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Community Care Navigator Employment Contract UK

Name: Community Care Navigator Employment Contract UK
Brand: HRHeaven
SKU: social_care_care_navigator_generated_v1
Price: 19.99 GBP
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Define practical navigation across health, care and community services without overstating decision-making authority.

Watercolour illustration showing Care Navigator at work in Social Care on a pale sage background

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Last updated: 19 June 2026
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Job description

Clear role overview and key responsibilities.

Probation period

Clear probation terms for the selected arrangement.

Role-specific duties

Maintained responsibilities, records and authority boundaries for the selected role.

Working hours

Standard and flexible working arrangements.

Holiday entitlement

Holiday terms explained for the selected arrangement.

Confidentiality

Client and company confidentiality.

Disciplinary process

Clear process and employee rights.

Notice periods

Notice terms explained for both parties.

Before you create it

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When to use this contract

Deliver explore goals needs and access barriers, identify current services and referral routes, and obtain and record appropriate consent.

Workplace context: Care home, community care, client home or agreed care settings.

What makes this role different

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the population pathways and local directory. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the contact channels and travel expectations. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the consent referral and case-record process. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the urgent welfare and safeguarding routes. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering CQC requirements where applicable.

Not a fit / obtain specialist advice

Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: A Care Navigator helps people identify and access suitable local support, often across health, social care, housing and voluntary services. Terms should cover referral sources, consent, identity, accessible communication, current service directories, warm handovers, waiting-list expectations and follow-up. The navigator should not diagnose, determine eligibility for another body, guarantee acceptance or share a person's circumstances across agencies without an appropriate basis. Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

What to prepare before you issue it

the population pathways and local directory
the contact channels and travel expectations
the consent referral and case-record process
the urgent welfare and safeguarding routes
the supervisor health council and voluntary contacts

Day-to-day operating brief

What Care Navigator work looks like in practice

A Care Navigator helps people identify and access suitable local support, often across health, social care, housing and voluntary services. Terms should cover referral sources, consent, identity, accessible communication, current service directories, warm handovers, waiting-list expectations and follow-up. The navigator should not diagnose, determine eligibility for another body, guarantee acceptance or share a person's circumstances across agencies without an appropriate basis. Responsible for providing safe, respectful care or support within competence, following care plans, protecting dignity, maintaining accurate care records and escalating welfare, safeguarding, medication or service concerns promptly The Employee is employed as Care Navigator in the Employer's Social Care business. The role involves providing safe, respectful care or support within competence, following care plans, protecting dignity, maintaining accurate care records and escalating welfare, safeguarding, medication or service concerns promptly The Employee must follow the social care operational controls that apply to care navigator work, including CQC requirements where applicable, safeguarding, care planning, medication procedures, dignity and privacy, accurate record keeping, escalation and safe working requirements The Employee must protect care plans, medication records, service user information, safeguarding records, family communications and any related personal data, operational records, system access details or confidential information accessed while performing care navigator duties Care Navigator work in Social Care must follow CQC requirements where applicable, safeguarding, care planning, medication procedures, dignity and privacy and the Employer's policies, data protection controls, health and safety rules, records, escalation routes and training requirements Care Navigator Safeguarding awareness Person-centred conduct Record accuracy Navigation is strongest when follow-up confirms whether the person understood the contact, reached the service and could meet its practical conditions. Digital exclusion, language, transport and caring responsibilities should be recorded as access barriers rather than treated as lack of engagement.

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

Explore goals needs and access barriers.
Identify current services and referral routes.
Obtain and record appropriate consent.
Make referrals and coordinate handovers.
Track outcomes and escalate welfare concerns.

A realistic working scenario

Outputs to agree

explore goals needs and access barriers
identify current services and referral routes
obtain and record appropriate consent

Records and evidence

The population pathways and local directory.
The contact channels and travel expectations.
The consent referral and case-record process.
The urgent welfare and safeguarding routes.
Care plans.
Care notes.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Registered Manager, Service Manager, Team Leader or Care Coordinator. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

A Care Navigator helps people identify and access suitable local support, often across health, social care, housing and voluntary services. Terms should cover referral sources, consent, identity, accessible communication, current service directories, warm handovers, waiting-list expectations and follow-up. The navigator should not diagnose, determine eligibility for another body, guarantee acceptance or share a person's circumstances across agencies without an appropriate basis.
Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Tools and systems

Care record systems.
Rostering systems.
Medication records where authorised.
Moving and handling equipment where trained.
Secure communication tools.

Workplace context

Care home, community care, client home or agreed care settings.

Training and certification

Complete employer-required safeguarding training.
Complete employer-required health and safety training.

Contract priorities

the population pathways and local directory
the contact channels and travel expectations
the consent referral and case-record process
the urgent welfare and safeguarding routes

Information the employer should prepare

the population pathways and local directory
the contact channels and travel expectations
the consent referral and case-record process
the urgent welfare and safeguarding routes
the supervisor health council and voluntary contacts

Individually written and reviewed against the maintained role record.

Maintained role evidence

The facts this Care Navigator contract is built around

These role-pack details give an employer something concrete to check before using the contract for social care work.

Work setting

Care home, community care, client home or agreed care settings.

Primary duties

Explore goals needs and access barriers.
Identify current services and referral routes.
Obtain and record appropriate consent.
Make referrals and coordinate handovers.

Tools and training to confirm

Care record systems.
Rostering systems.
Medication records where authorised.
Moving and handling equipment where trained.

Governance focus

CQC context where applicable. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the population pathways and local directory. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the contact channels and travel expectations. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the consent referral and case-record process.

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Role wording

Care Navigator duties

Deliver explore goals needs and access barriers, identify current services and referral routes, and obtain and record appropriate consent.

Explore goals needs and access barriers. Identify current services and referral routes. Obtain and record appropriate consent. Make referrals and coordinate handovers. Track outcomes and escalate welfare concerns.

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What is added to the finished contract

Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the population pathways and local directory.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering the contact channels and travel expectations.

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Employee Handbook + Contract Bundle

Employee handbook bundle

Care Navigator Contract + Employee Handbook Bundle

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