Rough Sleeper Navigator

Bexley is an outer London Borough with the best of both worlds, located between the hustle and bustle of London and the Garden of England, Kent. Within the borough we have award winning parks, open spaces and listed heritage sites.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead a small but evolving team working at the London Borough of Bexley looking to make a real difference to the lives of Rough Sleepers in the borough.

The post holder will be required to work in partnership with the coordinator and colleagues from DLUHC to ensure that the Bexley Rough Sleeping Service is in harmony with the mayor’s ending rough sleeping strategy.

To contribute to the review the Council’s provision for Rough Sleepers, and where appropriate contract/SLA monitoring, weekly and monthly returns, and improvement plans as  required to ensure the team provides an excellent service which represents best value for the department.

To be the point of contact and advocate for people who are referred to our services and with service providers and agencies and provide outreach services to Rough Sleepers.

To directly intervene with people who use local services in a one-to-one or group setting to help them to address their problematic alcohol/drug use. 

Encourage and empower service users to improve their general health, including dietary needs, personal hygiene. And to partake in relevant vaccination programs that are available. 

Ensure clients are provided with the correct support to improve their social situation.  This may include assistance with housing, benefits, accessing community services employment and training options as well as budgeting skills.

Engagement with service users to remove any structural and social barriers to accessing treatment and recovery services.

Please refer to the Job Description attached for more information.

This is a 12-month, fixed term role, with the potential for extension, subject to funding and business need. The role is flexible, with home working and some days in the office, according to service requirements.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Oyinda Ogundiran on Oyinda.ogundiran@bexley.gov.uk

We will offer you in return a package that includes a competitive salary, an excellent pension scheme and generous annual leave plus bank holidays. For more information on the benefits package on offer please refer to the Candidate Information document attached.

We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.

For the full list of essential and desirable criteria for this role then please refer to the Person Specification within the Job Description attached.

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)

This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This post is considered by the authority to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers. The council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the JD/Person Specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages.  

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Additional Information

As a disability confident employer Bexley welcomes applications from people with all disabilities, including hidden disabilities and mental health conditions. We will interview any disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made to any part of the recruitment process due to your disability, please contact us on  recruitment@bexley.gov.uk

This role may be available as a development opportunity through secondment for the Council’s existing employees.  The Council’s Secondment Scheme can be found here. If this option is of interest, please contact the recruiting manager.