Prevention Homeless Triage Officer - London, United Kingdom - London Borough of Bexley

London Borough of Bexley

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Vacancy Description

Title:

Prevention Homeless Triage Officer
Care Leavers

Service Area/School:

Childrens Services (excl Schools)
Children's Social Care & Safeguarding

About Us:

Bexley is an outer London Borough with the best of both worlds, located between the hustle and bustle of London and the Garden of England, Kent. Within the borough we have award winning parks, open spaces and listed heritage sites.

About the Role:

Are you interested in working with young people and young adults at risk of homeless and support them to access housing and support them to make a better transition to adulthood.

The Role:

To work with our young people in our care and young adults leaving our care to support their housing, support needs.
Work in collaboration with partner agencies to support care leavers into accommodation, identify areas of support, challenge and assist with appeals where housing and tenancy rights are not being followed, and overcome barriers to accommodation and housingpathways for our young adults.
Collate, record, maintain and understand relevant data to support the accommodation and housing pathways of our young adults.
To mediate where difficulties with tenancies, landlords, housing, or neighbours to help find solutions that help young adults maintain their housing and successfully resolve differences.

We are currently seeking an individual who will enjoy working as a Homeless Prevention Officer, with duties including:

Support young adults leaving our care to gain knowledge around tenancy management and their rights and responsibilities as a tenant by delivering tenancy ready courses to individual young people or in a group setting
Engage with housing providers and landlords to explore and seek local housing options for young adults leaving our care.
To identify any barriers to good housing options, support, and stability for young adults leaving our care and share these with line managers along with suggestions for how to overcome these and improve our housing options, support, and ways of working together

Please refer to the Job Description attached for more information.

We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.

We are currently looking for a professional who is able to support young people and young adults at risk of homelessness and actively working with our internal and external stakeholders to prevent homelessness under the Levelling Up programme. You will have to be able to build rapid rapport with young people and young adults and find solutions according to their needs with the support of their personal adviser and line manager.

Requirements:

Professional and/or academic level 3 qualification or equivalent or substantial experience in a relevant technical, specialised or operational field.
Experience of, or the ability to demonstrate the competence to, work directly with individual young people and young adults with complex needs as well as families to identify, assess their needs and make appropriate planned responses which seek to improve outcomes related to homelessness and prevention.
Experience working in housing department or as a housing officer working in accordance with housing legislation and statutory guidance.
Experience working with young people and young adults who have faced difficulties, such as addiction, mental illness, trauma, abuse, disabilities, and exploitation an asset.
For the full list of essential and desirable criteria for this role then please refer to the Person Specification within the Job Description attached.

This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

This post is considered by the authority to be a customer-facing position; as such it falls within scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers.

The council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements.

The appropriate standards are set out in the JD/Person Specification. These will be applied during the recruitment/selection and probationary stages.

Please note that the system has a one-hour time limit.

We would advise you to prepare your answers separately and then copy and paste into the online form once finalised and have your CV and/or Supporting statement ready to upload.

Additional Information
This role may be available as a development opportunity through secondment for the Council's existing employees. The Council's Secondment Scheme can be found here. If this option is of interest, please contact the recruiting manager.

Contract Duration: