Job vacancy: EWS Care Navigator, Provide CIC, Colchester

Job summary

Main area: Care navigator
Grade: Band 3
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday hours between 8am - 7pm and a Saturday 9am - 12pm)
Job ref: 828-PROVIDE2972-A

Employer: Provide CIC
Employer type: NHS
Site: Provide Headquarters
Town: Colchester
Salary: £22,816 - £24,336 Per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/07/2024 23:59

EWS Care Navigator

Band 3

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

· To assess by telephone people readiness to change and identify support needed to improve lifestyle and self-management capacity and organise access to relevant services.

· Helping people to find and use local services they need and if necessary, signpost to specialist services for emotional support, independent living and or other relevant services.

· To follow up client during and after completion of their lifestyle change intervention and discuss further steps.

· Provide evidence-based information to people about a range of health issues related to lifestyle choices such as smoking, physical inactivity, unhealthy eating.

· Undertake any other delegated work

· Any other function commensurate with competencies and job role

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

NVQ Level 3 Health and social care
Equivalent training and experience in health care setting

Desirable criteria

Level 2 Health Trainer Qualification - Understanding Health Improvement (Royal Institute of Public Health)
Level 2 Stop Smoking Cessation

Experience

Essential criteria

Proven track record of engagement with people in a customer focused environment
Excellent knowledge of the local community
Knowledge of behavior change methods
An understanding and knowledge of the main health issues affecting the local population
Experience of working with individuals on a one to one basis in a health/social care setting
Knowledge of the impact of barriers to health improvement

Skills & Aptitudes

Essential criteria

Well organised and ability to prioritise workload
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
IT skills and data imputing on SystmOne
Able to manage own time and work unsupervised
Able to work under pressure and in target driven environment

Desirable criteria

Willingness to undertake further training as appropriate

FURTHER INFORMATION:

How will we contact you?

All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
If you wish to contact the HR Services Team, please do this via [email protected]
If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.

Checking progress on your application?

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Closing Date

Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.

Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?

If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.

COVID-19 Vaccination

Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination.

We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.

Anti Fraud

Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.

Disability

If you have a disability and need assistance or more time to complete your application or attending interview, please contact a member of the HR Services Team on 0300 3030 2661 or [email protected].

Work Trials

Please check with your local Job Centre Plus to see if you are eligible for a Work Trial. If you are interested in trying this job first, please contact the HR Services team and we can help you make the arrangements with the Job Centre and the Recruiting Manager.

We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.

Successful Applicant:

You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the HR Co-ordinators.

The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.