CYP Social Prescriber Burgess Hill PCNNHS

Job summary

Burgess Hill & Villages PCN is looking to employ a Children and Young People's Social Prescriber on either a full time or part time basis. This exciting role is an integral part of the Primary Care team, and as such, the successful post holder will continue to work as part of our current CYPSP service, as well as having the responsibility for collecting user feedback and adapting the role to suit the needs of the users in line with the Thrive model.

The role is primarily to work with children and young people aged up to 19 years (up to 24 years old for users with Learning Difficulties) but may also involve work with their parents/carers. You will work closely with the GP practices, schools and colleges (if required) and a range of established services to provide a range of support for children, young people and their families and deliver the appropriate level of support at the right time.

Main duties of the job

Social prescribing empowers people to take control of their health and wellbeing through referral to a non-medical link worker who gives time, focuses on what matters to me and takes a holistic approach, connecting people to community groups and statutory services for practical and emotional support. Link workers support existing groups to be accessible and sustainable and help people to start new community groups, working collaboratively with all local partners. Social prescribing can help to strengthen personal and community resilience and reduces health inequalities. It addresses the wider determinants of health, such as debt, poor housing, and physical inactivity, by increasing peoples active involvement with their local communities.

Job description

• Provide personalised support to children and young people aged up to 19 years (up to 24 years old for users with Learning Difficulties) to enable them to take control of their wellbeing, live independently and improve their health outcomes.
• Accept referrals from a wide range of agencies including GP practices within primary care networks.
• Signpost young people and their families to appropriate community-based services after they have been assessed by a BHV PCN GP.
• 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.
• 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.
• Work closely with established services such as YMCA and the school-based mental health support teams, as well as the Childrens community health provider, in order to ease cross referral processes and provide the post holder with peer support.
• 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 and out of 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.

Benefits

• Generous annual leave allowance
• Access to NHS pension
• Bespoke training programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced maternity pay
• NHS discounts
• Leadership Development Programme
• Salary sacrifice schemes technology and electric vehicle
• Opportunities for secondments

Study Leave/Training

There are opportunities for a study leave allowance.

Supervision

Regular supervisions on a one-to-one basis including an annual formal appraisal are held with a line manager. If you are in a patient-facing role, you will also receive regular Clinical Supervisions with a Clinical Supervisor.

Induction Programme

You will receive an in-depth induction programme and will be invited to a face-to-face induction day within your first week to give you relevant information about the organisation and your job role.

For further information, please see the full job description.

About us

About Alliance for Better Care CIC

Alliance for Better Care (ABC) is a GP Federation uniting 77 NHS GP member practices across 98 sites within 24 Primary Care Networks in Sussex and Surrey. We support our Primary Care colleagues and their patients to transform how healthcare is delivered in their communities.

We work closely with GP Practices, PCNs, Hospitals, Community Organisations, and the Third Sector. These vital partnerships enable us to deliver a truly integrated approach that offers the support and expertise needed to effectively serve our populations.

About Burgess Hill and Villages PCN

Burgess Hill and Villages Primary Care Network is an NHS collaboration between four GP practices - Brow Medical Centre, Meadows Surgery, Mid Sussex Health Care and Silverdale Practice - working together to provide enhanced access services.

Our surgery teams work closely, sharing expertise and resources to develop new services. Our vision is to continue to improve the quality of care that we provide in alignment with the needs of our patient population.

Our PCN builds on the existing primary care services and enables a greater provision of proactive, personalised and more integrated health and social care. We are supported by practitioners in additional roles who allow us to create bespoke multi-disciplinary teams based on the needs of our local population. By working together with local community services, this allows us to make support available to people where it is most needed.