Social Prescriber
| Posting date: | 19 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 January 2026 |
| Location: | Sturminster Newton, DT10 1QU |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A2355-25-0017 |
Summary
See attachment for full job description. This involves a wide range of responsibilities including: Liaise with people registered at the practice, their families/representatives, healthcare professionals, social services and GPs to ensure that their care & support needs are being met. Assess, plan, develop, implement, and evaluate non-clinical support that promote health & wellbeing. Work with patients to support adherence to prescribed clinical treatments. Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that encourage people to live healthily and apply principles of self-care and self-management. Provide telephone support or home visits when the need arises. Provide information to the practice to aid timely assessment and management of peoples care & support needs. Maintain electronic records within peoples clinical systems for audit purposes. Keep information regarding patients and their families secure and confidential. Talk to people, their carers or representatives about their care and support needs, taking into account different communication needs and levels of understanding. Identify and support people who lack capacity in best interest decision making. Attend multidisciplinary meetings as required to offer support around non-clinical care. Ensure working patterns are efficient and well planned. Effectively prioritise tasks to meet unexpected emergencies and changes in working arrangements. Communicate effectively with colleagues and other members of the practice team regarding peoples well-being. Identify and establish contact with patients, families and carers who may benefit from Social Prescriber interventions. Give people time to explain their situation and focus on what matters to me. Build trust by providing non-judgemental support, respecting diversity and lifestyle choices. Work from a strength-based approach focusing on a persons assets. Increase the scale and impact of simple lifestyle advice in Primary Care. Be a key part of our multidisciplinary team, working collaboratively with clinical and non-clinical colleagues to provide the best possible services to registered patients and their families. Actively support our Health Champion volunteers programme, linking people together for peer-support, self-help and community health & wellbeing. Support Children and Young People, and their families will any non-clinical support they may need after understanding what support they currently have Work with the Local Alliance Group to help form the pathway for Children and Young People in