Rough Sleepers Co-ordinator

2 months contract with a North London based Local Authority_

**Job Summary**:

- As the Council’s Rough Sleeping Coordinator, you can make a powerful contribution to our Housing Options and Support Service.
- You will work alongside friendly, highly skilled and collaborative colleagues who share your commitment to improving services for vulnerable people who are homeless.
- Together, the Rough Sleeping Team ensures support and accommodation pathways are person-centred, accessible and high quality.
- You’ll discover an environment in which people are ambitious and inspired to meet challenges by embracing new ways of working.

**Key Duties/Accountabilities**:

- You’ll support managers to develop and manage new partnerships and relationships with key stakeholders and residents.
- You’ll actively engage with, and support commissioned and contract service providers who deliver frontline support services, accommodation and person-led housing solutions.
- We’ll look to you to help make sure our accommodation and support pathways address the needs of different groups, many of whom have complex and challenging needs, safely and effectively.
- Specifically, you’ll help us deliver a focus through all our services to prevent homelessness and rough sleeping.
- To deliver timely needs assessment and interventions that support those with complex needs.
- To provide high quality, specialised and appropriate accommodation and support and to facilitate successful moves into independent accommodation with appropriate transitionary support.
- A personalisation approach to support for people who are rough sleeping experienced or are homeless is at the heart of our mission - you’ll work with service providers and commissioners to develop this approach.
- You’ll also collaborate with them to find solutions for delivering enhanced services and support a wide take-up of our accommodation offer.
- Crucially, you’ll support our Housing Options Operations Managers to ensure our delivery models meet the diverse physical and mental health needs of people who are sleeping rough in the borough.

**Essential Experience Required**:

- Experience of providing housing related advice and support to rough sleepers.
- Experience of managing a team.
- Experience of working with homeless clients and those in housing need.
- Experience of carrying out face-to-face interviews, investigations and negotiating with homeless clients.
- You’ll demonstrate a personal passion for being part of the Housing Options and Support service and have the drive to help make change happen.
- You will have demonstrable experience of supporting vulnerable people in a busy environment.
- A team player, you have great communication and relationship building skills, whether face-to-face, on the phone or in writing.
- You’ll bring to the role excellent organisational skills, a flair for identifying and resolving problems and experience of delivering results within challenging timeframes.
- Experience of working with computerised record keeping is also vital.
- The closing date for this position is Friday 22/03/2024._