Health Navigator Multi Agency Child Protection Team
Oxford
Full Time
£57,528 - £64,750 per annum
Expires: 08/06/2026
Band 8a
Secondment: 9 months (This is a new post and with time limited funding from July to April 27)
About the Role
Job overview
Please note that this is an internal only role and therefore only current employees of Oxford Health are eligible to apply
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Named Nurse/Professional – Health Navigator to join the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team (MACPT).
This is a senior safeguarding role designed to strengthen the integration of health within multi-agency child protection systems. The postholder will act as a specialist health safeguarding advisor and system navigator, ensuring that health perspectives are fully embedded in decision-making where children may be at risk of significant harm.
Working in a dynamic multi-agency environment, you will support partners to meet statutory safeguarding duties under Section 47 of the Children Act 1989, providing expert advice, facilitating access to health services, and promoting a coordinated, whole-system approach to safeguarding.
This is an analytical, advisory, and facilitative role and does not involve holding a statutory caseload.
Please note that interviews are scheduled for Wednesday 10th June from 14:00 - 17:00.
Main duties of the job
As the Health Navigator within MACPT, you provide specialist safeguarding advice and act as the lead health advisor in multi-agency processes. You navigate complex health systems, identifying and engaging appropriate professionals across primary, secondary, and tertiary care to ensure timely access to expertise.
You contribute to strategy discussions and Section 47 enquiries, ensuring health risks, needs, and protective factors are clearly articulated and that decisions are proportionate and consistent. The role involves collating, interpreting and synthesising complex health information, presenting clear, evidence-based analysis to inform planning.
You support child protection and contextual safeguarding, including conferences and Risk Outside the Home (ROTH) work, ensuring adolescent health needs—such as mental health, trauma and substance misuse—are fully considered.
Working collaboratively, you build strong relationships across health and partner agencies, address barriers to access, and promote integrated working across early help, child in need, and child protection pathways.
You contribute to learning and improvement through reflective practice, audit and service development, and provide professional leadership where required, including supervision, consultation and workforce development.
You operate within multi-agency and co-located environments.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.
The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- Specialist knowledge of child protection legislation, statutory guidance and safeguarding practice.
- Registered health professional (e.g. nurse, midwife, health visitor) or relevant registered professional (e.g. social worker) with health experience.
desirable
Desirable criteria
- Previous implementation of change.
- Evidence of partnership working to develop integrated service delivery.
- Evidence of working within a multi-agency forum to develop services and drive through change.
- Evidence of ability to represent corporate views to partners and stakeholders.
- Evidence of developing and implementing service development plans.
- Ability to work flexibly across agencies and systems.
essential
Essential criteria
- Willingness to work within multi agency and co located arrangements
- Significant experience of multi-agency safeguarding practice.
- Ability to interpret and present complex health information clearly.
- Excellent communication and relationship building skills
Documents to Download
JD health navigator MACPT (PDF, 276.1KB)
Guidance Notes for Candidates Applying for a job at OHFT (PDF, 432.6KB)
Recruiter Contact Details
Name: Lisa Lord
Title: Head of Safeguarding
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 07900212470