Social Prescribing Link Worker for Woodsley and - Leeds, United Kingdom - South and East Leeds GP Group

South and East Leeds GP Group
South and East Leeds GP Group
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Leeds, United Kingdom

1 month ago

Tom O´Connor

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MAIN TASKS To promote the service within GP practices, developing close working relationships with the teams within practices and the Primary Care Network To provide a telephone assessment service to patients with low level depression and anxiety within agreed timeframes To appropriately risk assess patients to minimise harm and identify harm reduction where this is needed To complete referrals and signpost to specialist support quickly and effectively where necessary To provide short term interventions 2-4 appointments To enable patients to manage their own mental & emotional health by using coping strategies and challenging unhelpful behaviour patterns To develop collaborative action plans with individuals which promote choice and complement any medical treatment or advice To identify any barriers to people accessing services and activities and work with individuals to overcome these To use a range of techniques and interventions to support people, including those with long term conditions, to self-manage their health and encourage behavioural and lifestyle change To provide short term interventions to individuals to sustain them while waiting to access appropriate specialist provision To facilitate access to recommended community-based interventions and programmes of activity that benefit health and wellbeing To support administrative staff to develop their signposting skills, to ensure patients are directed to the most appropriate service To monitor and record contacts and outcomes within SystmOne & Emis To build networks with local community resources such as activities and services that may have an impact on mental health and wellbeing and support individuals to access these To develop multi-agency working across communities and voluntary and statutory organisations to improve health and address health inequality
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