Junior Social Prescribing Link Worker

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., 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.

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.

Newcastle GP Services (NGPS) is the GP federation for Newcastle-upon-Tyne. We are a member organisation for 27 out of the 28 general practices in Newcastle. Our role is to support them to provide excellent clinical care and a positive patient experience.

Were a skilled team of non-clinicians and clinicians with significant experience working in healthcare. We help practices work at scale across Newcastle, providing targeted and effective patient care and innovative methods of working to improve quality and efficiency.

You can find out more about NGPS and the services we offer on our website here:https://newcastle-gp-services.co.uk