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Job overview
The post holder will play a senior leadership role within a specialist team delivering and shaping an innovative violence reduction service embedded within the Emergency Department (ED).
They will contribute to the strategic development, operational management, and continuous improvement of the service, ensuring high-quality, trauma-informed interventions are consistently delivered.
Main duties of the job
- Work autonomously across the Emergency Department and community settings to identify, assess, and engage individuals affected by violence, exploitation, trauma, and safeguarding risks
- Manage a specialist caseload of high-risk and complex cases, leading on safeguarding decisions, risk management, referrals, and multi-agency coordination.
- Deliver comprehensive trauma-informed assessments and develop tailored intervention, safety, and support plans to reduce harm and prevent re-attendance.
- Build trusted relationships with individuals at the “reachable moment” using trauma-informed and motivational approaches to encourage positive change and engagement.
- Provide senior leadership within the Navigator team, including supervision, appraisals, training, induction, and professional support for staff.
- Maintain safe and effective practice across the service, acting as a role model and escalation point for complex safeguarding and operational issues.
- Lead on service development, audit, quality improvement, data monitoring, and reporting to ensure compliance and demonstrate service impact
- Develop strong multi-agency partnerships and represent the Navigator service in safeguarding, strategy, and partnership forums to coordinate effective support and advocacy.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
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Applying for this NHS job
This advert is for ED Senior Navigator with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Sheffield, North East and Yorkshire, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Administrative and IT role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 pa/pro rata for part time staff. The contract type is 10 months (Fixed Term Contract until 31/03/27, All existing NHS staff will only be considered on a secondment basis.). The application deadline is 07 Jun 2026.
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