Women Activity Navigator

Women Activity Navigator
Location: Sheffield
Salary: £24,974 to £27,084
Do you want to support the set up of a brand new programme to help women with complex needs in Sheffield?
Do you have lived experience or an understanding of Severe Multiple Disadvantage and want to make a difference to people facing similar issues?
Do you have an understanding of the issues that women with no fixed abode face?
Our location in Sheffield has an exciting new opportunity to develop a brand-new role. It is a 12-month service which aims to create positive activities for women who are experiencing or recovering from; mental health issues, physical health issues, homelessness and substance misuse.
The aim of the role is to create and deliver a whole new programme consisting of a range of positive activities for women who have had or currently have complex needs. This role will also involve supporting women to progress with issues such as housing, substance misuse, mental health, physical health, domestic violence, sex working and so on.
This role will require some unsociable working hours, with occasional weekend work. This is a great opportunity for someone with knowledge and understanding of the issues facing homeless women to make a difference. We encourage application from people with lived experience of Severe Multiple Disadvantage.
Duties and Responsibilities
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Take a lead on creating a wide range of activities for female service users within the community
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Promoting the service to service users and external agencies
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Supporting and managing a volunteer to help with the activities
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Capturing feedback and data from the activities to measure the impact of the programme
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Take a lead in coordinating an appropriate package of support for the service user.
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Building strong positive relationships and negotiating with other stakeholders to help individuals receive the support, advice and guidance they are entitled to.
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Creatively plan and deliver support for those at risk; empowering service users to contribute to their own support plan to identify realistic, achievable outcomes.
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Conduct face to face contact with service users to proactively overcome barriers to them achieving. This includes initial assessment, offering ongoing support, and developing self-management plans on a range of issues: managing crisis, benefits and finances, mental and physical health, tenancy set up and sustainment, and resolving disputes.
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Liaise closely and facilitate effective communication and cooperation with Housing teams, social care, voluntary, criminal justice, and substance misuse agencies.
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Set up digital multidisciplinary meetings for the benefit of the service user
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Fully document and evidence the work undertaken within 48 hours on several separate platforms.
Essential and Desirable Experience
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Experience of creating and delivering activities for people with complex needs
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Experience of supporting women with complex needs (substance misuse, sex work, mental health, physical health, domestic violence, homelessness)
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Experience of developing trusting relationships based on the need of the individual rather than the needs of the service
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Understanding the barriers facing people with multiple and complex needs
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Experience of working in a trauma informed way with a person centred approach
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Working in a creative and innovative manner to overcome barriers
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Excellent interpersonal skills
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Ability to quickly establish and sustain strong working relationships and build trust across a range of partners and stakeholders
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Experience of managing a budget
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The ability to work on own initiative and to prioritise workload to deliver targets
For more information, please read the job and person specification.
Why Join Us?
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We invest in you and encourage career progression – providing a full induction, e-learning and classroom training, management
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development pathways, fully-funded professional qualifications and more.
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Your wellbeing is important to us. We emphasise wellbeing in all our working environments and employ a Wellbeing Practitioner to support our staff.
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Employee assistance programme, salary sacrifice schemes.
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Stakeholder pension, enhanced maternity and paternity leave and paid sick leave.
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32 days holiday including Bank Holidays – increasing with service.
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Paid DBS and Update Service.
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Loyalty awards and non-contributory life insurance.
Equality and diversity is important to us: we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and cultures and appreciate the variety of experience they provide. As one of Nottingham’s few Disability Confident Leaders, we warmly encourage job applications from people with disabilities.
What we offer: Life Assurance, Pension (up to 4% matched by FHA), Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Benefits, Additional Annual Leave Purchase Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, learning programmes tailored to suit different roles and services, Health Cash Plan.
Framework supports all employees to achieve a better work/life balance. Should you wish us to consider flexible working or job share as part of your application please state this on your application in the supporting statement section.
98% of the workforce in a recent staff survey said they were proud to work for Framework.
Framework is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Registered charity No: (phone number removed).
As a Disability Confident Leader, we warmly encourage job applications from people with disabilities. Framework is committed to offering opportunities to people from diverse communities. If you have specific requirements or adjustments, please let us know if there is anything we can do to support your application.
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