Vacancy: Living Well Coordinator (Social Prescriber)

Job Title: Living Well Coordinator (Social Prescriber)

Responsible to: Adapt (NE) and West Northumberland Primary Care Network

Hours: 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday 9.00am-5.00pm (open to job share)

Salary: £27,595.92 per annum

Benefits: 25 days annual leave per year, plus statutory holidays (pro rata)

Location: The Living Well Coordination Service covers the ten GP practices in the West Northumberland Primary Care Network (PCN), two additional GP practices and will also work from Adapt (NE).

• Do you have excellent listening and communication skills?
• Are you organised with good administrative and IT skills?
• Do you enjoy working as part of a team?
• Do you want to help support West Northumberland residents to improve their health and wellbeing?

If you have answered ‘yes’ to the above questions, then the Living Well Coordination Service would love to hear from you.

We are recruiting one full-time Living Well Coordinator. This is an opportunity to be involved in delivering and supporting solutions for primary care patients across the West Northumberland Primary Care Network (PCN).

The Living Well Coordinator will be the named worker for one to three GP practices and will split their working time across these practices, as well as working from Adapt’s office in Hexham. You will also be required to work in other places throughout the North East, as identified in your individual work programme.

The West Northumberland PCN practices are: Bellingham Practice, Branch End Surgery (Stocksfield), Burn Brae Medical Group (Hexham), Corbridge Medical Group, Haltwhistle Medical Group, Humshaugh and Wark Medical Group, Prudhoe Medical Group, Scots Gap Medical Group (Morpeth), Sele Medical Practice (Hexham) and White Medical Group (Ponteland). Adderlane Surgery (Prudhoe) and Riversdale Surgery (Prudhoe) are also supported by the service.

Clients may live rurally beyond these areas.

Please find below the Job Description/Person Specification and application form. Please tell us how you meet the person specification within the application form and return it along with the GDPR consent form.

Completed applications to be returned by email by 5.00pm on Wednesday 1 May 2024.

Interviews will be held Wednesday 8 May 2024.

If you require any further information, please contact Emma Aljoe by email at emma.aljoe@nhs.net or call 01434 600599 (option 4).

Living Well Coordinator job description and person specification

Living Well Coordinator application form

Adapt (NE) GDPR consent form