Social Prescribing Link Worker
| Posting date: | 22 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £28,000.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £28000.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 October 2025 |
| Location: | Sheffield, S6 1TT |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A0580-25-0001 |
Summary
KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Receive referrals from the GP practices within the PCN and from a range of agencies, assessing the health and wellbeing needs of patients with in-practice consultations, telephone consultations, and community-based support e.g. home visits and community service events 2. Effectively manage and prioritise a patient caseload, communicating with patients, carers, advocates, healthcare professionals, and other agencies involved in the wellbeing of patients 3. Provide care within own competence, ensuring awareness of when it is necessary to seek advice or refer patients back to colleagues or other healthcare professionals 4. Work with patients to co-produce a personalised care and support plan, taking a holistic approach to address individual needs based on the patients priorities, interests, values, and motivations 5. Provide appropriate support and information to patients to empower them to take control of their wellbeing, live independently, and improve their health outcomes. This includes building trust with patients to help identify wider issues that may be impacting their health e.g. housing problems, debt, unemployment, loneliness, and caring responsibilities 6. Communicate effectively with patients to ensure they are aware of what to expect from onward referrals and participation with different services, groups or activities. Demonstrate sensitive communication styles and work non-judgementally with patients, their families, and carers, to capture important information 7. Physically introduce people to appropriate community groups and activities, peer support groups, or statutory services, ensuring they are comfortable, feel valued and respected 8. Promote social prescribing as an approach across the PCN and in the wider community, supporting community groups to be accessible and sustainable 9. Develop a strong knowledge of local services to enable patients to access a range of services to meet their needs. Support patients to meaningfully engage and connect with their local community and other organisations 10. Work closely with the PCN Occupational Therapist and collaborate well with the wider PCN and practice teams. Attend relevant meetings and provide updates and feedback on social prescribing to staff 11. Proactively build links with a range of local voluntary and community organisations and other healthcare professionals within the wider neighbourhood team 12. Encourage patients, their families and carers to provide feedback e.g. through patient satisfaction surveys, and to share their stories about the impact of social prescribing on their lives 13. Ensure that social prescribing referral SNOMED codes are coded appropriately into clinical systems (as outlined in the Network Contract DES) 14. Adhere to PCN policies around data protection legislation and data sharing agreements, ensuring patients give appropriate consent GENERAL TASKS Work with your line manager to undertake continual personal and professional development. Undertake relevant training as required and complete appropriate mandatory training. Continually update own knowledge and skills within the job role. Adhere to organisational policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety. Undertake any tasks consistent with the level of the post and the scope of the role, ensuring that work is delivered in a timely and effective manner. Duties may vary from time to time, without changing the general character of the post or the level of responsibility.