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CLOSING DATE: Tuesday 22nd July 2025 Job Title: Homeless Prevention Worker Reports to: Homeless Prevention Coordinator Salary: Scale 6, Points 26-28, £26,229 - £27,982 per annum, pro rata Hours of work: Full Time (37.5 hours per week) Key Responsibilities: ASSESSMENT/SUPPORT <ul> <li>To provide good quality information, advice &amp; signposting where required</li> </ul><ul> <li>To process and triage referrals - agency and self-referrals via telephone, electronic and walk-ins.</li> </ul><ul> <li>To undertake comprehensive and detailed assessments of housing and support needs and risks, to ensure the prevention of homelessness, where safe to do so.</li> </ul><ul> <li>To undertake investigations into housing and personal history to ascertain eligibility, priority need and local connection, on behalf of the local authority.</li> </ul><ul> <li>To ensure relevant background checks are undertaken to assist in the development of a robust risk management plan.</li> </ul><ul> <li>To ensure the proper process is followed to obtain GDPR, Declaration &amp; Consent from young people</li> </ul><ul> <li>To maintain accurate and professional electronic case records, ensuring internal and external data and monitoring systems are kept up to date at all times.</li> </ul><ul> <li>To provide high quality homelessness and housing options to young people, ensuring that their needs are met and expectations managed.</li> </ul><ul> <li>To make and issue decisions in line with legislation under the Housing Act 1996 and the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017.</li> </ul><ul> <li>To present cases where a homelessness main duty is owed under the relief pathway in a timely manner to the local authority.</li> </ul><ul> <li>To manage a case load of young people through the prevention and/or relief pathways.</li> </ul><ul> <li>To build and maintain effective and professional working relationships with internal and external partners/agencies.</li> </ul><ul> <li>To provide a holistic multi agency response to young people's housing and support needs.</li> </ul><ul> <li>To develop and maintain detailed Personalized Housing Plans (PHP) to ensure young people are:</li> </ul><ul> <li>referred on and signposted appropriately to relevant services e.g. Floating Support, specialist agencies</li> </ul><ul> <li>engaging with the actions of their PHP</li> </ul><ul> <li>provided with the relevant support (56 day duty), leading to the prevention or relief of homelessness</li> </ul><ul> <li>To operate within a duty system at the Youth Hub.</li> </ul>HOME VISIT &amp; MEDIATION <ul> <li>To undertake mediation sessions with young people and their excluders to improve relationships and prevent homelessness incl. initial meetings and family sessions.</li> <li>To utilize agreed assessment tools to identify the needs of a young person and their families, so that plans made are shared, evidence based and agreed to by all.</li> <li>To undertake home visits and accompany young people to appointments, where appropriate.</li> <li>To plan, implement, review and evaluate interventions to ensure positive outcomes for young people and their families, in line with prevention and/or relief pathway duties.</li> </ul>ADVOCACY <ul> <li>To promote young people's comprehension of assessment and application processes, ensuring that they are supported to fully understand their rights, decision outcomes and the decision review process.</li> </ul><ul> <li>To advise and advocate on issues relating to benefits, accessing specialist support services, housing rights etc. ensuring the young people are fully supported to access such services</li> </ul>To utilise legal advice services to effectively advocate on a young person's behalf. QUALIFICATIONS Essential: <ul> <li>GCSE English and Maths - C Grade and above or equivalent</li> </ul>Desirable: <ul> <li>NVQ 3 Advice &amp; Guidance, Health &amp; Social Care or equivalent or working towards Youth Work, Social Work or equivalent</li> <li>Housing qualification</li> </ul>ROLE EXPERIENCE Essential: <ul> <li>Working with young people in the following settings/Types of work - Youth Work, Residential or Social Work, Probation, Community Work, Education and Training, Housing.</li> <li>Delivering frontline triage or assessment service</li> </ul>Desirable: <ul> <li>Working with volunteers/students</li> </ul>KNOWLEDGE: Essential: <ul> <li>Housing Rights, Welfare Reform Knowledge</li> <li>Housing Legislation; i.e. Housing Act and Homelessness Reduction Act</li> <li>Knowledge of Children's Act i.e. Section 17, 20 and 47</li> <li>Knowledge of and commitment to E.O.P/Anti-Discriminatory practice</li> </ul>Desirable: <ul> <li>Knowledge of Social Skills/Job Training Skills</li> <li>Ability to work with figures</li> <li>Ability to maintain and improve standards</li> </ul>Locations Coventry

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