# Care Coordinator/Navigator

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Homewell Practice.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Closed
- **Employer:** Homewell Practice
- **Location:** Havant
- **Profession:** Administrative and IT
- **Salary:** £12.71

                    an hour
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part-time
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-13T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-27T07:22:43.394Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/A3447-26-0001?employerCode=A3447
- **Employer website:** https://www.homewellpractice.co.uk/

## Job Content

### Job summary

We have an opportunity to join our growing team at The Homewell Practice as a Care Coordinator-Navigator. Our practice has expanded significantly over the last four years, and with the increasing demand for GP services, we are strengthening our team to continue delivering high quality patient care.

We are looking to recruit a Care Coordinator-Navigator to work 16 hours per week, joining our supportive and friendly practice family.

You MUST be able to work from 2.30pm until 6.30pm on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

We are looking for someone who is flexible, reliable, and committed, someone who sees this as a long term career opportunity. This role suits a person who enjoys learning, thrives in a busy environment, and takes pride in helping patients access the right care at the right time.

Experience in a busy customer facing role is essential, and experience within a healthcare setting is desirable. This is a varied and fast paced role where no two days are the same. It is not a role that can be learned overnight, so we are seeking someone who is motivated by the challenge and eager to grow. Full training will be provided.

### Main duties of the job

The post holder will support the smooth running of the practice by coordinating patient care, navigating individuals to the most appropriate services, and ensuring effective communication across the healthcare system.

You will present a positive, friendly, and professional image to patients and visitors, whether in person or over the phone. You will help patients access the right clinician or service in a courteous, efficient, and effective manner, while supporting communication between patients, the primary care team, secondary care, and other healthcare agencies.

Key responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

Handling incoming calls from patients and healthcare agencies

Supporting patients to access the right service, clinician, or pathway

Managing patient administration, including registrations, deductions, and demographic updates

Processing clinical and administrative information from secondary care and other providers

Completing administrative tasks as directed by clinicians and the leadership team

Welcoming and checking in patients and visitors in a safe, polite, and efficient manner

Helping coordinate care plans, follow up actions, and referrals

Supporting proactive care initiatives and population health management activities

### About us

The Homewell Practice is committed to delivering high quality patient care and was rated GOOD by the CQC in 2022. You'll be joining a warm, collaborative, and supportive GP practice where every team member plays a vital role in patient experience.

We offer:

A friendly and welcoming working environment

Membership of the NHS Pension Scheme

Good local transport links

A paid day off on your birthday, because we believe in recognising and celebrating our staff

A supportive team culture where your wellbeing and development truly matter

### Details

- Date posted: 23 July 2026
- Pay scheme: Other
- Salary: £12.71 an hour
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Part-time
- Reference number: A3447-26-0001
- Job locations: Havant Health Centre, Havant Health Centre, Civic Centre Road, Havant, Hampshire, PO9 2AQ, United Kingdom

### Job responsibilities

Communicates clearly, sensitively and effectively with patients, family members and other professionals

Takes a proactive, problem-solving approach in helping support people to connect and access services

Demonstrates a positive, solution-focused approach to promote independence and well-being

Conduct calls in a polite, warm and professional manner

Receive and make telephone calls as required. Divert calls and take messages, ensuring accuracy of detail and prompt appropriate delivery

Identify people at risk and potentially vulnerable, using appropriate methods (as determined by local arrangements)

Understand local referral arrangements/pathways for holistic support from a wide range of sectors

Effective signposting to local services

Provide timely feedback to colleagues around issues relating to access to services

Apply skills and techniques (verbal and non-verbal) to resolve conflict, reduce distress and anger

Other Tasks:

Share relevant information, decisions and discussions made by health and social care teams, with the patient (and carer if appropriate)

Show initiative to re-refer a person if known to services when appropriate contact has not occurred with agreement and supervision of multidisciplinary team lead clinician

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Warm and empathetic communicator
- Good telephone manner and keyboard skills
- The ability to listen and follow instruction
- Problem solving
- Interpersonal skills
- Medical Terminology
- Ability to be flexible, use your own initiative and manage your own time effectively to ensure that all tasks are completed within the required timescales
- Used to working under pressure and to tight deadlines with multiple stakeholders
- Confident, organised and able to make decisions quickly

### Experience

**Essential**

- Practical experience of working as part of a team
- Experience of General Practice
- Experience using the ANIMA platform
- Excellent IT skills
- Experience of IT within a medical environment

**Desirable**

- Knowledge of how to collate and analyse data

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