Network Navigator - Haringey Inpatient Services | 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust

We are seeking committed and diligent staff to work as Network Navigators in our three Acute Mental Health Wards at Blossom Court, St Ann's Hospital. The roles are full time and in person with face to face working as a minimum expectation. These are new roles to work alongside our Patient Flow service and will 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.

The partnership between Barnet,Enfieldand Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originallyestablishedin 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.

In order tomeet the needs of the new Partnership services you may berequiredfrom time to time to work atdifferent locationsto your normal place of work. This may mean that youare required towork at any location that fall underBarnet,Enfield and Harringay Trust and Camden and Islington Trust. 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.