Network Navigators

North London NHS Foundation Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the United Kingdom seeks a Network Navigator to work at Blossom Court, St Ann’s Hospital. This role emphasizes identifying and resolving discharge barriers for patients on an acute mental health ward. Responsibilities include coordinating with ward staff, facilitating meetings, and ensuring timely patient discharge. Full-time hours are Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm, and no professional registration is required. Benefits include NHS discounts and a supportive working environment.

Benefits

NHS discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in mental health settings preferred.
• Ability to work collaboratively with various stakeholders.
• Strong organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Work with Discharge Coordinators to identify patient barriers to discharge.
• Organize patient meetings for timely discharge resolutions.
• Facilitate contributions of carers and coordinate with multiple teams.
• Ensure 72-hour formulation meetings are held and actions completed.

Job description

Our Vision & Core Values

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people.

• Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high‑quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma‑informed approach to everything we do.

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

Network Navigator Role

The Network Navigator works on an acute mental health ward at Blossom Court, St Ann’s Hospital. The role is full time, in‑person with face‑to‑face working as a minimum expectation. The Network Navigator is part of a wider system of supporting and managing patient access and flow within the North London Mental Health Partnership.

• Work closely with Discharge Coordinators and ward staff to identify individual patient strengths and barriers to discharge at the earliest opportunity following admission.
• Organise the system around the patient to join key meetings during admission and ensure timely resolution of barriers to discharge when patients are clinically ready.
• Facilitate the contribution of carers, a key activity, and coordinate with community mental health, substance misuse teams, voluntary sector organisations, criminal justice staff and housing providers where relevant.
• Ensure 72‑hour formulation meetings are in place, link with ward staff and complete all actions to facilitate the safe discharge of the in‑patient population as and when they are clinically ready for discharge.

Hours & Working Conditions

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

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.

The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at any location that falls under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that falls 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.

Location

Blossom Court, St Ann’s Hospital, North London Mental Health Partnership.