Community Care Navigator

Job overview

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.

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.

Detailed job description and main 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.