Job summary

Sudbury & West Suffolk Rural (S&WSR) Primary Care Network hasanexcitingopportunity for a social prescriber to join our practice teamon afull-time basis for 16 hours per week.

Social prescribers are responsible for providing non-clinical support by linking patients to community and voluntary services across their area, adopting a holistic approach to supporting patients to improve their health and wellbeing.We are looking for someone to join our team in order to provide this service across S&WSR PCN at, Clare Guildhall, and Siam Sudbury Surgeries.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be responsible for providing one-to-one support, identifying issues that impact on patients' health and wellbeing, developing personalised care and supporting plans to address their needs, making onward referrals to community and voluntary sector services, and recording patient outcomes.

About us

S&WSR is a 4 practice PCN supporting over 24,500 patients. The culture is encouraging, supportive, forward thinking and there is a commitment to continually improving the quality of healthcare focusing on its patients.

• NHS pension
• 4 weeks annual leave (pro-rata)
• Supportive induction period

We are a regulated service under The Health and Social Care Act 2014 and therefore fall within the proposed regulation changes of 9 November 2021 which require staff who have face to face contact with patients to have completed a course of an approved COVID 19 vaccine, subject to limited exceptions, by no later than the 1st April 2022 .

Benefits:

• Competitive salary for this role, we are offering a salary depending on experience.
• We provide opportunities for training and development
• We offer membership of the NHS Pension Scheme
• Some of our sites have free on-site parking (subject to availability)

If you are interested in applying, please complete an application form, referring to how your skills, qualification, knowledge and experience match the requirements set out in the person specification in your supporting statement.