Social Prescriber
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 20/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves connecting patients with community activities, groups, and services to address their practical, social, and emotional needs affecting health and wellbeing. You will work within a multidisciplinary team, managing a caseload, and focusing on personalized care to empower patients to take control of their health. The position requires collaborating with community organizations to build a resource database and supporting GPs in identifying suitable patients for social prescribing.
Essential criteria
- Must be qualified to GCSE or above
- A health, social care, counseling or other relevant professional or academic qualification
Desirable criteria
- Degree level /similar in Health or a care discipline
- NHS experience health care provider or community services
- Worked previously in social prescribing
- Previously worked within primary care
- Knowledge and Skills
- Current clean driving licence
- Good communicator
- Skilful in networking
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Passion to help others
- Ability to work across multiple agencies in health and social care
- Work non judgementally with a wide cohort of people
- Demonstrate high levels of emotional intelligence
- Experience in giving Health advice to individuals
- Proven skills in collating information and data on community resources and organising these in up-to-date and accessible formats for a range of different service users from various communities.
- Excellent record keeping skills and the proven ability to write comprehensive reports for a variety of stakeholders.
- Excellent IT skills and ability to do own administration using database, Powerpoint, SystmOne, EMIS, and other IT packages.
- The ability to work autonomously and to plan, prioritise work under pressure and adapt to new models of working.
- A proven understanding of safeguarding for children and vulnerable adults and ability to implement relevant policies and procedures.
- Excellent holistic assessment as well as consultation skills and experience of providing empowering support to adults in a planned and structured way to improve health, recovery and well-being outcomes.
- Knowledge of social care systems
- Must be qualified to GCSE or above
- A health, social care, counseling or other relevant professional or academic qualification
- Degree level /similar in Health or a care discipline
- NHS experience health care provider or community services
- Worked previously in social prescribing
- Previously worked within primary care
- Knowledge and Skills
- Current clean driving licence
- Good communicator
- Skilful in networking
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Passion to help others
- Ability to work across multiple agencies in health and social care
- Work non judgementally with a wide cohort of people
- Demonstrate high levels of emotional intelligence
- Experience in giving Health advice to individuals
- Proven skills in collating information and data on community resources and organising these in up-to-date and accessible formats for a range of different service users from various communities.
- Excellent record keeping skills and the proven ability to write comprehensive reports for a variety of stakeholders.
- Excellent IT skills and ability to do own administration using database, Powerpoint, SystmOne, EMIS, and other IT packages.
- The ability to work autonomously and to plan, prioritise work under pressure and adapt to new models of working.
- A proven understanding of safeguarding for children and vulnerable adults and ability to implement relevant policies and procedures.
- Excellent holistic assessment as well as consultation skills and experience of providing empowering support to adults in a planned and structured way to improve health, recovery and well-being outcomes.
- Knowledge of social care systems
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £28,000 – £28,000 — matches the national scale.
Posted 6d ago · Closes in 14d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Southampton West PCN Limited
Social Prescriber
The closing date is 20 September 2026
Job summary
We are on a mission to reshape the way we work with our patients to provide personalised care. We are excited to be recruiting a Social Prescriber to join our Social Prescribing team and work within our growing wider team in Southampton West Primary Care Network. This role is pivotal to achieving the changes we are aiming for, and we are investing in creating a well-supported and expanding multi-disciplinary PCN team working across our diverse population.
As a Social Prescriber you will help patients connect to activities, groups, and services in the community to meet the practical, social and emotional needs that affect their health and wellbeing. The Social Prescriber role gives patients time, focusing on what matters to me?. The support allows patients to take control of their health and wellbeing.
Main duties of the job
Social Prescribers are a key part of our Primary Care Network multidisciplinary team. They work alongside our integrated team of Health & Wellbeing Coaches, Peer Support Workers, Mental Health Practitioners and Care Coordinators to provide an all-encompassing approach to personalised care and promote and embed the personalised care approach across the PCN.
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