About the role

ID: 1814 Youth Social Prescribing Link Worker
Community Health and Wellbeing – Social Prescribing

Salary: £32,750 - £35,564 FTE per annum – (Pro-rata for part-time hours: £26,111 - £28,355)

Location: Bromley by Bow Centre

We typically work 3 days a week in the office but offer the flexibility to work remotely. Our office space is accessible by wheelchairs.

Hours: 29.5 hours across 4 days – (Part-time)

We offer flexible working arrangements - please see below for more details.

Contract: Temporary

Family Action & the Role’s Impact:
At Family Action we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities.

We see first-hand the power of family to shape lives, for better or worse, so we speak up for the importance of family in national and local policymaking, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.

The Bromley by Bow Centre (BBBC) delivers a social prescribing service for young people in Tower Hamlets. Following a successful first year, the service has secured funding to further expand its capacity and reach. This is a specialist Link Worker role using a youth work approach to build and develop the service offering tailored support to young people.
Key to the role is one-to-one person-centred support and building trusted relationships. The role acts as a bridge between health services, schools and community organisation, to support and empower young people to access opportunities and take positive steps to improve health and wellbeing outcomes.

Main Responsibilities:

Referrals
• Act as a main point of contact for referrals into BBBC’s youth social prescribing service.
• Work closely with BBBC’s and the borough wide social prescribing team to generate referrals.
• Build on existing referral pathways and proactively develop new relationships with youth services, schools, healthcare providers and

Personalised Support
• Provide tailored non – judgmental and inclusive one-to-one support to young people, focusing on their individual needs, motivations and aspirations focusing on ‘what matters to them’.
• Work collaboratively with young people to co-develop tailored actions plans to identify and take steps towards achieving their goals.
• Take a holistic, youth-centred approach, addressing the social determinants of health that impact young people’s wellbeing, such as mental health, education, employability and social welfare advice.
• Refer and signpost young people to appropriate support services according to their needs.
• Develop, manage and deliver innovative approaches to supporting young people, building on existing service delivery.
• Manage and prioritise a caseload, in accordance with the needs, priorities and any urgent support required.

Group Support
• Co-design and co-deliver workshops and group activities that address key challenges identified by young people such as managing mental health, building self-esteem, employability and social welfare

Advocacy
• Advocate on behalf of young people e.g. liaising with schools, families, or service providers to address barriers and ensure access and engagement to opportunities.
• Encourage young people to become active participants in their communities, fostering a sense of belonging and purpose.

Monitoring and Reporting
• Ensure accurate data entry across internal and external systems where appropriate.
• Ensure the management and collation of data for reporting purposes.
• Utilise data to identify and track unmet needs among young people, using insights to inform and shape the design and delivery of services.
• Support in evaluating the impact of the service.

Main Requirements (for details check the job description and person specification):
• A recognised professional qualification in youth work or extensive experience working with young people.
• Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service – Enhanced DBS

Benefits:
- an annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days, and after a full year of service, rising each April by one day, subject to a maximum of 30 working days plus bank holidays
- up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
- eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- cycle to work scheme
- investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities

We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.

To Apply:
• Click the ‘Apply’ link below and fill out our digital application form
• Closing Date: Friday 26th June 2026 at 23:59

Interviews are scheduled to take place the week commencing the 29TH June virtually, with slots throughout the working day.
For any queries, or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or the potential for flexible working, please email: layla.shirreh@bbbc.org.uk

All appointments with Family Action are subject to satisfactory Safer Recruitment checks.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:

We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates. We are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action because we know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and we strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support.

All candidates with a disability are welcome to apply under the Disability Confident Scheme and request priority consideration for an interview, provided they meet the essential criteria for the role.

To help remove financial barriers to working with us, we will reimburse reasonable travel costs if you are invited to attend an interview in person.

*Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reasons.