Social Prescriber- South Bucks Primary Care Network - Denham, United Kingdom - FedBucks Ltd

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South Bucks Primary Care Network

Denham Medical Centre, Denham and Aysgarth Surgery, Iver Heath

Salary -£24,907 WTE depending on experience


Working hours:25 hours per week across 5 days


NHS Pension

33 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays WTE

Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility

  • As a key member of the PCN's team of health professionals, ensure that referrals from the PCN's Core Network Practices and from a wide range of agencies are dealt with appropriately and support is offered for the health and wellbeing of patients.
  • Constantly assess how far a patient's health and wellbeing needs can be met by services and other opportunities available in the community.
  • Devise and validate the ongoing Directory of Services for patients within the community. Ensure this is accurate and up to date as a constantly evolving point of reference.
  • Support Social Prescribers within your network to coproduce a simple personalised care and support plan to address the patient's health and wellbeing needs by introducing or reconnecting people to community groups and statutory services, including weight management support and signposting where appropriate and it matters to the person.
  • Evaluate how far the actions in the care and support plan are meeting the patient's health and wellbeing needs.
  • Provide personalised support to patients, their families, and carers to take control of their health and wellbeing, live independently, improve their health outcomes, and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
  • Develop trusting relationships by giving people time and focus on 'what matters to them'.
  • Take a holistic approach, based on the patient's priorities and the wider determinants of health.
  • Explore and support access to a personal health budget where appropriate.
- manage and prioritise own caseload, in accordance with the health and wellbeing needs of their population.

  • Where required and as appropriate, refer patients back to other health professionals within the PCN.
  • Meet people on a onetoone basis, making home visits where appropriate. Give people time to tell their stories and focus on 'what matters to me'. Build trust with the person, providing nonjudgmental support, respecting diversity, and lifestyle choices. Work from a strengthbased approach focusing on a person's assets.
  • Be a friendly source of information about wellbeing and prevention approaches. Help people identify the wider issues that impact on their health and wellbeing, such as debt, poor housing, being unemployed, loneliness and caring responsibilities.
  • Help people maintain or regain independence through living skills, adaptations, enablement approaches and simple safeguards.
  • Work with individuals to coproduce a simple personalised support plan based on the person's priorities, interests, values and motivations including what they can expect from the groups, activities and services they are being connected to and what the person can do for themselves to improve their health and wellbeing.
  • Where appropriate, physically introduce people to community groups, activities, and statutory services, ensuring they are comfortable. Follow up to ensure they are happy, able to engage, included and receiving good support.
  • Where people may be eligible for a personal health budget, help them to explore this option as a way of providing funded, personalised support to be independent, including helping people to gain skills for meaningful employment, where appropriate.
  • Must be able to travel by own car between all Primary Care Network locations and patient's homes.

KEY REQUIREMENTS

  • NVQ Level 3, Advanced level or equivalent qualifications or working towards
  • Evidence of recent and relevant Continuing Professional Development
  • Training in motivational coaching and interviewing or equivalent experience
  • Experience of supporting people, their families, and carers in a related role (including unpaid work)
We are a federation of 45 GP practices covering a population of over 485,000 patients across Buckinghamshire.

We began in 2016 and now employ around 200 members of staff across our head office sites, and our planned and unplanned care services.


As a GP Federation, we are proud to represent our member practices and to champion primary care by working with local general practice and system partners in the provision of community-based healthcare services.

We are dedicated to providing safe and compassionate care to our patients across our range of primary and unplanned healthcare services in Buckinghamshire, and believe in continuous commitment to quality service delivery and positive patient outcomes.


Patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves in ensuring our patients feel safe, supported, communicated with and respected, at a time when they may be feeling vulnerable.

Our vision is to provide high quality, seamless health care that enables people to
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