Network Navigator - Haringey Inpatient Services | North London NHS Foundation Trust

Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS health provider in Greater London is seeking a full-time Network Navigator for their Acute Mental Health Wards. The role involves direct patient interaction, ensuring care planning and timely discharge through collaboration with clinical teams. Candidates should be committed and diligent, ideally with experience in a mental health setting. This position requires excellent communication skills and the ability to work flexibly in various locations across the North London area.

Benefits

NHS Discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Supportive environment for staff

Qualifications

• Experience in a mental health setting is preferred.
• Strong communication skills to facilitate relationships with patients and staff.
• Ability to work flexibly across different locations.

Responsibilities

• Work directly on Acute Mental Health Wards ensuring patient discharge is timely.
• Collaborate with discharge coordinators and ward staff for patient care.
• Attend key meetings to ensure care planning is informed and timely.

Skills

Commitment

Diligence

Therapeutic interaction

Care planning

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.

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.

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.

Network Navigators will be responsible at ward level for ensuring that each patient’s 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 patient’s 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 patient’s 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.

This advert closes on Monday 22 Dec 2025.