Social Prescribing Link Worker

High Peak Social Prescribing works with adults, young people and families to increase their active involvement in their local communities. It can strengthen resilience at both a personal and community level, and it reduces health and wellbeing inequalities by supporting people to address the wider determinants of health such as debt, poor housing and physical inactivity, including vulnerable adults.

It works for people with long term conditions (including support for mental health) and those people who are lonely or isolated. This role of Social Prescriber works across the High Peak (excluding Glossop and the Hope Valley) and links patients referred from GP surgeries and other agencies with appropriate services and support from statutory, local community and voluntary non-profit sector, service providers.

• Undertake home and community visits, co-producing wellbeing action plans, focussing on asset building, prevention and self-management.
• Help people identify the wider issues that impact on their health and wellbeing, such as loneliness, self care, poverty, poor housing, being unemployed, and caring responsibilities and link them to appropriate services and support.
• Support people to live independently and improve their health and wellbeing outcomes. Develop trusting relationships and taking a holistic approach, based on the person’s priorities and the wider determinants of health.
• Introduce people to community groups, activities and statutory services, ensuring they are comfortable.
• Be creative in finding solutions that harness assets and resources which are already available and are low cost/non funding-dependent.
• Support the local mapping of community-based services, assets and services
• Promote social prescribing, its role in self-management, and the wider determinants of health.
• Attend relevant meetings such as, MDT's to become part of the wider network team, giving information and feedback on social prescribing.
• Forge strong links with local voluntary and community organisations and neighbourhood level groups, utilising their networks and building on what’s already available to create a map or menu of community groups and assets.
• Input accurate records in a timely manner on established data record systems
• Adhere to GDPR and Data Protection requirements at all times.
• Production of relevant reports to both the Line Manager and other if appropriate.
• Adhere to organisational policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety.
• Contributing to the core functions of High Peak CVS
• Some flexibility is required as attendance at evening and weekend meetings and events may be necessary occasionally.
• Travel is a vital part of the role across the whole of the High Peak.