Care Navigator

Job Title: Care Navigator - 37.5 hrs per week

Trust Location: Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Would you like to be a part of a team that works well together, always there to help each other? If you answered yes, then Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust is the place for you.

About the Trust

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust provide community health, specialist mental health and learning disability services for people across the south of England.

They cover Hampshire and one community service on the Isle of Wight.

They are one of the largest providers of these types of service in the UK, employing around 8,000 staff who work from over 150 sites, including community hospitals, health centres, inpatient units, and social care services.

What you'll be responsible for:

• To support the planning, co-ordination and transfer of service users across the care pathways.
• To work in collaboration with the team to support service users as experts in
• their own care, promoting the principles of recovery, choice and personalisation, which value and empower the service user.
• To work in collaboration with other parts of the pathway (e.g. home treatment; statutory AMHP work) to deliver seamless and timely packages of care, geared to the needs of the service user.
• To develop the role of Care Navigator to embed the Care programme approach within the Mental Health Division.
• To support clinicians to identify acute care needs such as arranging hospital admission in and out of area.
• To take the lead in identifying available beds.
• To support the transfer facilitator in the management of the Bed User Group Meeting.
• To support the Transfer facilitator to bring back service users who are placed out of area.
• To work in a manner which is helpful to the service user and the referrer, based on principles of recovery, personalisation, and choice.

You'll learn the following whilst working at the trust:

• An in depth understanding of the roles and responsibilities involved in working within the NHS
• Knowledge of the systems used, to effectively complete your role to the highest standard at all times
• A sense of teamwork, gained through working alongside and supporting colleagues from all levels, within the organisation

You'll have the following skills/experience:

• System Knowledge: RIO Training & Card
• Experience in similar role
• Experience working within the NHS
• Excellent organisational skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Microsoft Office package knowledge e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel

Depending on the Trust, you may require variable additional certification and skills.

As a member of NHS Professionals, you have fantastic benefits:

• Competitive pay rates- work this week, get paid next week
• Essential support when you need it- 24/7 365 days- call us anytime
• Multi locational- work across neighbouring Trusts
• Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go- access your "My Bank" shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone
• Varied working options to suit your lifestyle- access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or longer-term placements
• Training and development opportunities- Keep up with the essentials and more
• Build holiday allowance for every shift you work- your work life balance is important to us
• Stakeholder pension scheme available- a flexible future for you and yours

Who are NHS Professionals?

We specialise in putting people in place to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated candidates and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, access to more shifts and a healthier work-life balance, giving more choice and control to our members.

As an equal opportunities' organisation, NHSP is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective Bank members and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership. We believe there is a strong case for the Equality, Diversity and inclusion agenda and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants form a range of backgrounds to apply.

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By joining us you can look forward to a choice of flexible Bank shifts across any of our client Trusts in England, as well as the ability to develop professionally and gain experience in several wards or areas.

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