This week’s episode of our additional roles focused series of podcasts features Alliance for Better Care’s multi-talented Chantelle Martin, an Occupational Therapist by background, who made the jump into social prescribing – and back again! Chantelle’s talks to Ben about her experiences of both worlds, her personal journey within general practice, and why she is now a passionate advocate and supporter of a hybrid approach to embedding the additional roles. So much so, that she has is pioneering and leading a joint social prescribing and occupational therapy service in her local area to enhance and complement what is already on offer to practices and patients.

Introduction (46 secs)

All about Chantelle (59 secs)

Jumping from occupational therapy into social prescribing (1 min 47 secs)

Haywards Heath PCN (2 mins 55 secs)

Starting out as the PCN’s first social prescribing link worker (3 mins 31 secs)

Network versus practice (4 mins 11 secs)

The social prescribing role (4 mins 29 secs)

Referral criteria and pathways (5 mins 45 secs)

Moving back to occupational therapy and the birth of a joint service (6 mins 25 secs)

How can social prescribing link workers and OTs work in partnership? (7 mins 36 secs)

Support, supervision, and caseload management (9 mins 4 secs)

A sense of belonging and influence (10 mins 10 secs)

Chantelle’s support network (12 mins 25 secs)

The occupational therapy service (13 mins 8 secs)

Expanding the social prescribing team (14 mins 21 secs)

Are the additional roles attractive enough for potential applicants? (15 mins 15 secs)

Meeting social prescribing referral targets (16 mins 13 secs)

Lessons learned (17 mins 46 secs)

Working as holistic teams, rather than as separate services (19 mins 12 secs)

Recommended resources (20 mins 17 secs)

 

There are still a couple of places up for grabs on each of the courses Ben is jointly running in September:

For clinical directors looking for some ongoing, structured support, the PCN Clinical Director Mastermind Programme is still open for applications. Click here if you’d like to find out more.

Information about the New to General Practice Partnership Training Programme, for those new to partnership or considering going into partnership, can be found here.

If you’d like to discuss any aspect of the courses which are currently on offer further, please contact Ben at [email protected]