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Havering Health Ltd Social Prescriber- Havering Health

The closing date is 02 October 2026

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Job summary

We do not facilitate Visa sponsorship

The post office will support older people living with frailty to live longer, healthier lives. They will work closely with Havering Health PCNs GP practices, the wider PCN team, the local authority, including social care and housing, and Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise organisation to ensure individuals receive appropriate, coordinated support.

The Social Prescriber will assist patients whose care is coordinated by the PCN GP practices serves as a single point of contact for individuals and carers, coordinating the provision of comprehensive, integrated care in collaboration with other services and professionals, such as specialist community teams, social prescribers, voluntary sector organisation, and primary care. The responsibility of the Social Prescriber is to develop an understanding of services that can support patients and carers from a holistic perspective.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support older people living with frailty to live longer, healthier lives. They will work closely with PCNs GP practices, the wider PCN team, the local authority, including social care and housing, and Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise organisations to ensure individuals receive appropriate, coordinated support.

The Social Prescriber will assist patients whose care is coordinated by the GP Practice in PCN. Serves as a single point of contact for individuals and carers, coordinating the provision of comprehensive, integrated care in collaboration with other services and professionals, such as specialist community teams, social prescribers, voluntary sector organisations, and primary care.

The post holder will work with individuals from various cultural and social backgrounds. The ability to perform effectively in a diverse and occasionally demanding environment is required.

About us

Havering PCN is a collaboration of GP practices working together to provide integrated, high-quality healthcare to our local population. Established in 2019 as part of the NHS Long Term Plan, we aim to bridge the gap between traditional GP services and community-based care, ensuring our patients have access to the right support at the right time.

By sharing resources and expertise, our member practices are able to offer a wider range of specialist services and personalised care that wouldn't be possible for a single surgery to provide alone.

Our Mission & Values

Our vision is a community where every resident enjoys optimal health and wellbeing, empowered by inclusive and personalised care.

• Compassion: Approaching every patient with empathy and understanding.

• Collaboration: Working as a cohesive team to offer comprehensive solutions.

• Excellence: Committing to the highest quality of healthcare through continuous improvement.

• Inclusion: Ensuring our services are accessible and welcoming to all.

Details

Date posted

16 September 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£32,000 to £38,000 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

B0167-26-0035

Job locations

Havering Health Federation Limited

Romford

Essex

RM1 4HL

United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

We do not provide visa sponsorship

JOB SUMMARY

The post holder will support older people living with frailty to live longer, healthier lives. They will work closely with Havering PCNs GP practices, the wider PCN team, the local authority, including social care and housing, and Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise organisations to ensure individuals receive appropriate, coordinated support.

Social Prescriber will assist patients whose care is coordinated by the PCN Aligned Community Team. Serves as a single point of contact for individuals and carers, coordinating the provision of comprehensive, integrated care in collaboration with other services and professionals, such as specialist community teams, social prescribers, voluntary sector organisations, and primary care.

The post holder will work with individuals from various cultural and social backgrounds. The ability to perform effectively in a diverse and occasionally demanding environment is required.

Training and support

The successful candidate will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong organisational abilities, patience and empathy. They should have substantial experience as a social prescriber, having worked in health, social care, or the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, with at least two years of direct engagement with individuals, families, or carers.

The post holder will be supported in their training and professional development by peers, line manager and clinical supervisor. The post holder will be encouraged to attend any training courses that are relevant to the role.

Key Responsibilities

Service Delivery

Build a robust knowledge of health, social and third sector provision available within Havering and surrounding areas.

Promote social prescribing, its role in self-management, and the wider determinants of health.

Build relationships with key staff in GP practices within havering PCN. Attend relevant meetings and integrate as part of the wider network team, providing information and feedback on social prescribing matters.

Work proactively to develop strong links with all local agencies to encourage referrals, to recognise services requirements and enable confident approach to making referrals.

Work in partnership with all local agencies to raise awareness of social prescribing and demonstrate how partnership working can reduce pressure on statutory services, improve health outcomes and enable a holistic approach to care.

Provide referring agencies with regular updates relating to social prescribing and include training for their staff to promote effective access to information and encourage appropriate referrals.

Work proactively in encouraging self-referrals and connecting with all local communities, particularly those communities that statutory agencies may find hard to reach.

Personalised Care and Support

Build relationships with patients, their families and carers. Meet people on a one-to-one basis, undertaking home visits where appropriate within organisations policies and procedures or consulting via the telephone giving people time to tell their stories and focus on what matters to me?

Build trust with the person, providing non-judgmental support, respecting diversity and lifestyle choices.

Anticipate barriers to communication.

Be a friendly source of information about wellbeing and prevention approaches.

Help people identify the wider issues that impact on their health and wellbeing, such as debt, poor housing, being unemployed, loneliness and caring.

Communicate effectively with patients, families and carers recognising the need for alternative communication methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.

Help people maintain or regain independence through living skills, adaptations, enablement approaches and simple safeguards.

Work with individuals to co-produce a simple personalised support plan; based on the persons priorities, interests, values and motivations, including what they can expect from the groups, activities and services they are being connected to and what the person can do for themselves to improve their health and wellbeing.

Where appropriate, physically introduce people to community groups, activities and statutory services, ensuring they are comfortable. Provide follow-up to ensure that they are happy, engaged, included and receiving good support.

Where required and as appropriate, refer patients back to other health professionals within the PCN.

General Tasks

Produce accurate records of patient contact, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.

Work closely with GP practices within the PCN to ensure that social prescribing referral codes are input into the clinical system and that the persons use of the NHS can be tracked, adhering to data protection legislation and data sharing agreements.

Understand and apply legal issues that support the identification of vulnerable and abused children and adults and be aware of statutory child/vulnerable patients health procedures and local guidance.

Work as part of the team to seek feedback, continually improve the service and contribute to business planning.

Undertake any tasks consistent with the level of the post and the scope of the role, ensuring that work is delivered in a timely and effective manner.

Duties may vary from time to time, without changing the general character of the post or the level of responsibility.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Collaborative working relationships

Works within the primary care team, contributing to leadership of service evaluation and research to promote quality improvement activity.

Collaborates with multi-disciplinary PCN team

Use healthcare technologies to optimise service delivery, patients access, and continuity of care

Management

Demonstrates understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service.

Uses resources effectively to manage patient treatment in line with local guidance and makes recommendations for changes where improvements can be made.

Follows professional and organisational policies

Education, learning and development

It is the responsibility of the employee to comply with all organisational and statutory requirements (eg. health and safety, infection control, equality and diversity, confidentiality, safeguarding adults and children, information governance).

Engages in annual appraisal, developing objectives to inform a Personal Development Plan, which may include 360-degree appraisal and use of patient feedback.

Participate in teaching and training of medical, nursing, and all other practice staff.

Supports the practice staff and responds to requests for advice and assistance.

Complete all mandatory and statutory training required by the role.

Take responsibility for personal development, learning and performance and maintain education through attendance on any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements are met.

Undertaking additional training where necessary to provide enhanced services and participate in training programmes implemented by the PCN/practices as part of this employment.

Understands and demonstrates the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service.

Demonstrates an understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keeps up to date with relevant clinical practice.

Quality

Under supervision and support of GPs in the practice, the post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practices, and will:

Participating in clinical governance activity and contribute to the improvement in quality of health outcomes through audit, risk management and Quality Improvement

Alerts other team members to concerns about risk, quality, and safety

Participates in investigation of incidents and events as required

Identifies, applies, and disseminates research findings relating to own practice

Collects data for audit purposes and uses clinical audit to monitor quality in the service

Contributes to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance

Works effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs

Effectively manages own time, workload, and resources

Meets timescales/deadlines for audits and written returns to ensure that the Practice meets quality standards and receives the designated funding.

Job description

Job responsibilities

We do not provide visa sponsorship

JOB SUMMARY

The post holder will support older people living with frailty to live longer, healthier lives. They will work closely with Havering PCNs GP practices, the wider PCN team, the local authority, including social care and housing, and Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise organisations to ensure individuals receive appropriate, coordinated support.

Social Prescriber will assist patients whose care is coordinated by the PCN Aligned Community Team. Serves as a single point of contact for individuals and carers, coordinating the provision of comprehensive, integrated care in collaboration with other services and professionals, such as specialist community teams, social prescribers, voluntary sector organisations, and primary care.

The post holder will work with individuals from various cultural and social backgrounds. The ability to perform effectively in a diverse and occasionally demanding environment is required.

Training and support

The successful candidate will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong organisational abilities, patience and empathy. They should have substantial experience as a social prescriber, having worked in health, social care, or the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, with at least two years of direct engagement with individuals, families, or carers.

The post holder will be supported in their training and professional development by peers, line manager and clinical supervisor. The post holder will be encouraged to attend any training courses that are relevant to the role.

Key Responsibilities

Service Delivery

Build a robust knowledge of health, social and third sector provision available within Havering and surrounding areas.

Promote social prescribing, its role in self-management, and the wider determinants of health.

Build relationships with key staff in GP practices within havering PCN. Attend relevant meetings and integrate as part of the wider network team, providing information and feedback on social prescribing matters.

Work proactively to develop strong links with all local agencies to encourage referrals, to recognise services requirements and enable confident approach to making referrals.

Work in partnership with all local agencies to raise awareness of social prescribing and demonstrate how partnership working can reduce pressure on statutory services, improve health outcomes and enable a holistic approach to care.

Provide referring agencies with regular updates relating to social prescribing and include training for their staff to promote effective access to information and encourage appropriate referrals.

Work proactively in encouraging self-referrals and connecting with all local communities, particularly those communities that statutory agencies may find hard to reach.

Personalised Care and Support

Build relationships with patients, their families and carers. Meet people on a one-to-one basis, undertaking home visits where appropriate within organisations policies and procedures or consulting via the telephone giving people time to tell their stories and focus on what matters to me?

Build trust with the person, providing non-judgmental support, respecting diversity and lifestyle choices.

Anticipate barriers to communication.

Be a friendly source of information about wellbeing and prevention approaches.

Help people identify the wider issues that impact on their health and wellbeing, such as debt, poor housing, being unemployed, loneliness and caring.

Communicate effectively with patients, families and carers recognising the need for alternative communication methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.

Help people maintain or regain independence through living skills, adaptations, enablement approaches and simple safeguards.

Work with individuals to co-produce a simple personalised support plan; based on the persons priorities, interests, values and motivations, including what they can expect from the groups, activities and services they are being connected to and what the person can do for themselves to improve their health and wellbeing.

Where appropriate, physically introduce people to community groups, activities and statutory services, ensuring they are comfortable. Provide follow-up to ensure that they are happy, engaged, included and receiving good support.

Where required and as appropriate, refer patients back to other health professionals within the PCN.

General Tasks

Produce accurate records of patient contact, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.

Work closely with GP practices within the PCN to ensure that social prescribing referral codes are input into the clinical system and that the persons use of the NHS can be tracked, adhering to data protection legislation and data sharing agreements.

Understand and apply legal issues that support the identification of vulnerable and abused children and adults and be aware of statutory child/vulnerable patients health procedures and local guidance.

Work as part of the team to seek feedback, continually improve the service and contribute to business planning.

Undertake any tasks consistent with the level of the post and the scope of the role, ensuring that work is delivered in a timely and effective manner.

Duties may vary from time to time, without changing the general character of the post or the level of responsibility.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Collaborative working relationships

Works within the primary care team, contributing to leadership of service evaluation and research to promote quality improvement activity.

Collaborates with multi-disciplinary PCN team

Use healthcare technologies to optimise service delivery, patients access, and continuity of care

Management

Demonstrates understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service.

Uses resources effectively to manage patient treatment in line with local guidance and makes recommendations for changes where improvements can be made.

Follows professional and organisational policies

Education, learning and development

It is the responsibility of the employee to comply with all organisational and statutory requirements (eg. health and safety, infection control, equality and diversity, confidentiality, safeguarding adults and children, information governance).

Engages in annual appraisal, developing objectives to inform a Personal Development Plan, which may include 360-degree appraisal and use of patient feedback.

Participate in teaching and training of medical, nursing, and all other practice staff.

Supports the practice staff and responds to requests for advice and assistance.

Complete all mandatory and statutory training required by the role.

Take responsibility for personal development, learning and performance and maintain education through attendance on any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements are met.

Undertaking additional training where necessary to provide enhanced services and participate in training programmes implemented by the PCN/practices as part of this employment.

Understands and demonstrates the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service.

Demonstrates an understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keeps up to date with relevant clinical practice.

Quality

Under supervision and support of GPs in the practice, the post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practices, and will:

Participating in clinical governance activity and contribute to the improvement in quality of health outcomes through audit, risk management and Quality Improvement

Alerts other team members to concerns about risk, quality, and safety

Participates in investigation of incidents and events as required

Identifies, applies, and disseminates research findings relating to own practice

Collects data for audit purposes and uses clinical audit to monitor quality in the service

Contributes to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance

Works effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs

Effectively manages own time, workload, and resources

Meets timescales/deadlines for audits and written returns to ensure that the Practice meets quality standards and receives the designated funding.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Skill

Essential

• NHS Priorities and Issues
• Good working knowledge of Outlook, Word, Excel, Power point, Access
• Update and maintain efficient administration systems
• Maintain confidentiality/data protection
• Able to analyse systems to improve services
• Establish and maintain good working relationships
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Team Player
• Clear communication skills including excellent writing, data entry and presentation skills
• Able to construct and deliver clear information/instructions to others
• Able to multi-task
• Able to work without supervision and use own initiative
• Organise and prioritise own workload
• English language competency sufficient to communicate effectively with all staff and clients
• Demonstrates attention to detail, accuracy and numeracy skills

Desirable

• Advanced level IT skills

Experience

Essential

• Working in the role of a social prescriber for a minimum of 2 years
• Working in a multi-professional team environment.
• Significant administrative experience
• Handling sensitive and confidential information

Desirable

• Working in an NHS environment
• Experience of using EMIS

Other

Essential

• Able to travel efficiently throughout the area of Havering Liberty PCN
• Commitment to continuing professional development

Desirable

• Standard driving skills and access to own vehicle for work purposes

Qualifications

Essential

• NVQ level 2 or Grade A-C equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy

Demonstration of PCN Values

Essential

• Patient centred care and health equity
• Sustainability and efficiency
• Collaboration and team working
• Quality and excellence
• Inclusivity and respect
• Accountability and integrity

Person Specification

Knowledge and Skill

Essential

• NHS Priorities and Issues
• Good working knowledge of Outlook, Word, Excel, Power point, Access
• Update and maintain efficient administration systems
• Maintain confidentiality/data protection
• Able to analyse systems to improve services
• Establish and maintain good working relationships
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Team Player
• Clear communication skills including excellent writing, data entry and presentation skills
• Able to construct and deliver clear information/instructions to others
• Able to multi-task
• Able to work without supervision and use own initiative
• Organise and prioritise own workload
• English language competency sufficient to communicate effectively with all staff and clients
• Demonstrates attention to detail, accuracy and numeracy skills

Desirable

• Advanced level IT skills

Experience

Essential

• Working in the role of a social prescriber for a minimum of 2 years
• Working in a multi-professional team environment.
• Significant administrative experience
• Handling sensitive and confidential information

Desirable

• Working in an NHS environment
• Experience of using EMIS

Other

Essential

• Able to travel efficiently throughout the area of Havering Liberty PCN
• Commitment to continuing professional development

Desirable

• Standard driving skills and access to own vehicle for work purposes

Qualifications

Essential

• NVQ level 2 or Grade A-C equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy

Demonstration of PCN Values

Essential

• Patient centred care and health equity
• Sustainability and efficiency
• Collaboration and team working
• Quality and excellence
• Inclusivity and respect
• Accountability and integrity

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Havering Health Ltd

Address

Havering Health Federation Limited

Romford

Essex

RM1 4HL

United Kingdom

Employer's website

http://haveringhealth.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Havering Health Ltd

Address

Havering Health Federation Limited

Romford

Essex

RM1 4HL

United Kingdom

Employer's website

http://haveringhealth.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Simran Simran

[email protected]

Details

Date posted

16 September 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£32,000 to £38,000 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

B0167-26-0035

Job locations

Havering Health Federation Limited

Romford

Essex

RM1 4HL

United Kingdom

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