Social Prescriber

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Social Prescriber to join our well established Wellbeing Team within the practice. Working 25-30hrs per week.

The Social Prescriber will work as part of a multidisciplinary team in a patient facing (non clinical) role. Providing a service to patients of all ages. Signposting patients to activities, groups and services in their community to meet the practical, social and emotional needs that can affect their health and wellbeing.

They will work with individual patients in the surgery, within the community or patients own home. As well as facilitating community groups when required.

This role is part of the Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service (DES) - Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme for Primary Care Networks.

Interviews for this post will take place on 2nd July 2025.

Main duties of the job

• Act as the point of contact for social prescribing referrals, communicating with patients by phone or in person.
• Support patients and carers to access services or activities relevant to their needs
• Work as part of a Multidisciplinary Team (MDT), attending local authority and VCSE meetings to discuss complex care cases, supporting colleagues to deliver excellent care at the appropriate time
• Connect with patients to improve health and wellbeing, introducing or reconnecting patients to community groups and statutory services
• Work in partnership with all local agencies to raise awareness of social prescribing and how partnership working can reduce pressure on statutory services, improve health outcomes and enable a holistic approach to care. Be proactive in encouraging self-referrals and connecting with all local communities.
• Give patients a voice, ensuring they influence operational and strategic direction of the service
• Be a key point of contact for all non-clinical referrals within the wellbeing team
• Work sensitively and confidentially with people, their families, and carers
• Support the Wellbeing Team to manage and organise the practices, Health Champion volunteers.
• Attend team meetings, 1:1 reviews and wider practice meetings as required

About us

We are a thriving Practice including six GP partners. A well-established team including Salaried and Retained GPs, ANPs, Multiskilled Nursing Team, Pharmacy, Wellbeing Team and Mental Health Nurse. All supported by a fantastic Care Navigation and Admin Team. Providing high quality primary healthcare to a rural population of over 13,000 patients. We are innovative and forward-thinking practice and like to work collaboratively with our team and external partners to provide the best possible care to our patients.

Our practice is a friendly welcoming place to work, where you will feel part of a strong and supportive workforce. We pride ourselves on staff wellbeing. This being fundamental to the ethos of the Practice.

We offer an attractive annual leave entitlement, regular one to one meetings and yearly performance and development reviews. Birthday leave, paid sick leave after probationary period, and paid dependency leave (subject to management discussion). We also offer various social events throughout the year.

The Practice is an equal opportunities employer, and will not discriminate on the grounds of disability, sex, sexual orientation, race, religion or similar belief, or age.

Applicants applying for this role currently registered at Gillingham Medical Practice will be required to register with neighbouring practice if successful.

If you have not heard back from the Practice within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been successful.