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Specialist Navigator
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Experience Required:
1-3years
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Posted:
13 October 2026 (Yesterday)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
10 January 2027
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Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
3 months contract with a local authority
Umbrella Pay Rate: 30.40 per hour umbrella
Summary
- The VAWG Navigator is a crucial role within a local authority dedicated to providing intensive trauma-informed and survivor-centred support to women facing violence against women and girls (VAWG) along with multiple disadvantages such as homelessness mental or physical health issues substance misuse poverty offending behaviour and social exclusion. This position is a 3-month contract with a pay rate of 30.40 per hour under an umbrella arrangement. The role involves working 21 hours per week spread over three days with a combination of community outreach remote and office work based in 5 Pancras Square London Camden. The VAWG Navigator plays a vital role in enhancing the safety wellbeing and independence of survivors advocating for them across various systems and facilitating their long-term recovery.
Responsibilities
- Manage a small intensive caseload of survivors experiencing VAWG and multiple disadvantages.
- Build trusted strengths-based relationships with survivors through consistent and trauma-informed engagement.
- Deliver person-centred support tailored to individual needs goals and circumstances.
- Conduct comprehensive risk assessments and develop safety and support plans.
- Provide crisis intervention and ongoing practical and emotional support.
- Support survivors to increase safety wellbeing independence and long-term recovery.
- Undertake assertive outreach across the borough to engage survivors in community settings.
- Advocate on behalf of survivors with statutory and voluntary agencies.
- Accompany survivors to appointments meetings and court hearings where appropriate.
- Reduce barriers to accessing specialist VAWG and wider support services.
- Support survivors in navigating housing health welfare legal and criminal justice systems.
Requirements:
- Experience of providing frontline support to individuals affected by domestic abuse sexual violence or other forms of gender-based violence.
- Experience supporting people experiencing multiple disadvantages including mental health challenges substance misuse homelessness or complex needs.
- Experience conducting outreach work and engaging vulnerable or hard-to-reach individuals.
- Relevant qualification in Social Work Community Work Counselling Health & Social Care Criminology Psychology Youth Work Domestic Abuse Practice or equivalent professional experience.
- Enhanced DBS required.
Additional Information
- Working hours: 21 hours per week.
- Location: 5 Pancras Square London Camden N1C 4AG United Kingdom.
- Work pattern: 3 days per week a mixture of outreaching in the community to service-users remote and office.
- Bi-weekly payment schedule.
- The role closes on 16th October 2026 apply ASAP.
Required Skills:
The VAWG Navigator will provide intensive trauma-informed survivor-centred support to women experiencing violence against women and girls (VAWG) alongside multiple disadvantages such as homelessness mental or physical ill-health substance misuse poverty offending behaviour and social exclusion.
Required Education:
The VAWG Navigator will provide intensive trauma-informed survivor-centred support to women experiencing violence against women and girls (VAWG) alongside multiple disadvantages such as homelessness mental or physical ill-health substance misuse poverty offending behaviour and social exclusion.
