Navigator Officer - Today I Learnt Project

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Temporary Navigator Officer - Today I Learnt Project
Reference no: Lincolnshire BL TCL 361256
Pay Rate: £14.40 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, 08:00 – 17:00
This opening assignment is for 12 months
City: GAINSBOROUGH
Office based role
Full driving licence
Recruitment Vetting
NB: Police Vacancy - only for candidates with a minimum of 5 years continuous UK address history. Please note that this vacancy is subject to a strict security vetting procedure.
The TIL Programme (Today I Learnt) is a 1-year programme which will develop strong and enduring bonds with the community, public, and private sector aimed at jointly tackling youth unemployment and involvement in crime. A Navigator Officer is required to work with those accepted into the TIL cohort to support their long-term desistance from being involved in Crime and Anti-social behaviour, particularly those associated with gangs or drug activity, helping them to make positive life choices thereby reducing offending and protecting the people of Lincolnshire from harm.
To manage a caseload of referred individuals, undertaking structured assessments to identify needs, risk and vulnerability; develop, deliver, source and coordinate planned interventions to meet those identified needs, undertaking ongoing reviews to identify any changes to need and responding accordingly. Work with partner agencies and police colleagues to lead responses to relevant crime and to improve outcomes for children, young adults (15-21 years) involved in or at risk of becoming involved in crime, in order to achieve long term cost savings by reducing demand to the Police and other agencies.
Key responsibilities:

• Build strong relationships with individuals who wish to move away from previous offending or risky lifestyles by being clear, consistent, honest, supportive, and fair. To support those who genuinely wish to change by addressing each individual offending through nationally recognised pathways and personal vulnerabilities and guiding them around the obstacles they face.
• Explain the options that each cohort member has and enable them to make their own choices to help them towards the destination that they have identified.
• Have a detailed knowledge of the interventions available to TIL and proactively manage, source, direct and deliver them for a caseload that presents with needs and is willing to engage.
• Undertake structured assessments, in conjunction other partners and service providers where appropriate, for those in your allocated caseload to identify needs, risk of vulnerabilities and risk of harm.
• Ensure robust ongoing case management is in place; ensuring all assessments, plans, interventions and reviews are recorded in a timely and accurate manner to demonstrate activity and outcomes and enable agencies to be assured that risk is managed.
• Use innate empathy, compassion understanding and the officers own experience to influence offender behaviour.
• Monitor and review progress of cases, using professional judgement to identify changes in need, risk or vulnerability, taking action to update other police teams or partners as required in order to manage any risk.
• Represent the Force at relevant multi-agency forums. Navigators will share information with other departments/ agencies in accordance with guidelines, and will action nominations from tasking, reporting back to the same within specified timescales.
• Gather information and intelligence in support of local or Force wide functions, utilising appropriate Force systems to record information and intelligence, update crimes and implement any safeguarding procedures where needed. This includes monitoring, reporting and addressing community tensions arising from local or national incidents and intelligence.

NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.
To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF
If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:

• Full driving licence.

Experience:

• Have a good understanding of the working practices of the Police Service, Youth Offending Service and Children's Services desirable.
• Experience of working with various agencies in a partnership arena desirable.
• Experience of working with young people and adults with multiple problems and with families who find it difficult to engage with services desirable.
• Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation

Knowledge:

• An understanding of Crime and ASB, and the causal factors.
• A sound understanding of Force priorities in relation to keeping people safe from harm.
• A working knowledge of preventative activity across a wide range of partners.

Skills & Abilities:

• Problem-solving skills and the ability to identify issues that require intervention.
• Ability to identify needs, risk of vulnerabilities and risk of harm and to take appropriate action to ensure all safeguarding measures are in place.
• An excellent communicator and have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to form and maintain good relationships with offenders, colleagues and partner agencies.
• Ability to demonstrate a level of awareness of equality and diversity issues appropriate to this role.
• Prepared to work flexibly and advocate on behalf of families, children, young people and vulnerable adults.
• Open minded to alternative and radically different approaches to reduce crime and harm.
• A non-judgemental attitude or behaviour.
• Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).

***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.
Full driving licence, access to a vehicle or access to means of mobility support.
Recruitment Vetting
SC Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please