HCRG Care Group
Community Health Navigator
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Job Introduction
We are looking for a dedicated Community Health Navigator to join our amazing team!
The Community Health Navigator will provide a professional and efficient customer experience for members of the public, patients, professionals, and colleagues by telephone, by email, and by post, as the first point of contact in the BSW (B&NES Swindon Wiltshire) Community Health Services SPA.
The role will support and navigate the caller through community services, providing relevant signposting, advice, and support. The post holder will capture all service user contact and any required follow-up actions in the patient’s clinical record, always ensuring accuracy and confidentiality. The post holder will manage the flow of incoming paper and electronic referrals, following service pathways and protocols to ensure patients are referred, triaged, and seen in a timely manner by the most appropriate team or professional.
This is a demanding role requiring high levels of administrative skills/communication skills and the ability to work proactively as part of a team. The role also requires a high level of client and stakeholder contact, requiring a high level of inter-personal skills and personal confidence. Having a respectful and empathetic attitude will be essential, with the capacity to manage highly sensitive, complex, and confidential information.
We have 2 full-time roles available working 37.5 hours per week.
Base: High Post Business Park, Salisbury, SP4 6AT
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This post is responsible for:
- Manage information in a tactful, sensitive, and strictly confidential manner, showing empathy and judgement, in liaison with appropriate professionals as required.
- Act as the first point of contact for all service users accessing the BSW Community Health Services SPA.
- Respond to incoming telephony calls, filtering and directing as appropriate and providing signposting/support as required.
- Assess the information provided by the caller and direct the call and any follow-up actions as appropriate. This will include an element of analysis to help the post holder to decide on the urgency of the call and attention to detail to ensure all calls/referrals follow the correct processes.
- Able to express empathy when handling emotional or difficult calls, the post holder should be able to recognise distress and demonstrate understanding of the caller’s emotion at that time, to de-escalate/support the situation as best as possible.
- Ensure accurate data input to key IT systems and databases. This will include scanning and attaching documents, creating patient records, updating personal information relating to service users, generating standard letters, and discharging referrals.
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Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.
Person Specification
Essential:
- Maths and English GCSE (A-C) or equivalent qualification level
- Administration Experience
- IT Systems Experience
- High level of computer literacy to include a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages including Outlook, Word, Excel
- Accurate and efficient IT and keyboard skills
- Effective interpersonal, organisational, and communication skills. Ability to communicate clearly with a wide variety of colleagues and service users, both verbally and in writing
- Ability to work with discretion, sensitivity, and maintain confidentiality
- Good planning and organisational skills and ability to meet deadlines
- Ability to prioritise and manage workload within a busy environment
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Excellent planning and organisational skills and ability to meet deadlines
Desirable:
- NVQ II Administration
- NVQ II Customer Services
- Previous health or social care experience
- Understanding of medical terminology
- Knowledge of clinical systems or databases
Package Description
As a Senior Community Health Navigator, you’ll be part of our valued team based at Kempthorne House. You will feel valued as a Senior Community Health Navigator within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- A salary of £27,674 - £30,557 with access to our group pension
- Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt, and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways, and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
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About The Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology, and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments, and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people, and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
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