Community Navigators

Riverside Group ,
London, Greater London
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" Riverside have a new opportunity for a Community Navigator, working full time Monday to Friday 37.5 hours per week, on a permanent basis. You will earn £21,451.00 per year. 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. Day to day Your key responsibilities as a Community Navigator will include: • Provide a housing related support service to clients in their own home. • Delivering a 'best practice' support service, appropriate to clients' needs. • Ensuring the delivery of individual personalised support packages, reflective of different client needs, including culture and diversity issues. • Supporting clients with day-to-day tenancy issues, payment of rent and liaising with landlords etc. • Knowledge of 'best practice' in both crisis intervention and planned support working. • Undertaking referrals and assessments of potential clients, working with them to identify the most appropriate housing solution for their needs. Ensuring clients have access to relevant external support services. For a deeper understanding of your responsibilities, take a look at the job description linked below. 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. Click on the job description linked below to see a full list of our essential requirements. What's in it for you? In return for your hard work and dedication, we offer you: • Competitive Pay • 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays) • Access to ongoing personal career development opportunities through Learning Zone • Riverside Rewards scheme and app, providing valuable access to discounted benefits including high street and online savings • Tax-free bikes and car loan scheme • Eye tests, glasses and lenses 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 150+ local authorities in England and Scotland and housing 90,000+ 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. " Education: Not Specified Employment Type: Permanent

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