Career Navigator

**Career Navigator**:
**Band 6**:
**Main area**
- Career Navigator
- **Grade**
- Band 6
- **Contract**
- Fixed term: 12 months
- **Hours**
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Flexible working and secondments considered.)
- **Job ref**
- 201-23-432**Site**
- Carew House
- **Town**
- Bodmin
- **Salary**
- £33,706 - £40,588 Per Annum / Pro Rata
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 30/03/2023 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
This one-year fixed term post is a fantastic opportunity to support nurses working in all parts of our health and care system. The role of the Career Navigator is to ensure that nurses can access quality career conversations to identify potential and raise awareness of opportunities to develop at all career stages. This will include providing individual tailored coaching and promoting clear career paths to help people understand the available routes through which they can achieve success.

To do this, you will be a registered nurse with a keen desire to support staff retention across Cornwall’s Health and Social Care sectors. Resilience and excellent interpersonal and communication skills will be needed to successfully coach individuals through career transitions and build relationships with a range of stakeholders.

A key outcome measure for this post will be the ability to retain the skills of our existing nurses and help them build satisfying and sustainable careers here in Cornwall.

Based with CFT as part of the placement expansion team, you will work in collaboration with learning and development leads, Practice Educators and our new Legacy Mentors, plus clinicians and internal and external training providers. We offer a supportive working environment and the opportunity to access training to develop your coaching and mentoring skills.

Secondments and flexible working are encouraged. Some travel will be required but you will be able to work from home when not on site.

**Main duties of the job**:
To ensure that the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly (CIoS) nursing and midwifery workforce can access quality career conversations to identify their potential.

Providing individual tailored coaching to staff to ensure they are fulfilled and in control of their careers. Individuals accessing the service may range from those who are newly entering the profession, to those seeking a change or are considering leaving.

The ability to retain the skills of our existing nursing workforce within the CIoS health & social care sectors.

Hosted by CFT but working across all parts of the health and social care system, there is a requirement to liaise with workforce leads, the placement expansion team, learning and development leads, Legacy Mentors, employers and clinicians and it will be essential to develop an