Street Navigator

Hours: 35 per week Contract: Permanent Location: Birmingham Caseload: 8 10 clients Job reference number: 1713 At Cranstoun, we are always in search of talented and experienced individuals to join our team. The Birmingham Street Navigator Service works with Birmingham citizens (single adults and/or couples 25 years old or above) with accommodation that are outdoors engaging in street activity e.g. rough sleeping, begging, street drinking/drug using and other social activities. Street Navigators will offer intensive, wraparound support to help citizens back into their accommodation, reducing their level of street-based activity and associated anti-social behaviour, with the overall aim of reintegrating citizens into their local communities and reducing their reliance on the streets. Street Navigators will recognise that citizens may present with a range of complexities and could be living with traumas that make engagement with traditional and mainstream services difficult. This requires Street Navigators to provide a trauma-informed, person-centred and relational approach to engagement and the ongoing support offer to the citizen as a means of developing trust and confidence with the service, and to ensure short- and longer-term needs are met. Street Navigators will work in a multi-agency network including alongside outreach services, Community Safety teams, local BID teams, commissioned/none-commissioned accommodation providers, West Midlands Police and British ..... full job details .....