Support Navigator - Waltham Forest

£26,025 - £29,519 per annum

37.5 hours pw

Our innovative new service in Waltham Forest is looking for dynamic, highly motivated, individuals to work to support clients effectively across the spectrum of housing issues, providing high quality interventions in varying forms, including advice to other professionals and intensive casework to solve an individual’s presenting housing need.

This position is at the cutting edge of current homelessness practice, working to address housing issues from a multitude of angles and enabling a progressive manner in which to help support individuals through their housing crisis and beyond to ensure they do not suffer the same situation again.

Working with Rough Sleepers, those in housing crisis and those requiring individualised support to increase their wellbeing you will need to think creatively, be able to plan effective, fast paced, interventions and understand the role an individual plays in their own development. You will have experience of working with individuals who are homeless/at risk, a sound understanding of case management and strong, flexible, communication skills.

You will be liaising with various stakeholders, including the local authority, local substance misuse services and local healthcare providers. You will need to demonstrate a sound understanding of competing aims, and a communicative ability to help unite services in offering support for vulnerable individuals within the borough. The ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency team is required, as is the ability to form effective and professional relationships with external agencies.

In order to better support you within the role there is a commitment to ensuring flexible working where possible, a pension scheme and learning opportunities which are tailored to your interests and aims.

Closing Date: 10am, Monday 8 January

Interview and Assessment date: tbc

Please be advised that all appointments will be made on St Mungo’s current standard Terms and Conditions (T&Cs); this also applies to any internal candidates.

At St Mungo’s, equality, diversity and inclusion are central to the organisation's values and how we work. We are in the top 50 of Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index 2017, we are also proud to have been awarded BITC 2017 Race Equality Award and we are a Disability Confident Employer. To ensure that our workforce reflects the diversity of our clients as well as the communities that we live and work within, we encourage and welcome applications from all sections of the community.