Network Navigator - Haringey Inpatient Services

North London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A major healthcare provider in London is seeking a Network Navigator for its Acute Mental Health Wards. This full-time, in-person role involves coordinating patient care, ensuring timely discharges, and liaising with multidisciplinary teams. Applicants should hold a diploma in mental health practice or equivalent qualifications, along with significant experience in managing patients with serious mental illness. The position offers a competitive salary and the possibility of work in various locations across North London depending on service needs.

Benefits

NHS Discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Excellent internal staff network

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Significant experience of caring for people with serious mental illness.
• Sound understanding of the needs and difficulties of these patients.
• Experience of working in an acute mental health inpatient setting.

Responsibilities

• Ensure patients' network of care is involved early in the admission.
• Organise systems around the patient to join key meetings.
• Identify individual patients' strengths and barriers to discharge.

Skills

Digital competence

Able to work on own initiative

Education

Diploma in Mental Health Practice or NVQ level 3 or 4

GCSE level or equivalent

Job description

We are seeking committed and diligent staff to work as a Network Navigator on one of our Acute Mental Health Wards at Blossom Court, St Ann's Hospital. This role is full time and in person with face to face working as a minimum expectation. The Network Navigator roles is be part of a wider system of supporting and managing our patient access and flow within the North London Mental Health Partnership.

Main duties of the job

Directly reporting to the Discharge Coordinator - you will be assigned to a an acute ward and will spend each day operating within the ward, ensuring our 72 hour formulation meetings are in place, linking in with the ward staff and ensuring all actions are completed in order to facilitate the safe discharge of the in-patient population as and when they are clinically ready for discharge.

Hours of work are Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm - five days per week. Please note professional registration is not required for these roles.

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

Why NLFT?

We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.

We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.

NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme

Excellent internal staff network

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job responsibilities

Network Navigators will be responsible at ward level for ensuring that each patients network of care is involved early in admission to inform care planning and timely discharge. They will organise this system around the patient to join key meetings during the admission.

The quality of interaction with patients and those involved in their care will be characterised by an approach that is therapeutic, strengths based, and recovery orientated. The network will include as wide a range of relevant individuals and services as required to support the patients recovery. This will include carers, community mental health and substance misuse teams, voluntary sector organisations, criminal justice system staff and housing providers where relevant.

The post holders will work closely with Discharge Coordinators and their designated ward(s) to identify individual patients strengths and barriers to discharge at the earliest opportunity following admission. They will work with the clinical teams involved to ensure timely resolution of barriers to ensure patients are discharged when they are clinically ready. Facilitating the contribution of carers is a key activity.

Person Specification

Experience and Knoweldge

• Significant experience of caring for people with serious mental illness.
• Demonstrate a sound understanding of the needs and difficulties of people with serious mental illness and their carers.
• Significant experience of caring for people with serious mental illness.
• Experience of working in an acute mental health inpatient setting.

Qualifications/Registrations

• Diploma in Mental Health Practice or NVQ level 3 or 4 in Mental Health or Evidence of extensive and current paid experience of working with patients with serious mental illness
• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent (with a minimum of 5 A - E qualifications - which must include Maths and English).

Skills/Abilities

• Digital competence: Outlook, Word, data entry in EPR systems and excel plus internet search capability.
• Able to work on own initiative.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£32,199 to £34,876 a yearPer annum including HCAS