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Care Navigator
Role summary
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The Care Navigator helps patients access appropriate health, social care and community services. Requirements typically include experience in a healthcare, social care, customer-service or administrative setting, good IT and telephone skills, accurate record keeping, and an understanding of confidentiality and safeguarding. The successful candidate should communicate sensitively with people from varied backgrounds, assess basic needs, provide clear information, coordinate referrals and follow up where necessary. The role requires teamwork with clinicians and external agencies, effective prioritisation, reliability and the ability to work calmly with confidential or sometimes complex information. A caring, organised and person-centred approach is essential. Relevant qualifications or NHS and community-care experience may be desirable, although training is often provided.
Can I work in the UK?
Never pay anyone for a visa or a job offer. A real employer pays the permit costs and never asks you for money.
How it works
How it works: NHS nurses, doctors and allied health get a Health and Care Worker visa (about 3 weeks, no health surcharge); care workers lost this route on 22 July 2025.
Before you apply: Nurses, doctors and most allied health staff must be registered or licensed locally before they start: expect checks on your degree and licence, often an English test, and often an exam or an assessment. Ask the employer who handles it and how long it takes. Most pharma and device office jobs do not need it.
Watch for: Pay follows the NHS pay bands and is usually at least GBP 25,000. Nurses and allied health also need UK professional registration; care workers cannot be sponsored from abroad.
Official source: GOV.UK: Health and Care Worker visa, your job. Checked November 2026.
What the job usually comes with in the UK
Usual for Healthcare jobs in the UK, varies by employer. Checked November 2026.
| Registration | Join the Nursing and Midwifery Council register: English language rules and a Test of Competence |
|---|---|
| Relocation | Visa fee GBP 324 (up to 3 years) or GBP 628 (longer); no health surcharge on this visa |
| Housing | Not usually provided; you rent privately |
| Flights | Not standard; varies by employer and seniority |
| Contract | Permanent is usual; sponsored work visas last up to 5 years at a time |
| Leave | At least 28 days for a 5-day week (by law); employers may count bank holidays in it |
| Income tax | 0% to GBP 12,570, 20% to GBP 50,270, then 40%; plus 8% National Insurance (Scotland differs) |
Senior staff often get more than line staff, for example a single room or a yearly home flight. Ask the employer what the job includes before you accept.
Guidance, not legal advice. Rules change; your employer confirms the details for your case.
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About Provide CIC
Provide CIC is a not-for-profit social enterprise that delivers health and social care services in partnership with the NHS, local authorities and community organisations. Its services can include primary care support, community health, wellbeing, prevention, social prescribing and care coordination. The organisation focuses on helping people remain independent, improving access to services and reducing health inequalities. Staff commonly work across multidisciplinary teams and connect individuals with clinical, social, voluntary-sector and community resources. As a community interest company, Provide CIC aims to reinvest its work and resources into better local services rather than operating solely for shareholder profit. A Care Navigator role supports this mission by helping people understand their options, reach the right service and receive joined-up support. The exact duties, location and employment terms depend on the specific NHS service and vacancy.