Navigator SC5

Job Category : Admin / Clerical
Location : London Borough of Haringey
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 08:00
End Time : 16:00
Salary: £13.39

This is an exciting opportunity to welcome Guests at Mulberry Junction, the Council’s resource centre for single people aged 18-50 affected by or at risk of homelessness in Haringey. The service provides on-the-spot information and support around housing, health and wellbeing to enable people affected by homelessness to achieve their personal goals.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an innovative service designed in partnership with people affected by homelessness to deliver a service that truly reflects the diversity of Haringey.

We’re looking to recruit an enthusiastic and dedicated Navigator to join the team at Mulberry Junction. As the post-holder you will work 1:1 with guests to identify their needs and make appropriate onward referrals. You will be working in partnership with Homes for Haringey, multidisciplinary teams, specialist staff and external partners to support our guests affected by homelessness to achieve their goals.
The role involves working on a rota along with the rest of the team, Monday to Friday between the hours of 8am- 6pm.
You will:
• Confident working in a 1:1 capacity with people, to help them identify their priorities and goals.
• Possess experience working with adults experiencing substance use, mental health issues and those affected by homelessness
• Focussed on finding solutions to sometimes complex problems and working with other people and organisations to do so
• Be committed to developing services with the people who use them, to reflect the diversity of Haringey.
• Be committed to creating a welcoming, positive and focused environment.
• Confident communicating to a wide range of people with respect.
• Have experience working in a psychologically informed environment or awareness of the approach
• Be solution focused and motivated to tackle the causes and effects of homelessness with a personalised, collaborative, and dynamic approach
• Feel confident working in partnership with a range of internal and external partners

We are particularly interested in hearing from people with personal experience of homelessness, mental health, substance use or criminal justice services and from Black and Minoritised Ethnic communities. We recognise that the LGBTQI+ communities are overrepresented in homelessness services and underrepresented in the work force. We strongly encourage applications from these communities. We are also welcoming applications from Romanian and Polish speakers particularly.
We value passion and commitment over professional experience and encourage applicants to consider the transferable skills they have learnt in all areas of their lives.