Community Navigator - Ashford
- Recruiter
- Confidential
- Location
- Ashford
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 15 Sep 2020
- Closes
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sectors
- Engineering, Defence
- Contract Type
- Temporary
- Hours
- Full Time
Community Navigator - Ashford
Pay: GBP13ph umbrella
Hours: 37.5 a week
Duration: 3 month initially
Sector:Public
Scope; Inside IR-35
*DBS needed*
My client is looking for someone to help In response to the Covid-19 pandemic has shown that my client can make a massive impact on supporting rough sleepers to get off the streets and into accommodation. The challenge before us is to ensure that this effort is not wasted and that people can leave rough sleeping behind for good.
As a Community Navigator you will be responsible for delivering, strengths-based support packages to people with a history of rough sleeping in Ashford, Kent. You will be supporting and empowering some of the most complex, vulnerable people in society to take the next step towards living independently in their new accommodation. You will achieve this by:
• Ensuring people have access to the right support networks e.g. drug/alcohol services, healthcare etc.
• Multi-agency working with Ashford Borough Council's Rough Sleeper Co-Ordinator and other key supporting agencies.
• Creating links to the local community through (for example) volunteering, social activities, wellbeing activities etc.
• Supporting people to access education, training and employment opportunities.
• Delivering personalised support packages helping people to identify their own strength, hopes and aspirations and working with people to realise them.
• Assisting clients with day-to-day tenancy issues such as payment of rent and liaising with landlords and assisting with benefit claims.
You will play an integral role as part of a local taskforce, consisting of Rough Sleeper outreach and support services and Ashford Borough Council's Rough Sleeper Co-Ordinator. You will work collaboratively and creatively with clients to ensure their route off the streets and into accommodation is both seamless and sustainable.
If you have experience of dealing with Rough Sleepers please do apply.
Thank you
Pay: GBP13ph umbrella
Hours: 37.5 a week
Duration: 3 month initially
Sector:Public
Scope; Inside IR-35
*DBS needed*
My client is looking for someone to help In response to the Covid-19 pandemic has shown that my client can make a massive impact on supporting rough sleepers to get off the streets and into accommodation. The challenge before us is to ensure that this effort is not wasted and that people can leave rough sleeping behind for good.
As a Community Navigator you will be responsible for delivering, strengths-based support packages to people with a history of rough sleeping in Ashford, Kent. You will be supporting and empowering some of the most complex, vulnerable people in society to take the next step towards living independently in their new accommodation. You will achieve this by:
• Ensuring people have access to the right support networks e.g. drug/alcohol services, healthcare etc.
• Multi-agency working with Ashford Borough Council's Rough Sleeper Co-Ordinator and other key supporting agencies.
• Creating links to the local community through (for example) volunteering, social activities, wellbeing activities etc.
• Supporting people to access education, training and employment opportunities.
• Delivering personalised support packages helping people to identify their own strength, hopes and aspirations and working with people to realise them.
• Assisting clients with day-to-day tenancy issues such as payment of rent and liaising with landlords and assisting with benefit claims.
You will play an integral role as part of a local taskforce, consisting of Rough Sleeper outreach and support services and Ashford Borough Council's Rough Sleeper Co-Ordinator. You will work collaboratively and creatively with clients to ensure their route off the streets and into accommodation is both seamless and sustainable.
If you have experience of dealing with Rough Sleepers please do apply.
Thank you