Homeless Prevention Specialist

10 hours ago

Coventry, Coventry, United Kingdom St Basils Full time
Job Title: Homeless Prevention Worker

Reports to: Team Leader

Salary: Scale 6, Points 26-26, £24,744 - £26,398 per annum, pro rata

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

Key Responsibilities:
  • To work collaboratively with other organizations and agencies to provide comprehensive, multi-agency responses to housing and support needs.
  • To provide a prompt and proactive, non-judgmental response to referrals to ensure engagement from the young person.
  • To engage and undertake effective assessments, providing information, advice, and guidance to ensure young people are signposted to relevant services/agencies and assist in the delivery of an advice and wellbeing service to young people who may be homeless or at risk of homelessness in the area.
  • To undertake appropriate background checks to ascertain level of risk and need, including previous landlord, parent/carer, probation, etc.
  • To develop and maintain effective partnership arrangements with regulated and/or approved private landlords, social housing providers, and supported accommodation providers through effective communication and clear understanding of roles and responsibilities.
  • To carry out homelessness prevention work, including liaising with landlords, families, and others, and by applying mediation and conciliation techniques wherever appropriate.
  • To report on outcomes, manage and prioritize own caseload, and evaluate each case, making decisions on appropriate options, meeting deadlines, and referring to other services and outside agencies as appropriate.
  • To safeguard young people and vulnerable adults at risk, through appropriate escalation and reporting to statutory services.
  • To attend panel meetings and review/case conference meetings regarding young people as and when required.
  • To provide advice and support to a range of stakeholders, including service heads, social workers, youth offending service, drug and alcohol services, physical and mental health services, housing providers, etc.
  • To develop and deliver training/briefings to partnership agencies about the service and to be an ambassador for an integrated approach to working with young people to offer early help and their wider support needs at the earliest opportunity.
  • To be part of local on-call providing an out-of-hours service.

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