house or signposting to a range of statutory and voluntary sector services.
Please see the attached Job Description for more information about the role and your duties and responsibilities.
We are seeking to appoint a Junior Social Prescribing Link Worker, based in multiple GP practices across Newcastle, to help support patients to access local services helping them meet their non-medical needs. Junior Social Prescribers play a crucial role in helping people to get the right support at the right time. Support offered by the Social Prescribing Service may include support with things such as the management of long-term conditions, housing and benefit needs, social isolation, and any other practical or social support necessary.
The successful candidate will have a genuine interest in improving patient outcomes, will be able to work independently under pressure without direct supervision and will be calm and professional when supporting patients.
The Junior Social Prescriber role is to support patients with advice either in house, or to signpost patients for advice from community and voluntary sector services.
This post is Full Time, and is a 12 month fixed term contract subject to funding continuation.
We ask that applicants are open to working overtime when necessary and must have a professional approach to work. The successful applicant will be confident, assertive and have excellent communication skills.
All training will be provided to fully equip the job-holder with the necessary skills for the role.
Our Junior Social Prescribing Link Workers help and support patients by signposting them to sources of support in the community. This may include, help with finance, housing, lifestyle, mobility, social and general advice. We work with more than 100 health, social care, and voluntary sector partners to provide this service.
The main duties of the role are the following:
1. Manage your own patient caseload
2.Receive and self-manage ongoing referrals into the service
3. Deliver high quality support to patients in a timely fashion
4. Signpost patients to relevant services and support them to access these services
5. Maintain accurate data recording within GP clinical systems
6. Attend team meetings and network independently with voluntary and community sector services.
Most people at some point in their life may benefit from navigation through encounters with different health services, agencies and professionals, across an often-confusing seascape of health, social and community care. Effective navigation is a key element of delivering coordinated, person-centered care and support.
Junior Social Prescribing Link Workers can play a crucial role in helping people to get the right support, at the right time to help manage a wide range of needs. This may include support with long-term conditions, social and welfare needs which may be supported in-house or signposting to a range of statutory and voluntary sector services.
Please see the attached Job Description for more information about the role and your duties and responsibilities.
We are seeking to appoint a Junior Social Prescribing Link Worker, based in multiple GP practices across Newcastle, to help support patients to access local services helping them meet their non-medical needs. Junior Social Prescribers play a crucial role in helping people to get the right support at the right time. Support offered by the Social Prescribing Service may include support with things such as the management of long-term conditions, housing and benefit needs, social isolation, and any other practical or social support necessary.
The successful candidate will have a genuine interest in improving patient outcomes, will be able to work independently under pressure without direct supervision and will be calm and professional when supporting patients.
The Junior Social Prescriber role is to support patients with advice either in house, or to signpost patients for advice from community and voluntary sector services.
This post is Full Time, and is a 12 month fixed term contract subject to funding continuation.
We ask that applicants are open to working overtime when necessary and must have a professional approach to work. The successful applicant will be confident, assertive and have excellent communication skills.
All training will be provided to fully equip the job-holder with the necessary skills for the role.
Our Junior Social Prescribing Link Workers help and support patients by signposting them to sources of support in the community. This may include, help with finance, housing, lifestyle, mobility, social and general advice. We work with more than 100 health, social care, and voluntary sector partners to provide this service.
The main duties of the role are the following:
1. Manage your own patient caseload
2.Receive and self-manage ongoing referrals into the service
3. Deliver high quality support to patients in a timely fashion
4. Signpost patients to relevant services and support them to access these services
5. Maintain accurate data recording within GP clinical systems
6. Attend team meetings and network independently with voluntary and community sector services.
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