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About the Role
As a Reconnections Officer, you will play a vital role in helping individuals experiencing rough sleeping take meaningful steps towards a safer and more stable future. You will build trusted relationships, develop personalized plans, and support sustainable moves off the streets into accommodation. This role involves collaborating with outreach, homelessness, and support services across Camden, using a creative and person-centred approach to overcome barriers and achieve positive outcomes. You will advocate for residents, coordinate support across agencies, and help ensure everyone has the opportunity to rebuild their lives with dignity and hope.
Responsibilities
- Help people experiencing rough sleeping take meaningful steps towards a safer and more stable future.
- Build trusted relationships with individuals facing multiple disadvantages.
- Develop personalized plans to support sustainable moves off the streets and into accommodation.
- Collaborate closely with outreach, homelessness, and support services across Camden.
- Use a creative and person-centred approach to overcome barriers and achieve positive outcomes.
- Advocate for residents.
- Coordinate support across agencies.
- Help ensure everyone has the opportunity to rebuild their lives and move forward with dignity and hope.
Requirements
- Experience of working in a person-centred way.
- Experience building trust with vulnerable adults.
- Experience helping vulnerable adults navigate complex challenges to achieve positive and lasting outcomes.
- Strong understanding of homelessness, housing options, and the wider support landscape.
- Confident working collaboratively with a range of statutory and voluntary sector partners.
- Ability to advocate on behalf of clients.
- Ability to coordinate support that meets individual needs.
- Ability to work independently while managing a varied caseload.
- Ability to make sound decisions in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to balance competing priorities effectively.
- Skilled at assessing and managing risk.
- Ability to maintain professional boundaries.
- Ability to apply trauma-informed, culturally aware, and gender-responsive approaches in practice.
- Resilience, creativity, and determination to find solutions.
- Commitment to safeguarding, partnership working, and handling sensitive information responsibly and in line with data protection requirements.
- This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and will require an Enhanced DBS.
Skills
- Person-centred approach
- Building trust
- Navigating complex challenges
- Collaboration
- Advocacy
- Coordination of support
- Risk assessment and management
- Professional boundaries
- Trauma-informed approaches
- Culturally aware approaches
- Gender-responsive approaches
- Resilience
- Creativity
- Determination
- Safeguarding
- Partnership working
- Handling sensitive information
- Data protection
Location
- 5 Pancras Square, N1C 3AG
Work Type
- Full Time
- Fixed Term
Salary/Compensations
- £47,525 - £54,056
Benefits
- Flexible working
- 27 days annual leave (+ bank holidays)
- Family leave
- Loan schemes
- Access to staff networks
- Pensions scheme
About the Company
- Camden is changing on the inside to make life better for everyone. Our residents and communities are at the heart of everything we do. We’re home to the most important conversations happening today and we’re making radical social change a reality, so that nobody gets left behind.
Equal Opportunity
- We welcome applications from all parts of our community, and particularly encourage people from Black, Asian and Other Ethnic Heritage communities, LGBTQ+ people, disabled and neurodiverse people, survivors of domestic abuse, and those from lower socio-economic backgrounds or with care experience.
- We know that different voices and perspectives make us stronger, and we are committed to providing the support, adjustments and flexibility people need to succeed.
- We are committed to making our recruitment process barrier-free and accessible for everyone. If you need us to do something differently during the application, interview or assessment process, just let us know and we will support you.
- Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden’s commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.