Specialist Navigator

Temporary Contract

Job Details

Client: Camden Council
Service Area: VAWG Navigator Team / Integrated Youth Service
Hours: 21 hours per week
Start Date: 26 October 2026
End Date: 17 January 2027
Duration: 12 weeks
Number of Roles: 1

Working Pattern

3 days per week.
Mixture of community outreach, remote working and office-based working.
Minimum 1 day per week in the Kings Cross office.

Location

5 Pancras Square
London
Camden
N1C 4AG

Pay

PAYE Rate: £23.29 per hour

Job Overview

Camden Council is seeking a Specialist Navigator to provide intensive, trauma-informed and flexible support to women and survivors experiencing VAWG, multiple disadvantages and complex barriers to support.

The role will involve holding a small intensive caseload, providing wraparound support, carrying out outreach and helping survivors access safety, accommodation, services and recovery support.

Important – Please Read Carefully

This is a VAWG / domestic abuse / multiple disadvantage navigator role.

Candidates should have frontline support experience with survivors of abuse and people facing complex needs such as homelessness, mental health, substance misuse, poverty, debt or criminal justice involvement.

The role is community based and will involve extensive outreach across Camden.

Key Responsibilities

Provide VAWG support
Support survivors of abuse
Hold an intensive caseload
Provide wraparound support
Carry out outreach
Build trusted relationships
Complete safety planning
Complete risk reduction
Provide crisis support
Support housing issues
Support homelessness issues
Support benefits access
Support budgeting
Support confidence building
Support training access
Support education access
Support employment access
Make onward referrals
Accompany survivors to appointments
Support court attendance
Work with partner agencies
Coordinate cases
Reduce isolation
Support survivor goals
Maintain professional partnerships

Essential Experience & Skills

VAWG support
Domestic abuse support
Gender-based violence support
Frontline support
Multiple disadvantage
Outreach work
Trauma-informed practice
Strengths-based support
Safety planning
Risk assessment
Crisis intervention
Support planning
Homelessness awareness
Mental health awareness
Substance misuse awareness
Advocacy
Multi-agency working
Partnership working
Casework
Enhanced DBS eligibility

Desirable

DA Navigator experience
IDVA experience
VAWG Navigator experience
Hostel outreach
Court support
Probation or prison liaison
Camden service knowledge
Systems change work
Voluntary sector experience
Community support services

Additional Information

The successful candidate is expected to start as soon as possible.

This is a 3-day-per-week role with outreach, remote and office-based working.

The candidate must be able to attend the Kings Cross office at least 1 day per week.

Interview will be held online by video call.

Target interview date is 19 October 2026.

Candidate submission deadline is 16 October 2026.

Maximum CVs per agency: 3.

Disclaimer

On applying for this vacancy, you agree that your personal details will be passed onto our client for their consideration of your suitability for the role.

I acknowledge that it is my responsibility to notify Fix Space Recruitment Limited of any hirer who I do not want my details to be passed onto.

Job Reference: OR118581

Screening Questions

Do you have frontline experience supporting people experiencing VAWG, domestic abuse, gender-based violence, sexual violence or similar abuse-related needs?
Do you have experience supporting clients with multiple disadvantages, such as mental health needs, substance misuse, homelessness, poverty, debt, poor housing, discrimination, offending or complex trauma?
Have you carried out outreach work, assertive outreach or community-based support to make services accessible to vulnerable people who may struggle to engage?
Do you have experience completing safety planning, support planning, risk assessment, risk reduction or crisis-intervention support with survivors or vulnerable clients?
Can you build strong, trusted, trauma-informed and strengths-based relationships with survivors while working with a small intensive caseload?
Do you have experience working with partner agencies such as housing, social services, health services, substance misuse services, courts, police, probation, prisons or voluntary sector providers?
Are you able to work 21 hours per week across community outreach, remote working and office working, including at least 1 day per week in the Kings Cross office?
Can you complete Enhanced DBS, Criminal Convictions Declaration, Health Declaration, Training Records and 3 years references/work history checks?

Skills: VAWG, Domestic Abuse, Outreach, Trauma Informed Support, Safeguarding, Risk Assessment, Safety Planning, Multiple Disadvantage, Casework, Advocacy

Specialist Navigator