Annexe Communities is a community-led organisation based at our Healthy Living Centre in Partick, Glasgow. We have been working with local people for over 30 years to facilitate community development opportunities, improve health and wellbeing and reduce inequality - operating as the local community anchor organisation.

We are seeking a Social Prescribing Development Worker to join our team and support people who have been referred by local health professionals to access wellbeing initiatives.

Primary Function: To provide the operational development of the Social Prescribing Project, and the day-to-day liaison of related Annexe wellbeing services. Forge working links with external partners such as GPs, and health professionals to create a pathway for patients to access activities and services provided by Annexe Communities and other local community and voluntary organisations.

Condition: The post holder is required to be PVG registered and authorised to undertake regulated work with vulnerable adults.

We are a community-led health and wellbeing organisation and local community anchor organisation. We operate from our Healthy Living Centre base in Partick, Glasgow and have over 30 years’ experience working with the local community to develop and deliver community development initiatives and wellbeing activities.

We work with local people, community groups, housing associations, businesses and other voluntary and community organisations. We are governed by a volunteer board of directors, elected by our members. We have 12 employees and 30 volunteers working to achieve our mission and engage with around 1000 residents each year.

Purpose of the job

To engage residents and community groups in rolling out Partick and Thornwood Ideas Fund, supporting local involvement in generating ideas, organising voting events to enable residents to select their best community ideas for the £20k funding pot and deciding what matters in their community.

To find out more about the role, please download the Application Pack below.