Community Navigators

Riverside ,
London, Greater London
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Riverside are looking to recruit 3 Full time Community Navigators in Hackney working 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday. The role requires frequent travel around the Hackney area. Who you'll be helping As a community navigator you will be responsible for the delivery of individual, positive outcome focused support packages to clients of Riverside's community based service in Hackney supporting and empowering our clients to live independently in their own homes, assisting with education, training and employment opportunities. You will deliver personalised support packages helping clients to set and meet goals and assisting clients with day-to-day tenancy issues such as payment of rent and liaising with landlords and assisting with benefit claims. Does this describe you? You are a motivated, proactive individual with excellent communication skills. You have experience of working with a vulnerable client groups and delivering support in a either housing or social care. You also have demonstrable basic IT Skills and are proficient in Microsoft packages. What's in it for you? In return for your hard work and dedication, we offer you: • Access to ongoing personal career development opportunities through Learning Zone • 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays) • Family friendly benefits providing enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and adoption • Tax-free bikes and car loan scheme • Eye tests, glasses and lenses • Riverside Rewards scheme and app, providing valuable access to discounted benefits including high street and online savings Who are Riverside? We are one of the UK's leading social housing and regeneration organisations. We are a group of not-for-profit and commercial companies with a charitable housing association at our core. Operating across 160 local authorities in England and Scotland and housing 100,000+ people, we are fully committed to improving the lives of thousands of individuals and families. We seek to transform lives and revitalise neighbourhoods. Is Riverside for you? We want you to feel empowered and that your voice is truly heard. Being a company focused on people, we treat our customers with this same respect. We trust you to protect our customers, our people and our business and we see outstanding worth in those with the courage to take responsibility, innovate and find solutions. Your focus on performance and ambition is rewarded with development opportunities. With Riverside, you can achieve. If you're thinking of joining us as a Community Navigator, we'd love to hear from you. We encourage applicants from all sections of the community so that we can truly reflect the neighbourhoods in which we work Please note: Riverside are putting in measures to protect candidates and our colleagues from Covid-19. Whilst we are still continuing to recruit for this position and other roles in the organisation we will be implementing virtual interviews

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