Job summary
Community Care Navigator, Band 7 6 Month Fixed Term Contract, 37.5 hours per week
We are looking for a motivated, enthusiastic and confident individual to join our team to work as a Community Care Navigator, providing additional capacity over the winter period.
The role is based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital focussing on the home first approach, working closely with the MDT in identifying clients requiring support in the Community and facilitating earlier discharge.
Main duties of the job
- The Community Care Navigator will work as a part of a multi-disciplinary team, including health and social care colleagues to meet the needs of clients referred for assessment ensuring the highest possible standards of practice.
- The role of the Community Care Navigator is to bring together different professionals to implement a timely and person-centred assessment to determine appropriate care pathways for patients to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions/expedite discharges. This involves partnership working across agencies at the interfaces of primary and secondary health and social care.
- To act as a source of specialist and expert nursing knowledge and provide support and advice in the assessment of patients requiring community support, intermediate care services, or crisis intervention in the community.
- To ensure the outcome of the nursing element of the assessment is multi-disciplinary in approach and to arrange and coordinate community services and Intermediate Care Services, in liaison with social care re care packages as required.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To support the home first approach, including virtual wards and other community physical health services
- To work with the wards to identify patients who can be discharged earlier as their needs could be met in the community setting.
- To work with Discharge and Patient Flow Manager in Bexley and Greenwich to identify those suitable for a home first pathway, including intermediate care (at home or bedded pathway)
- To work in line with the Trust objectives for community practice.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To support the home first approach, including virtual wards and other community physical health services
- To work with the wards to identify patients who can be discharged earlier as their needs could be met in the community setting.
- To work with Discharge and Patient Flow Manager in Bexley and Greenwich to identify those suitable for a home first pathway, including intermediate care (at home or bedded pathway)
- To work in line with the Trust objectives for community practice.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant Qualifications
- Has nursing qualifications
- Is NMC registered
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Has the relevant experience
- Minimum of 4 years post registration experience
- 2 years experience at Band 6
- Experience of working in an MDT
Desirable
- Has the relevant experience
Relevant Skills
Essential
- Relevant Skills
- Experience of working in the community setting as an autonomous practitioner
- Clinical reasoning, risk assessment and management skills
- Ability to work autonomously, set own priorities and manage time effectively.
Desirable
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Relevant Qualifications
- Has nursing qualifications
- Is NMC registered
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Has the relevant experience
- Minimum of 4 years post registration experience
- 2 years experience at Band 6
- Experience of working in an MDT
Desirable
- Has the relevant experience
Relevant Skills
Essential
- Relevant Skills
- Experience of working in the community setting as an autonomous practitioner
- Clinical reasoning, risk assessment and management skills
- Ability to work autonomously, set own priorities and manage time effectively.
Desirable
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
