Social Prescribing Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 20/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves shaping and delivering social prescribing services within Spectrum's prison healthcare. The practitioner will work with patients, healthcare teams, and community partners to create personalised wellbeing plans and connect individuals to support. Key aspects include developing referral pathways, mapping community assets, and using feedback to improve services. The aim is to help patients overcome barriers and access practical, social, and emotional support for their health and recovery.
Key responsibilities
- Co-produce personalised wellbeing plans with patients.
- Connect individuals safely to meaningful activities, peer support, and wider services.
- Develop referral pathways and map local community assets.
- Support purposeful activity and strengthen through-the-gate links.
- Collect and use feedback and outcome information to improve service delivery.
- Manage a caseload and undertake holistic strengths-based conversations.
Essential criteria
- Relevant degree, professional qualification or equivalent experience in social prescribing, health and wellbeing, community development, public health, health or social care.
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to personalised care and social prescribing.
- Experience of working in or alongside health, care, VCSE, community or inclusion health services.
- Practical understanding of social prescribing, personalised care and strengths-based approaches
- Experience of supporting people with complex needs, disadvantage or barriers to access.
- Experience of partnership working and developing referral pathways across organisational boundaries
- Experience of collecting activity and outcome information and producing clear reports.
- Understanding of safeguarding, confidentiality, professional boundaries, risk management and escalation.
- Experience of managing a caseload and providing personalised support over multiple contacts.
- Experience of referral triage, holistic assessment, personalised support planning, review and safe discharge.
- Understanding of the distinction between active signposting, social prescribing, health and wellbeing coaching and care coordination.
- Experience of using coaching or motivational interviewing techniques.
- o Experience of working with VCSE organisations, peer support or community assets.
Desirable criteria
- Training in health coaching, motivational interviewing, behaviour change or care navigation
- Membership of a relevant professional network or register, where applicable.
- Experience in prison healthcare, criminal justice or another secure environment.
- Experience of through-the-gate or resettlement pathways.
- Experience of co-production, peer support or lived-experience programmes.
- Experience of using SystmOne or a comparable clinical information system.
- Knowledge of health inequalities, Core20PLUS5 and health and justice priorities.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Spectrum Community Health CIC
Social Prescribing Practitioner
The closing date is 20 September 2026
Job summary
Are you passionate about improving health, wellbeing and opportunity for people who may face significant barriers to support? This is an exciting opportunity to shape and deliver a consistent social prescribing offer across Spectrum's prison services, helping patients access the practical, social and emotional support that can make a real difference to their health and recovery.
As Social Prescribing Practitioner, you will work with patients, healthcare teams, prison colleagues, VCSE partners and community services to understand "what matters" to individuals, co-produce personalised wellbeing plans and connect people safely to meaningful activities, peer support and wider services. You will also play a key role in developing referral pathways, mapping local assets, supporting purposeful activity, strengthening through-the-gate links and using feedback and outcome information to improve the service.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for someone with experience in social prescribing, personalised care, health and wellbeing, community development, public health, health or social care. You will bring excellent communication and relationship-building skills, a compassionate and non-judgemental approach, and the ability to work confidently across orga
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