Housing Navigator

Housing Navigator – The heath, Mansfield, NG18 3QE, Temp until 13th January, 37HRS, Grade 3AS, £27,938 , FTE

Temp until 13th January with possibility to become a permanent role

Main Job Purpose
To provide creative and flexible support to meet the needs of rough sleepers to exit the street and street based lifestyles, and those at risk of rough sleeping into successful sustained resettlement.

Main Job Duties and Responsibilities

Service Delivery
The aim of the Rough Sleeping Navigators Service is to assist individuals who are new, entrenched, return, repeat or housed rough sleepers into assessment, support and accommodation.

Casework Management
To be responsible and accountable for providing advice, support, motivation, crisis intervention and future planning, appropriate to the expressed needs of beneficiaries with the aim of ensuring that beneficiaries live sustainably and independently is secure accommodation.

To be responsible and accountable for supporting a defined number of rough sleepers in Nottingham City who have complex and low level needs, enabling them to exit rough sleeping into safe, secure accommodation through a range of activity including:

• swift identification of people sleeping on the streets
• information gathering for referral for further assessment
• flexible and persistent contact and communication to maximise engagement
• coordination of wraparound support from specialist services to ensure that wider needs are met and are not barriers to accepting offers of support and utilising offers of accommodation
• retaining a consistent single point of contact for individual and services until rehousing is achieved

Organisational Responsibilities
To be responsible and accountable for contributing to the successful delivery of Framework's services for vulnerable and homeless people.

Why Join Us?

• We invest in you and encourage career progression – providing a full induction, e-learning and classroom training, management development pathways, fully-funded professional qualifications and more.
• Your wellbeing is important to us. We emphasise wellbeing in all our working environments and employ a Wellbeing Practitioner to support our staff.
• Employee assistance programme, salary sacrifice schemes.
• Stakeholder pension, enhanced maternity and paternity leave and paid sick leave.
• 32 days holiday including Bank Holidays – increasing with service.
• Paid DBS and Update Service.
• Loyalty awards and non-contributory life insurance.
• Equality and diversity is important to us: we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and cultures, and appreciate the variety of experience they provide. As one of Nottingham's few Disability Confident Leaders, we warmly encourage job applications from people with disabilities.
• Framework is incredibly proud to hold Investors in People (IIP) Gold accreditation. This accreditation recognises our continued commitment to creating a workplace where people feel valued, supported, and empowered to grow.

Framework supports all employees to achieve a better work/life balance. Should you wish us to consider flexible working or job share as part of your application please state this on your application in the supporting statement section.

98% of the workforce in a recent staff survey said they were proud to work for Framework.

Framework is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Registered charity No: .

As a Disability Confident employer, we warmly encourage job applications from people with disabilities. Framework is committed to offering opportunities to people from diverse communities. If you have specific requirements or adjustments, please let us know if there is anything we can do to support your application.

As an organisation we do not offer sponsorship for overseas candidates as our roles do not come under the Shortage Occupancy List (SOL) for the scheme. Any non-UK citizen who wishes to apply for a role within Framework would need to be able to provide valid RTW in the UK without the need for support from us.

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