Children and Young Persons Social Prescriber
| Posting date: | 24 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 January 2026 |
| Location: | Havant, PO9 1DQ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | A5217-25-0011 |
Summary
Provide personalised support to children and young people aged 5 to 18 to enable them to take control of their wellbeing and improve their health outcomes. Provide personalised support to individuals, their families and carers enabling them to take control of their wellbeing, live independently and improve their health outcomes. Accept referrals from GP practices within our Primary Care Network. Signpost young people and their families to appropriate community-based services. Meet young people on a one-to-one basis and give them time to tell their stories and focus on what matters to me. Build trust with the person, providing non-judgemental support, respecting diversity, and lifestyle choices. Work from a strength-based approach focusing on a persons assets. Offer between 1 and 6 sessions for up to an hour, face-to-face or virtual and offer follow up where needed. Co-produce a personalised support plan to improve health and wellbeing, introducing, connecting, and supporting young people to community groups and statutory services. Ensure all necessary data and information about patients are recorded accurately and confidentially with awareness of information governance best practice. Help young people identify the wider issues that impact on their health and wellbeing, such as debt, poor housing, being unemployed, loneliness and caring responsibilities. Form links with local Schools and other community enterprises. Provide earlier intervention whilst waiting or avoiding the need to wait for triage from other services. Have a good understanding of and utilise the THRIVE delivery model in sessions, which conceptualises the mental health and wellbeing needs of children, young people and families in terms of five different needs-based groupings: getting advice, getting help, getting more help, getting risk support, and thriving. Work closely and communicate with other agency partners such as schools, Community Development Workers, Local Area Coordinators, Targeted Youth Service and Family Support Teams when necessary to ensure the local system is working in a joined-up way to provide the young person(s) with holistic care. Where necessary, physically introduce people to community groups, activities, and statutory services, ensuring they are comfortable. Follow up to ensure they are happy, able to engage, included and receiving good support. Work sensitively with young people to capture key information, enabling tracking of the impact of social prescribing on their health and wellbeing. Encourage young people to provide feedback and to share their stories about the impact of social prescribing on their lives. Manage and prioritise your own caseload, in accordance with the needs, priorities and support required by individuals on the caseload. Work closely with the safeguarding lead to ensure any issues and concerns are escalated and dealt with quickly and effectively. Refer young people back to other health professionals/agencies, when their needs are beyond the scope of the link worker role e.g., when there is a mental health need requiring a qualified practitioner. Build relationships with key staff in GP practices within the local Primary Care Network (PCN), attending relevant meetings, becoming part of the wider network team, giving information and feedback on social prescribing. Organise and help support weekly MDTs (multi-disciplinary team). Be able to work flexibly in-hours. Support the Primary Care Network in reducing inequalities by proactively seeking engagement from Children and Young People who may require early intervention and support. Participate in regular clinical supervision with a GP.