Social Prescribing Link Worker

Job summary

Are you interested in a career with a genuinely integrated care organisation? Do you want to be part of a new organisation that is developing pathways and services to transform the way that care is delivered locally? Are you interested in improving the health of our local population? If your answer is yes to any of these questions, then we are looking for you.

Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS Trust (DIHC) is the first Integrated Care Provider in the country. It was launched in April 2020 following a period of development and integrates primary care with community services within the Dudley healthcare system. Our core aim is Dudley First, community where possible and hospital where necessary, and our purpose is to improve the health and wellbeing of our local population in Dudley.

The post holder will deliver a high standard of patient care and assist with patients across all GP practices that we serve. Your role will be to help our patients to get the best out of the local services including local charities, third sector, council and GP surgeries/ other NHS services. This also includes facilitating the creation of local groups

Main duties of the job

An extensive list of the main duties for this post can be found on the attached job description however as a Social prescriber for the PCN you can except to undertake main duties will such as:

• Aiming to reduce social isolation
• Offer financial help to our patient group
• Offer support to carers and family guidance
• Signposting patients to the appropriate services
• Create social groups within the PCN
• Create teams of helpers and volunteers for the elderly i.e. shopping, bringing to GP appointments, travel to social groups
• Meet with and follow up patients to develop and review a relevant social prescribing care plan.

About us

We are looking for exceptional individuals with the drive and enthusiasm to change how healthcare is delivered and make a real difference to the people we serve.

DIHC is committed to embracing diversity and we recognise the need to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities we serve to enable us to achieve our purpose and commitments.

We recognise that we are under-represented in a number of areas, and therefore want to positively encourage applications from individuals from black, Asian or other ethnically diverse groups, people with disabilities and people from the LGBT community.

We are embedding values based and inclusive recruitment practices to ensure that all applicants, from any backgrounds, have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us.

Anyone that works with us will share in our commitments and promote and uphold them throughout their daily activities.

Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHS Trust presents the unique opportunity to welcome staff into a new type of NHS Trust where they can work in partnership with others to create A Great Place to Work. For more information, please look at our website www.dihc.nhs.uk

At DIHC we will consider requests for flexible working where possible and dependent on the service needs. For most roles, the following types of flexibility are possible: flexible hours, working from home, compressed hours and more.