The Scottish Community Link Worker Network is a new national network for primary care community link working in Scotland.
The aim of the network is to create a space for community link workers in primary care settings in Scotland to come together to share learning and to develop, network and support each other in order to improve outcomes for their patients and communities.
The network has a number of key objectives:
- Provide a forum to enable peer-to-peer support for primary care community link working across Scotland
- Raise awareness of the community link worker role in tackling health inequalities
- Strengthen the contribution of community link workers to primary care teams and enable greater understanding of community link working within primary care settings
- Identify and maximise training, learning and development opportunities to professionalise the community link worker role
- Provide a collective voice to influence policy regarding community link working
The direction and work of the network is currently supported by a working group of community link workers as well as an advisory group of community link worker programme leads.
If you are interested in joining the Scottish Community Link Worker Network or want to find out more about it and future events, then please contact Roisin Hurst, Network Development Coordinator.
Scottish Community Link Worker Network: Demonstrating impact on health inequalities
30/03/2022
On 29 March the Scottish Community Link Worker Network and Evaluation Support Scotland ran a short follow up session for those who had attended the training in December 2021 Demonstrating impact on health inequalities. The training was based on the res …
Inquiry into Alternative Pathways to Primary Care spotlights link working
28/03/2022
Alison Leitch, Community Link Worker Network Area Lead for North Edinburgh, was recently part of a panel presenting evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Health, Social Care and Sport Committee’s Inquiry into Alternative Pathways to Primary Care. The …
A Chance to Change Primary Care and Tackle Health Inequalities
25/03/2022
Published on 14th March 2022, a new Scottish Government report sets out 23 recommendations for actions to be taken to help primary care play a stronger role in reducing health inequalities in Scotland: Report of the Primary Care Health Inequalities Sho …
Jim’s Blog – Smoking and Mental Health: A Forgotten Epidemic
14/03/2022
Jim O’Rorke, Development Officer with ASH (Scotland) talks about their IMPACT project and the resources and advice it can provide about smoking and mental health.
Scottish Community Link Worker Network is now on Twitter!
28/02/2022
The Scottish Community Link Worker Network has now got its own Twitter account! You can find us and follow us @ScotCLWnetwork We hope that this will be another useful way to share information, news, resources and ideas with the Network’s Community Lin …
