Support Worker – Hackney; Refugee, Migrant and Asylum Seeker Service

About the role

This role sits within the Welcome Hackney (Refugee, Migrant and Asylum Seeker) Service and will focus on supporting Afghan families resettled to the borough. The role is ideally suited to candidates who can speak Dari or Pashto and who have lived experience of seeking sanctuary and/or resettlement.

It would be highly desirable if you could speak any of the following languages:
Dari, Pashto, Tigrinya, Arabic.

• Excellent communication skills – ability to build trust with refugees who have experienced trauma and to advocate with agencies on their behalf.
• Experience of working with refugees, asylum seekers or migrants (people with lived experience are particularly welcome).
• Experience of providing advice, guidance and advocacy regarding rights and entitlements, particularly related to housing and benefits.
• Solutions‑focused with a can‑do approach, proactively and independently finding solutions to barriers.

Hackney Council works to eradicate discrimination on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation. We also recognise that people can be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will also work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled people, as this group is currently under‑represented in our workforce.