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Job Title: Homeless Prevention Coordinator (HRA)

Reports to: Team Leader

Salary: Scale SO1, Points 29-31, £26,137 - £27,865 per annum, pro rata

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

Key Responsibilities:

• To ensure that home visits and accompanying young people to appointments are
  appropriate and undertaken in line with agreed lone working procedures.
  
  • To ensure that interventions are planned, implemented, reviewed and evaluated to
  ensure positive outcomes for young people and their families, in line with prevention
  and/or relief pathway duties.
  
  • Ensure fair allocation of cases in line with service criteria and regular assessment/
  reviews of individual capacity/ performance.
  
  • Maintain partnerships with key agencies including, voluntary sector, local authorities
  and Private companies.
  
  • Contribute to the development and design of the service to meet the identified needs
  of young people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
  
  • Ensure the best possible outcomes for young people including homeless prevention
  through support and mediation, access to statutory services and access to
  accommodation.

Team Management Duties:

• Support teams to provide high quality support services that promote choice and

independence, actively engaging young people in making decisions about their life.

• Development of St Basil’s staff, through effective line management and ensuring

compliance with standards, contractual and regulatory requirements, best practice
and St Basils’ policies and procedures.

• Measuring the performance of the Service by setting and achieving targets and

producing statistical reports, where required.

• Maintain agreed standards of joint working for all aspects of the service provided.
• Ensure data collection requirements of the project are maintained. Following agreed

procedures for the review process incl. effective tracking and monitoring of services.

• Ensure staffing resources meet contractual requirements and that risks and trends are

monitored and managed in a timely way with appropriate approvals secured and
necessary adjustments made.

• To attend and actively contribute to key meetings i.e. operational steering group, team

meetings, case review.

• To ensure that all records are maintained accurately and professionally, alongside

ensuring that all internal and external data and monitoring systems are kept up to
date at all times.

• To ensure that statutory decisions are made and issued in line with legislation under

the Housing Act 1996 and the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017.

• To ensure that cases are presented where a homelessness main duty is

owed under the relief pathway in a timely manner to the local authority.

• To ensure that a duty system is operated at the Youth Hub.
• Contribute to reporting to Commissioners and key stakeholders regarding service

performance.

• Maintain close reporting contact with the Youth Hub partnership managers, to ensure

effective communication and service delivery.