Care Navigator
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 09/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves working within the Enfield Integrated Proactive Care Service, a Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) focused on supporting residents with long-term health conditions and/or frailty. The Care Navigator will facilitate access to local health, social care, and community services, ensuring person-centred support. Key responsibilities include processing referrals, assessing patient needs, signposting to appropriate services, and developing personalised support plans. The role aims to improve health outcomes and support individuals to maintain independence within their communities through an integrated care approach.
Essential criteria
- Own vechicle business use with UK driving licence
- Experience of working in a health, social care, community, voluntary sector, or customer service environment.
- Experience of supporting patients, service users, or members of the public to access services.
- Experience of managing competing priorities and working to deadlines and accurate record keeping.
- Knowledge of health and wellbeing services available within the local community.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Understanding of integrated care and multidisciplinary team working.
Desirable criteria
- Care Certificate.
- Knowledge of RiO, or similar clinical systems.
- Understanding of integrated care and multidisciplinary team working.
- Experience supporting people with long-term conditions, frailty, mental health needs, or complex care needs.
- Education and Qualification
- oNationally recognised qualification in health, social care, counselling or other relevant professional or academic qualification
- oCommitment to/evidence of continuous professional development.
- oLevel of educational attainment to NVQ 3 / AS Level or equivalent
- Willingness to undertake further training relevant to and in line with the development of peer support role.
- Skills and Aptitudes
- Computer literate, able to use email, the internet and web searches as standard applications and databases
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written; able to supply reports as required.
- Ability to collect data efficiently in order to provide statistical evidence for analysis
- Can demonstrate an approach to gaining knowledge of local services.
- Thorough and up-to-date knowledge and understanding of policy and practice in Adult Social Care and Health, including the principles of personalisation
- Own vechicle business use with UK driving licence
- Experience of working in a health, social care, community, voluntary sector, or customer service environment.
- Experience of supporting patients, service users, or members of the public to access services.
- Experience of managing competing priorities and working to deadlines and accurate record keeping.
- Knowledge of health and wellbeing services available within the local community.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Understanding of integrated care and multidisciplinary team working.
- Care Certificate.
- Knowledge of RiO, or similar clinical systems.
- Understanding of integrated care and multidisciplinary team working.
- Experience supporting people with long-term conditions, frailty, mental health needs, or complex care needs.
- Education and Qualification
- oNationally recognised qualification in health, social care, counselling or other relevant professional or academic qualification
- oCommitment to/evidence of continuous professional development.
- oLevel of educational attainment to NVQ 3 / AS Level or equivalent
- Willingness to undertake further training relevant to and in line with the development of peer support role.
- Skills and Aptitudes
- Computer literate, able to use email, the internet and web searches as standard applications and databases
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written; able to supply reports as required.
- Ability to collect data efficiently in order to provide statistical evidence for analysis
- Can demonstrate an approach to gaining knowledge of local services.
- Thorough and up-to-date knowledge and understanding of policy and practice in Adult Social Care and Health, including the principles of personalisation
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £33,262 – £36,027 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 6d ago · Closes in 3d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Care Navigator
The closing date is 09 September 2026
Job summary
The Enfield Integrated Proactive Care Service is an Enfield Community Services (ECS) Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) within the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, operating under the North Middlesex University Hospital (NMUH) unit. The service provides coordinated, person-centred support and interventions for residents living with long-term health conditions and/or frailty, helping them to proactively manage their health and wellbeing through an integrated approach to care.
Working collaboratively with the local authority, acute hospital
trusts, primary care services, and the voluntary sector, the MDT delivers
integrated, person-centred care to Enfield residents who are registered with an Enfield GP, helping to improve health outcomes and support individuals to remain independent within their communities.
The successful candidate will join an ambitious and inclusive partnership that is helping to shape the future of integrated care in Enfield. Working closely with clinicians, community partners, and system leaders, you will play a key role in supporting residents through a more connected, preventative, and person-centred approach to care.
This role offers an exciting opportunity to further develop the Enfield Proactive Care Service Multi-Disciplinary Team (MD
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