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Youth Homelessness Adviser
2 months ago
**Details**:
**Reference number**:
- 285015**Salary**:
- £49,697- The posts can be offered as a secondment on existing salary, or as a loan or fixed term agreement within the salary ranges £48197 - £57,362 (National) and £53,132 - £62,477 (London) depending on location and experience. For existing civil servants, standard terms and conditions on lateral transfer and promotion will apply**Job grade**:
- Grade 7**Contract type**:
- Fixed Term
- Loan
- Secondment**Length of employment**:
- 2 years**Business area**:
- Homelessness & Rough Sleeping**Type of role**:
- Other**Working pattern**:
- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:
- 1Contents
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- Birkenhead, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Hastings, Hemel Hempstead, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham, Sheffield, Warrington, WolverhamptonAbout the job
**Job summary**:
The Department of Levelling Up Housing and Communities’ (DLUHC) job is to create great places to live and work, and to give more power to local people to shape what happens in their area.
The Government has committed to eliminating rough sleeping in the term of this parliament, and to fully enforce the Homelessness Reduction Act (HRA). This is an exciting time to join a high-profile team and provides a great opportunity to work collaboratively across sectors and help influence the delivery of services to prevent young people from becoming homeless, and ensure looked after young people are supported through a successful transition to independence.
The Homelessness Advice and Support Team (HAST) was set up to provide advice and guidance to local areas implementing the HRA, and continues to work closely with local authorities on delivery of the new duties, improving homeless services and performance. The team is made up of people with operational experience of managing homelessness services and leading improvements in service delivery, at a senior level.
Our Youth Homelessness Advisers are jointly funded by the Department for Education (DfE) as part of the department’s contribution to ending rough sleeping, particularly for care experienced young people. The postholder will deliver a workplan to provide advice, support and challenge to local authority Housing and Children’s Services departments across England. This includes working with funded areas to implement and deliver a programme to prevent care leavers from homelessness and rough sleeping, and to improve joint planning and support to ensure young people move on from care into secure and sustainable homes.
The Youth Homelessness Adviser; will contribute to development of policy and planning for delivery of government youth homelessness priorities.
**Job description**:
1. Visiting and working with local authorities and key partners across England, ensuring work is delivered effectively and to demanding timescales
2. Delivering targeted advice, challenge and support to local authority housing and children’s services departments; to help improve practice and performance, and to develop and share effective practice to prevent youth homelessness. 3. Delivering expert adviser support to local authority housing and children’s services departments, that is relevant to local context and issues, and providing additional guidance and challenge to areas where needed.
4. Responsible for local authority engagement, delivery, monitoring and reporting of a targeted DfE funded programme for services that prevent care experienced young people from becoming homeless, in areas of highest need
5. Supporting work to embed the Homelessness Reduction Act, and particularly to help local authorities address the complex interaction between homelessness and children’s social care legislation, build a preventative problem solving culture and deliver the best outcomes for vulnerable young people 6. Providing guidance and expert advice on delivery of funding opportunities to increase accommodation and support options that will prevent young people from becoming homeless, and to support move on from rough sleeping.
7. Developing work to ensure local authorities have joint protocols and procedures in place to deliver and go beyond statutory duties for looked after young people preparing to leave care, and care experienced young adults who become homeless or are threatened with homelessness.
8. Supporting implementation of improved data collection, as well as learning from experience around the country to inform on-going policy development9. Delivering presentations, workshops and events, disseminating good practice information and advice
10. Effective recording and sharing of key information to support programme management and policy development
**Person specification**:
Essential criteria:
- An expert and leader in youth homelessness, with a clear understanding of the factors which contribute to young p
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