Lead Practitioner, Housing Services (Rough Sleeping Coordinator)
Job Summary
Working Pattern:
Full time
Advert Start Date:
27/06/2019
Advert End Date:
Closed for applications on 11/07/2019 23:59
Salary:
£37,849 - £40,760 per annum
Hours per week:
37 hours per week
Employment Location:
Newcastle upon Tyne
Further Information
37 hours per week
Our Street Zero partnership aims to make it everyone’s business to end rough sleeping in Newcastle by 2022. Newcastle has the lowest rate of people found rough sleeping of the English core cities, however we know that this relative success is also an absolute failure for those people who still sleep rough in our city.
We are recruiting a Rough Sleeping Coordinator to help the Council and its partners to provide leadership and coordination to improve the effectiveness of the city’s responses to ensure that no one should have to sleep rough.
Newcastle has a good track record in preventing and relieving homelessness but we know that ending rough sleeping won’t be easy. People do not sleep rough in Newcastle due to a simple accommodation shortage, the causes of rough sleeping are related to contradictory and fragmented state responses to the small number of people who cannot simply meet the conditional requirements of accessing and sustaining accommodation.
The Rough Sleeping Coordinator will work as part of the Council’s Active Inclusion Service and help to change the service offers for people whom fragmented services don’t work for. The Rough Sleeping Coordinator will improve access to the 729 rooms the Council currently commissions for people facing homelessness, help people to safely return to their area of origin and test new approaches with partners who support people who sleep rough but cannot be accommodated within our current provision.
The successful candidate should have experience of coordinating responses for people who experience complex problems that lead to social exclusion. The successful candidate will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, will be analytical and have an understanding of how to use evidence to inform service and system change to maximise the value of the Council’s investment to end rough sleeping.
We are committed to protecting and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. This post is working in regulated activity. If you are successful we will undertake additional recruitment checks which will include a check to see if you have had any criminal convictions, a check of police information and we will check the barred list(s). It is a criminal offence for a barred individual to apply for a job in regulated activity.
Apply online at www.northeastjobs.org.uk.
As this post involves working with children, vulnerable adults or dealing with sensitive information, written references will be taken up and made available to interviewers before the final selection stage; even if you indicate otherwise.
Please note
This job is closed for applications.