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Vacancy - Care Navigator
- Hours: Full & Part-time + Saturdays as overtime on a rota basis
- Salary: £24,950.43 per annum pro rata
- Contract Length: Permanent & Fixed Term
- Closing date: 19 July 2026
- Interview date: 30 July 2026
Overview
Join our team at Frome Medical Practice as a Care Navigator! You will be responsible for providing excellent patient support, booking appointments, signposting to other departments, and handling enquiries from patients and visitors. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication and organisational skills. Apply now and start your rewarding career as a Care Navigator.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic, innovative, welcoming and supportive team providing primary care, at Frome Medical Practice. We are a single site practice and Primary Care Network in our own right with a patient population of just under 30,000. We have received National Awards for Sustainability and our Green Impact work and have also been nationally recognised for our outstanding Health Connections (social prescribing) programme, which is based in the practice. We have strong relationships with our local community and local healthcare providers and are situated next to the local community hospital.
We are committed to providing an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best and most rewarding work of your career.
The Care Navigator role may offer potential future development opportunities, including progression into deputy or team lead positions.
The hours available are full and part time as well as permanent and fixed term options. Saturday hours are on an overtime basis of 4 hours on around 6 occasions per annum on a rota.
Main responsibilities
- Be responsive to the needs of patients and navigate patient care to the correct destination
- Ensure call waiting times are kept to a minimum while providing a high quality care navigation service to patients
- Book, rearrange and cancel appointments.
- Work in both the Call Centre and on the Information Desk
- Assist with additional clinics e.g. flu, immunisations
- To support clinicians where appropriate and check in on them
Benefits
- NHS pension available
- Free parking
- NHS & local discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- In-house training
- Employee events
- Free eye test vouchers
Essential qualifications and experience:
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- Good level of general education.
Experience
Essential
- Proven administration skills.
- Experience of working with the general public.
- Ability to demonstrate a high standard of communication skills with a range of people; face to face, on the telephone and in writing.
Desirable
- Experience of working within a busy call centre environment.
- Awareness of the type of work undertaken in a GP practice and familiar with medical terminology.
Personal qualities & attributes
Essential
- Develop and maintain good working relationships both within the team and organisation.
- Able to work well individually as well as within a team – able to demonstrate previous effectiveness in this area.
- Customer care skills - able to be consistently welcoming and friendly to patients and visitors to the practice.
- Able to use own initiative and make decisions when required.
- Excellent time management skills.
Skills & knowledge
Essential
- Well organised and work systematically to a high level of accuracy.
- Able to follow procedures and protocols.
- High level of computer literacy.
Other
Essential
- Able to work flexible hours including late evenings and Saturday mornings on a rota.
Applications
Closing date for applications: 19 July 2026
Interview date: 30 July 2026
Our online application process begins with the completion of our equal opportunities monitoring form, before moving on to the application form.
We reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.