Role: Community Link Worker (Social Prescribing)
Location: Amersham, Prestwood, Hughenden Valley, Great Missenden
Mid-Chiltern PCN (Rectory Meadow Surgery, Amersham Health Centre, John Hampden Surgery, Hughenden Valley Surgery, The Practice Prospect House)
Salary: £22,500 per annum
Hours: 37.5 per week (9am – 5pm)
Contract: Permanent
Introduction
Bucks Charitable Alliance (BCA) is a consortium of local charities, with an excellent track record of delivering high quality services in the communities they serve. Community Link Workers will be managed by staff with experience of social prescribing and have access to a range of training and personal development opportunities.
The Social Prescribing service will be delivered by Community Link Workers working from GP surgeries in Primary Care Network (PCN) areas. The Community Link Worker will be directly employed by Buckinghamshire Mind.
Purpose of the role
Social prescribing empowers people to take control of their health and wellbeing through GP referral to non-medical Community Link Workers (CLW’s) based in GP surgeries who give time, focus on ‘what matters to me’ and take a holistic approach, connecting people to community groups and statutory services for practical and emotional support. Community Link Workers work collaboratively with all local partners.
Social prescribing can help to strengthen community resilience and personal resilience and reduces health inequalities by addressing the wider determinants of health, such as debt, poor housing and physical inactivity, by increasing people’s active involvement with their local communities. It particularly works for people with long-term conditions (including support for mental health), for people who are lonely or isolated, or have complex social needs which affect their wellbeing.
Please refer to full job descriptions for further detail of the roles and requirements.
Employee Benefits
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and 2 wellbeing days
- Training and development opportunities
- Sodexo employee benefits - access to a portal with discounts on supermarket shops, holidays, high-street shops, days out, cinema and gym membership
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme – free professional confidential counselling
- Childcare vouchers
- Annual leave purchase scheme
- Flu vaccinations
- Free eye tests
- Pension: Auto Enrolment (currently 3% employee contribution, 3% employer contribution
Applications: Please send –
Supporting Statement and CV, detailing which role you wish to apply for, what skills and experience you have to match the job requirements. The short-listing panel make their decisions based on this information and no assumptions about your skills or experience will be made.
Closing date for applications is 20th August 2020.
Interviews expected to take place 25th & 26th August 2020.
Buckinghamshire Mind is an Equal Opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all sections of the community. Any offer made relating to this post will be subject to satisfactory references and a satisfactory enhanced DBS check.
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