Job Vacancy: Social Prescribing Link Worker
Help on Your Doorstep
Social Prescribing Link Worker (Part time)
Hours: 3 days a week (one day to be worked on a Friday)
Salary: 17,908 (pro rata)
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About Help on Your Doorstep
Help on Your Doorstep, is a pioneering charity working in the London Borough of Islington to improve the health and wellbeing of people and the communities that they live in. Through our Social Prescribing Service, ‘Connect’ outreach and referral service and Good Neighbour Schemes, we support people to thrive in healthier, happier and more connected communities.
At the heart of everything we do is a commitment to build trusted, relationship-based support with individuals and communities. We work closely with partners who share our vision of tackling the social and health inequalities that affect people across Islington.
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About the role
Our Social Prescribing service supports patients referred by GP practices across Central Islington. Working within a fast, paced, person-centred environment, Social Prescribing Link Workers support individuals to identify what matters most to them and connects with community services, activities and support that improves their well-being and addresses the wider determinants of health.
The service benefits from close collaboration with our Connect service and access to over 120 referral partners, offering a diverse range of opportunities to support residents’ health, wellbeing and independence.
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What You’ll Be Doing
As part of a dedicated team of four Social Prescribing Link Workers, seven Connect service colleagues and external partners working in primary care teams, you will:
- Work with patients referred by GP practices to provide personalised, strengths based support
- Build trusted relationships and support individuals to overcome, social, practical and emotional barriers
- Support people to access community-based services, activities and networks
- Manage a varied caseload, maintaining accurate and timely records
- Work collaboratively with GP practices, primary care teams, colleagues and external partners
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About You
- Passionate about creating a fairer society and reducing health inequalities
- Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Have experience of providing person-centred or personalised support (paid or unpaid)
- Can work at pace and work across different data-systems and maintain accurate records
- Can manage a caseload in an organised and methodical way
- Are comfortable balancing face to face work with administrative responsibilities
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Full job description, person specification
Apply with your CV and cover letter and any queries please contact Click to show email
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Our Team
You will be part of a supportive and collaborative team of 4 Social Prescribing Link Workers and 7 Connect Service colleagues, GP practices and external partners across Islington. We value teamwork, reflective practice, and learning from one another to continually improve outcomes for residents.
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The deadline for completed applications is 9.00am on February 23rd 2026. In person interviews will be held on March 5th 2026.
