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Care Navigator
Role summary
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The Care Navigator supports patients and carers by helping them access appropriate health, social care and community services. Duties may include handling enquiries, coordinating appointments and referrals, updating records, signposting patients, and working closely with clinicians and partner organisations. Candidates are expected to have strong communication, organisation and customer-service skills, empathy, confidentiality awareness, and the ability to manage competing priorities. Experience in healthcare, social care, administration or working with vulnerable people is advantageous. The role requires accurate IT and record-keeping skills, teamwork, professionalism and a commitment to equality, safeguarding and person-centred care.
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.
Working in the UK
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About Provide CIC
Provide Community Interest Company (Provide CIC) is a social enterprise delivering health and social care services in partnership with the NHS and local authorities. It operates across communities in the East of England, supporting people through services such as community healthcare, primary care, mental health, dental care, diagnostics, rehabilitation and social prescribing. As a not-for-profit organisation, Provide CIC aims to improve wellbeing, reduce health inequalities and help people receive coordinated care closer to home. Its teams commonly work across clinical, administrative and community settings, collaborating with hospitals, GPs, voluntary organisations and social-care providers. The organisation promotes inclusive, person-centred services and offers employees access to structured NHS-style development, benefits and professional support, subject to the specific role and employment terms.