Homeless Prevention Coordinator - Coventry

St Basils

Coventry, UK

Published: Published 3 months ago

Homelessness

CLOSING DATE: Friday 21st February 2025

Job Title: Homeless Prevention Coordinator

Reports to: Youth Hub Team Leader

Salary: Scale SO1, Points 29-31, £29,090 - £31,014 per annum, pro rata

Hours of work: Full Time (37.5 hours per week)

Key Responsibilities:

Coordination of Assessment, Case Management and Statutory Decisions

To ensure that comprehensive and detailed assessments of housing, support needs and risks are undertaken, to ensure the prevention of homelessness, where safe to do so.
To ensure that investigations are undertaken into housing and personal history to ascertain eligibility, priority need and local connection, on behalf of the local authority.
To ensure that relevant background checks are undertaken to assist in the development of a robust risk management plan.
To ensure weekly case reviews with Homeless Prevention Workers and Leader Workers are undertaken to monitor cases and provide legislative guidance
To ensure monthly audits are completed with Homeless Prevention Workers to achieve contract outcomes
To monitor cases to establish the measures of the 5 homelessness tests are being met for all duties accepted
To ensure that high quality homelessness and housing options are provided to young people, ensuring that their needs and expectations are managed.
To build and maintain effective and professional working relationships with internal and external partners/agencies.
To ensure that a holistic multi-agency response is provided to young people's housing and support needs, where required.
To ensure that young people are:
Referred on and signposted appropriately to relevant services, e.g. Floating Support or specialist agencies.
Engaging with the actions of their PHP
Provided with relevant support (56 day duty), leading to the prevention or relief of homelessness
To ensure that home visits and accompanying young people to appointments are appropriate and undertaken in line with agreed lone working procedures.
To ensure that interventions are planned, implemented, reviewed and evaluated to ensure positive outcomes for young people and their families, in line with prevention and/or relief pathway duties.
Ensure fair allocation of cases in line with service criteria and regular assessment/ reviews of individual capacity/ performance.
Maintain partnerships with key agencies including voluntary sector, local authorities and Private companies.
Contribute to the development and design of the service to meet the identified needs of young people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
Ensure the best possible outcomes for young people including homeless prevention through support and mediation, access to statutory services and access to accommodation.

Team Management Duties

Support teams to provide high quality support services that promote choice and independence, actively engaging young people in making decisions about their life.
Development of St Basil's staff, through effective line management and ensuring compliance with standards, contractual and regulatory requirements, best practice and St Basils' policies and procedures.
Measuring the performance of the Service by setting and achieving targets and producing statistical reports, where required.
Maintain agreed standards of joint working for all aspects of the service provided.
Ensure data collection requirements of the project are maintained. Following agreed procedures for the review process incl. effective tracking and monitoring of services.
Ensure staffing resources meet contractual requirements and that risks and trends are monitored and managed in a timely way with appropriate approvals secured and necessary adjustments made.
To attend and actively contribute to key meetings i.e. MARAC, Child Protection Meetings, Allocations meetings, Looked After Child Reviews, MASE/MACE Conference, Multi-agency Meetings, Council led Monthly monitoring meetings, Team Meetings, Case review.
To ensure that all records are maintained accurately and professionally, alongside ensuring that all internal and external data and monitoring systems are kept up to date at all times.
To ensure that a duty system is operated at the Youth Hub.
Contribute to reporting to Commissioners and key stakeholders regarding service performance.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Essential:

Further training - Housing & Business Management, Personnel, Care & Support Work (e.g. NVQ Level 5)
Desirable:

Degree/ HNC
Relevant Professional - CQSW, Youth & Comm. DMS, Inst. Of Hsg. Care & Housing.

ROLE EXPERIENCE:

Essential:

Experience with young people in one or more of the following -
Youth Homelessness, Management, Youth Work, Probation, Residential or Community Work, Education or Training

Desirable:

Experience of working with young people with complex needs
Experience of undertaking statutory decision making

KNOWLEDGE

Essential:

Ability to use initiative and maintain Confidentiality
Ability to accept delegated responsibility
Housing Rights, Welfare Reform Knowledge
Relevant knowledge relating to homelessness i.e. Homeless Reduction Act 2017
Knowledge of Children's Act, i.e. Section 17, 20 and 47.
Knowledge of and commitment to E.O.P/Anti-Discriminatory practice

Desirable:

Housing Benefit/Rent System
Immigration law/EU Rights
Understanding of Statutory duties in Housing and/or Children's Services

At St Basils, we are dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect our staff to create an environment and culture that promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion and advocate for anti-discriminatory practices and behaviours.

Locations Coventry