Care Navigator

Rethink Mental Illness; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization in mental health care is seeking a dedicated Care Navigator to join their team in East Riding of Yorkshire. In this role, you will provide essential support to individuals transitioning from prison, ensuring they reconnect with vital health services and manage their wellbeing. This opportunity comes with significant responsibilities aimed at reducing health inequalities and reoffending rates, as well as promoting a diverse and inclusive environment for all. If you are passionate about mental health and making a difference, we want to hear from you.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience and passion for mental health support.
• Ability to manage wellbeing and reduce reoffending.
• Experience in working with vulnerable populations.

Responsibilities

• Provide holistic support and ensure continuity of care post-release from prison.
• Assist individuals in reconnecting with health services.
• Manage wellbeing using a coaching framework.

Skills

Supportive Communication

Empathy

Problem Solving

Education

Relevant Mental Health Qualification

Job description

Social network you want to login/join with:

Care Navigator, East Riding of Yorkshire

col-narrow-left

Client:

Rethink Mental Illness

Location:

East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

-

EU work permit required:

Yes

col-narrow-right

Job Reference:

cdac25c7115b

Job Views:

7

Posted:

17.06.2025

Expiry Date:

01.08.2025

col-wide

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced and passionate Care Navigator to work as part of our Prisons and Criminal Justice Directorate Team.

Imagine being part of an organisation whose common purpose is to help those who are severely impacted by mental illness. We believe that everyone should be treated with respect and dignity – and that’s why equity is one of our core values. We draw on the expertise, unique perspectives and lived experience of our people – regardless of who they are or their background – to help us become inclusive and anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider that reflect the diverse communities we support as a mental health charity.

Rethink Mental Illness work alongside Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust (TEWV) and Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust to deliver an integrated stepped care mental health service within HMP Hull and Humber.

The team compromises a range of highly skilled professionals who work collaboratively to provide the highest quality of care for those with mental health needs within the prison and for Rethink Mental Illness employees, this is carried out between 0800 – 1600 Monday to Friday.

There may be some travel involved, but this will be done in work time and expenses paid to support service delivery.

How you will make a difference

I provide a seamless package of support to ensure holistic and meaningful support is provided to those with health vulnerabilities on their release from prison, ensuring continuity of care and fruition of release plans. Reconnecting individuals with health services to reduce health inequalities and in turn reduce reoffending. The Care Navigators are embedded in integrated mental health teams and community settings, providing 1:1 and group assessment and support in a variety of settings and hold highly autonomous roles. Care Navigators, use a coaching framework, to manage wellbeing in the pre and post release period, to prevent a return to ill health as well as a reduction in reoffending. By preventing this decline in health, through robust reconnection with health services in the community we will reduce health inequalities for those leaving the criminal justice system and provide support to allow a seamless, and effective transition to independent community living.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

Diversity is important to us and we appreciate difference through difference, inclusiveness and belonging. It gives us a deeper understanding of the world, our society and the diverse communities we’re working with. By including everyone, we are able to draw on the unique experiences and expertise of our people to help shape and enrich our workplace and improve our services. One way we are doing is through our valued staff networks which play a critical and highly valued role in keeping us focused on creating a diverse, inclusive and engaged employer. We recognise and support staff networks and support groups for our ethnically diverse and LGBTQIA+ colleagues. We are also proud to have been awarded Disability Confident Employer statusand are a signatory to the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter.

We aim for our workforce to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve; for those who work for us to feel heard, valued and feel they belong; and for our work to help tackle wider mental health inequalities. We therefore actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience of mental illness, those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual and any other gender identity not expressed here (LGBTQIA+); people who are neurodiverse, have a health condition, or a disability or hidden disability and people from an ethnically diverse background - regardless of your age, religious or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, political view or socio-economic status.

Becoming a truly anti-racist organisation

We have an ambition of become a truly anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider -and in our efforts to influence policy and wider societal factors impacting on mental health set out in ouranti-racist statement.We have designed a multi-year anti-racist programme of work contained in ourRace Equality Action Planwhich demonstrates our intention to hold ourselves accountable and be judged on our progress on becoming a truly anti-racist organisation. You can read more about our progress here.

If you have any questions about the position, please contact -