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Welcome to your monthly Social Prescribing Link Worker e-bulletin. In this email you will find practical information and resources from across the region and nationally.
For more general news, please subscribe to the monthly 'People and Communities' newsletter. If you'd like to sign up please email gmhscp.pcca@nhs.net and we will add you to our mailing list.
This week sees the annual celebration of local community groups and activities that keep us happy and healthy, and the teams connecting people into them.
#SocialPrescribingDay is on 10 March and the Social Prescribing Network has produced a suite of resources to help promote the day.
Greater Manchester is celebrating the week at the International Social Prescribing Conference where the team will give presentations on Nature for Health, our green programme, and our children and young people's work. We will be sharing a blog from GM's first youth Link Worker and announcing funding for a schools social prescribing pilot. Both stories will be available to read via our Twitter @GMPandC. Please do tag us in anything you are doing and we will share your great work.
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The Personalised Care team at NHSE filmed people involved in social prescribing in Salford, Stockport and Rochdale for #SocialPrescribingWeek
Salford representatives talked about how social prescribing supports people locally and personally, in a way they want and need to achieve life goals. Connecting into 800 VCSE organisations across the city highlights how partnership working with the voluntary sector is crucial.
Stockport spoke about GP practices as community anchors, and with most determinants of health nothing to do with medicine, the vital role of Link Workers in keeping people happy and healthy.
Rochdale's filming highlighted Lock50, with the Canal and River Trust, which offers something different to patients, using green and blue space to improve mental health, seeing a huge difference in people's lives and transforming the canal into a safer, nicer place to be.
You can watch the film here.
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"Medication can only do so much when you're stuck in four walls."
A great example of #Nature for Health with Bolton GP Federation and the Woodland Trust tranquility walks, using woodland and water as a space to help with anxiety, featured in the Guardian Society, read here.
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TfGM has been awarded funding for a feasibility study into a pilot for active travel social prescribing. We're looking forward to exploring how we can work with local communities to support more people to incorporate walking and cycling into healthy happy lives. Read more on BBC Online here.
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The government has published its latest annual report on progress to deliver the government's 2018 loneliness strategy, including the role of social prescribing.
In addition, the NHS has introduced a new campaign, ‘Lift Someone Out Of Loneliness’, encouraging people to take on a small act of kindness to help others feel less lonely. You can access campaign materials for promotion in your workplace or service here.
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Please share details of this free 'Introduction to Social Prescribing' webinar with colleagues and contacts:
Do you know anyone who would like to find out more about social prescribing?
Free for anyone in the health, care and VCSE sectors, this Personalised Care Institute webinar on 24 March, deivered by colleagues from Greater Manchester, will explain what social prescribing is and how it applies to different roles. People can sign up here.
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NHSE is offering temporary access to small group peer supervision sessions for Social Prescribing Link Workers and Care Coordinators. These sessions will support SPLWs and CCs to review and discuss their caseload, to manage patient risk factors and to manage the emotional impact of their work. There are limited places available for short-term supervision support during March. The sessions are free and open to SPLWs and CCs who do not currently have access to supervision in their role.
You can book a place if you: Do not currently have access to supervision, Are in a role funded through the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) in primary care, Will commit to attending supervisions sessions (a minimum of two) during March 2022, Will complete an evaluation of the sessions you attend.
Please book a place directly with one of the three Personalised Care Institute (PCI) accredited providers; Undivided Training, Health Coaching Academy, TPC Health
If you have any queries, please email england.supportedselfmanagement@nhs.net.
You are also invited to a new session series from the Greater Manchester Link Worker Network: Action Learning Sets.
This is a new series of sessions to support you, to share issues, challenges and concerns, as well as ideas, resources and solutions. Sessions will be based around sharing initial challenges or problems, and lead towards peer-to-peer support and problem-solving. These sessions are open to all Link Workers in Greater Manchester – irrespective of where and how you are employed. They will run alongside existing sessions run as part of the Greater Manchester Link Worker Network.
Action Learning Set sessions will run once a month in an initial trial phase. Our first session is 17 March, 11.00 – 12.30. Please sign up if this is of interest, and we look forward to seeing you there! Sign up here
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‘New’ HEE Supervision and Support elearning module for Social Prescribing Link Workers (SPLWs):
Is now live on the HEE elfh Hub. The new session can be accessed at: e-lfh.org.uk
All NHSE/I SPLW elearning modules are hosted on the HEE elfh platform.
1. Introduction to the social prescribing link worker role
2. Developing personalised care and support plans with people
3. Developing partnerships
4. Introducing people to community groups and VCSE organisations
5. Safeguarding vulnerable people
6. Keeping records and measuring impact
7. Supporting people with their mental health through social prescribing
8. Social welfare, legal support and money guidance
9. Supervision
10. Supporting children and young people through social prescribing
11. Social prescribing and the Armed Forces Community
12. Culturally Competent Practice (in development)
Introduction to the Armed Forces Community - Videos
University of Chester have also produced a series of videos to provide healthcare staff and practitioners with an insight into the Armed Forces community and to support staff to deliver optimum care to military veterans and their families. The videos consist of 6 chapters and covers areas including the common physical and mental health issues impacting veterans and their families, and highlighting the help available.
Gardening on Prescription in Manchester, Spring 2022 Sessions
Sow the City CIC is now taking referrals for its new Green Social Prescribing service for the Manchester area, for people to attend sessions this spring.
The ‘Nature for Health’ service is aimed at adults experiencing mental ill health and other related conditions. All participants will get support from a Link Worker and attend 6 x free weekly 2 hour gardening for wellbeing sessions at one of 7 fabulous community gardens across the City of Manchester. With sessions planned to start from early March at partner gardens, you can refer people onto the service using this referral form (word version available on request). They accept self-referrals too.
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GreaterSport, supporting GM Moving, would like to hear from link workers across Greater Manchester. To find out how teams can improve your experiences of connecting your clients with physical activity. Your feedback will help them provide the correct support or training to both yourselves and providers. This survey should take around 15 minutes to complete. The deadline is 11 March. Thank you in advance for taking part: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/North_West_Active_Partnership_Link_Worker_Survey/
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Social Prescribing Link Worker Survey - Results
The summary results of the 2021 NHSE/I link worker survey have been published on The Platform, including agreed actions from NHSE/I to address ongoing challenges for social prescribing and SPLWs in the NHS.
Children and Young People (CYP) Collaboration Platform Space
A CYP space has been created on The Platform, for anyone involved with, interested in, or working to develop social prescribing for CYP. The space is dedicated to sharing ideas and resources, and to support social prescribing colleagues working with CYP.
The Social Prescribing team are currently seeking content for the space, including tools and resources, case studies, job descriptions and induction and training information. To share any relevant resources, please email england.socialprescribing@nhs.net.
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