Community Care Navigator

Community Care Navigator, Band 7

6 Month Fixed Term Contract, 37.5 hours per week

***Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post***

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.

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.

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

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.