Community Navigator - Mental Health

London, Greater London (Hybrid)
£29,000 - £31,000 per year
Part-time (21 hours per week)
Contract (12 month maternity cover)

Actively Interviewing

This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!

Job description

SMART is hiring! We have a vacancy for a one year maternity cover contract, for a part time mental health Community Navigator. The Navigators support people with serious mental illness, with a range of issues including: housing, benefits, finance and social isolation.

We offer a friendly, collaborative, hybrid and integrated work environment in partnership with the NHS and other voluntary sector services, as well as a pension program, 28 days annual leave (pro rata for a part-time role), employee led HR processes and a competitive salary.

Ideally you will have experience of working within mental health/vulnerable adult services, working within multi-disciplinary teams, knowledge of the issues people face with housing/benefits etc and liaising with other services and professionals on service users behalf. 

The part-time role can be flexible to suit your needs, and can be worked over 3-5 days. We can discuss your preference at the interview stage. 

Application Deadline: 12th July at 23:30. PLEASE NOTE: We may interview before the closing date if we receive enough suitable applications

Feedback: Unfortunately, we are not able to give feedback to candidates not shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within a week of the closing date, please assume your application has not been shortlisted at this time.

Application resources
Application Instructions

Please send us your CV and a covering letter (no more than 2 pages of A4), addressing each of the ‘competencies and experience’ listed in the person specification.

Posted by
SMART View profile Organisation type Registered Charity Company size 11 - 20
Posted on: Thursday, 12 June 2025
Closing date: 12 July 2025 at 23:30
Tags: Advice / Information, Social Care / Development, Advocacy, Housing, Engagement / Outreach, Health / Medical, Mental Health, Mentoring / Coaching, Safeguarding, Wellbeing, Social / Support Work

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