Camden and Islington Navigator - Homelessness

Single Homeless Project is a London-wide charity. Our vision is of a society where everyone has a place to call home and the chance to live a fulfilling life.

We help single Londoners by preventing homelessness, providing support and accommodation, promoting wellbeing, enhancing opportunity, and being a voice for change. From supporting people in crisis to helping people take the final steps towards independence and employment, we make a difference to 10,000 lives every year across all 32 boroughs.

Navigators provide intensive support for people who are rough sleeping with complex needs, advocating & enabling them to access appropriate services, including housing. Your role will be to work in multi-agency settings in Camden or Islington, working in partnership with existing delivery structures, local networks.

As a Navigator, you will carry a caseload of up to 8-12 rough sleeping people with multiple needs and will provide end to end holistic, coordinated support for each person from first contact in a street setting through to them achieving a more settled and fulfilled lifestyle. You will provide personalised solutions which demonstrate innovation, creativity as well as iterative learning. The approach taken with clients will be psychologically informed, incorporating an understanding of Personality Disorder, complex trauma, and addiction.

Outcomes of the role include developing positive and sustained relationships of trust with clients and supporting them to engage with the support they need: This will include access to housing, access to support services for mental health and substance use and access to services for those involved in the criminal justice system as well as enabling them to address any other issues they may have.

We are looking for someone who has:

Experience and understanding of the provision of services to rough sleepers experiencing multiple disadvantage who are rough sleeping or at risk of rough sleeping
Experience of effective liaison with social, health, women s services housing and criminal justice agencies
An understanding of the importance of professional integrity in relationships with service users, peers and other relevant professionals
The ability to find ways to engage and work with clients who may have a low level of interaction with and suspicion of services and make relationships with people who find it difficult to engage

Closing date: 3rd August 2022 (at Midnight)

Interviews to be held on: 10 & 11th August 2022

This post will require an Enhanced DBS check to be processed for the successful applicant

Our attractive benefits package includes:

A salary increase after successfully completing six month's probationary period
A 37.5 hour working week including flexible working hours (core hours are 10am - 4pm) in non-accommodation services
25 days annual leave, increasing annually to the maximum 30 days (plus paid Bank Holidays),
A contributory pension scheme: Single Homeless Project will contribute the equivalent of 5% of your annual salary
Staff Health Cash Plan and discounts scheme
Comprehensive and integrated training programme designed specifically to develop the skills and knowledge involved in our work

Single Homeless Project is actively committed to equal opportunities and the promotion of diversity and inclusion, in all of our services and workplaces. We are also Disability Confident Committed and are IIP Silver accredited.