Homeless Navigator

**Company Description** Barnabus Manchester is a Christian homeless charity that has been supporting people experiencing homelessness in Manchester for over 25 years. The organization provides a wide range of services, including help with accommodation, rehabilitation, practical support, healthcare, skills training, and links to employment opportunities. Barnabus also offers creative activities, volunteering opportunities, and peer mentoring to build confidence, skills, and wellbeing. The team is committed to supporting individuals as they work toward new, positive futures and helping them realize their hopes and dreams. **Role Description** The Homelessness Navigator supports people who have been street homeless for many years and have found it hard to settle into any form of accommodation. Services users will receive specialist support to help them adjust and settle into any offers of accommodation. Working in different locations, in a multidisciplinary team, the Homeless Navigator helps people to develop their confidence, life skills and resilience to live independently. The successful candidate will demonstrate a person-centred, trauma-informed approach, as well as knowledge in navigating the homeless system. You will enjoy working as part of a team and will work to the high support standards that we expect at Barnabus. **Qualifications** GCSEs or NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care Knowledge of the homelessness system Previous experience of working with people experiencing homelessness Experience of lone working Understanding harm reduction Understanding of safeguarding Full driving licence and access to a vehicle for driving to appointments around Manchester Knowledge of psychologically informed environments Skills & Attributes Good verbal communication and personal/social skills Good written English. Emails between organisations are an essential part of our working practice. Good organisational skills, managing a varied workload with different teams IT skills, including using email, Google, Word and Excel Building positive relationships with the people you support and colleagues Able to work flexibly in a rapidly changing environment Able to work with confidential information Able to carry out dynamic risk assessments when lone working Languages an advantage, especially Arabic/African * Previous experience of being homeless an advantage