Youth Homelessness Adviser - Leeds, United Kingdom - Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

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Leeds, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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- £51,934

The posts can be offered as a secondment on existing salary, or as a permanent contract within the salary ranges £51,934 £61,562 (National) and £57,091 £66,677 (London) depending on location and experience. For existing civil servants, standard terms and conditions on lateral transfer and promotion will apply.
A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade:
Grade 7
Contract type:
Permanent
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Other
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Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
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Darlington, Leeds, Manchester, WolverhamptonAbout the job

Job summary:

The adviser role includes regular face to face contact with local authorities, stakeholders and civil service colleagues in a variety of locations across the country and can require extensive travel commitments and overnight stays. This means it is highly likely that you will undertake official business from sites other than your official DLUHC office, alongside homebased working in accordance with DLHUC policies.

The Homelessness Advice and Support Team (HAST) based within the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Directorate, provides advice and guidance to local areas implementing the Homelessness Reduction Act, 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.

This is an exciting time to join a high-profile team and provides a great opportunity for an excellent individual to: work collaboratively across sectors, help influence the shape of youth homelessness and the delivery of services to prevent young people from becoming homeless, and ensure looked after young people are supported through successful transitions to independence, making a real difference to thousands of lives.

The post holder will deliver a workplan to provide expert advice, support and challenge on youth homelessness prevention to local authority Housing and Children's Services departments across England

Job description:

The role involves:

Visiting and working with local authorities and key partners across England, ensuring work is delivered effectively and to demanding timescales.
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 and improve local service delivery.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Developing work to ensure local authorities have joint housing protocols and procedures in place to deliver and go beyond statutory duties for young people age 16/17, looked after young people preparing to leave care, and care experienced young adults who become homeless or are threatened with homelessness.
Supporting implementation of improved data collection, as well as learning from experience around the country to inform ongoing policy development
Delivering presentations, workshops and events, identifying and disseminating good practice information and advice.
Effective recording and sharing of key information to support programme management and policy development.

Person specification:

A minimum of 2 years experience working at a senior level with local authority homelessness and children's services; and working with partners, to design and deliver services that prevent homelessness and improve housing outcomes for vulnerable young people, including those with care experience
Be an expert and leader in youth homelessness, with a clear understanding of the factors which contribute to young people and those with care experience becoming homeless, with a proven track record in developing and