Manchester Thrive Navigator

Transformationunitgm; Manchester; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in Manchester is seeking M Thrive Hub Navigators to enhance wellbeing support for children and young people. The role focuses on community engagement, advising service users, and fostering connections across various health and social care sectors. Candidates must have significant experience with young individuals in mental health settings.

Qualifications

• Significant experience with young people experiencing mental health issues.
• Experience in community service delivery.
• Group work experience is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Act as enablers and supporters in the community.
• Map and develop relationships with local services.
• Support individuals with accessing Wellbeing Services.

Skills

Working with young people

Advice and support

Community liaison

Education

NVQ Level 4 or equivalent experience

Qualification relevant to working with young people

Job description

Employer Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Harrington Building: Royal Manchester Children's Hospital Town Manchester Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 17/06/2025 23:59

Band 5

Job overview

The THRIVE framework, jointly developed by the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families and the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, has provided a systematic and population focused approach to improving outcomes for children, young people and their families.

I-THRIVE support the provision of services using a whole-system approach to the delivery of child wellbeing services. This involves taking a population approach to delivery of care; enabling integration across health, care, education, social care and third sectors, and a central focus on delivering improved outcomes for children and young people.

The Manchester (M) Thrive Hub is a single point of entry, a front door, to Manchester’s Emotional Wellbeing Services. The M Thrive Hub Practitioners willwork within one of the three Manchester locality M Thrive Hubs (North, Central, South).

Main duties of the job

The M Thrive Hub Navigators roles will include acting as enablers and systems supporters; provding advice, information and signposting to wellbeing services. The key aim of the M-Thrive stratey is to ensure that children, young people and carers are able to Thrive in their local communites.

M Thrive Hub Navigators will work to map and develop close working relatioships with the whole range of local services in their area. This is to enable an intergreated communty response to meet the wellbing needs of children, young people, families and carers . This will involve working along side all stake holders ,including children, young people and carers.

The Thrive Navigators will signpost and support people into services in the community, predominantly VCSE sector. They are able to support joint visits with other professionals as well as lone visits to help support improving an individual’s well-being in their local community.

The role of the Thrive navigator is not a clinical one and will have a strength based person centred approach when working with people to come up with the best support plans with that person at that time involving all other services when appropriate. The Nagivator will be responsible for the planning and delivery of youth support offer to Children and Young People.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [e-mail] .

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification

Qualifications

• A qualification relevant to working with young people
• NVQ Level 4 and above or equivalent experience to degree level (post or undergraduate) or equivalent experience to degree level
• A desire to obtain a CYP IAPT offer

Experience

• Substantial experience of working with young people with mental health problems.
• Experience of liaison with a range of agencies.
• Experience of group work
• Experience of delivering services in a community setting

Employer certification / accreditation badges

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.