Job Description

Job Context:

Our Housing service offers a temporary accommodation solution to young people experiencing homelessness across 3 housing projects in Hackney, Islington and Haringey with two moves on homes in North London. The accommodation projects are open 24/7 - 365 days a year.

1.

Duties and Responsibilities

ETE Activities and Resident Involvement

Lead on the design and delivery of high-quality activities to involve residents and help them to gain useful life skills and experience that will help them to move to independent living.

Provide regular evaluation report of programme status, service delivery, impact and record this accordingly.

Set up a resident feedback forum for all aspects of the service provided by YLCAN.

Ensure that the activities are person-centred and take account of the psychological and emotional needs of the residents.

Ensure your teams act as facilitators for any ETE partners, to increase engagement and outcomes.

Be accountable to facilitate programme sessions and activities with young people and volunteers and ensure service delivery is of the highest quality. Establish and create meaningful working relationships with residents and young people involved in our services. Be the point of contact for all ETE related information and activities from external and internal enquiries. Be able to network with external partners to ensure joined up working and share best practice. To have effective communication with partners, agencies, and social enterprises. To actively lead the promotion of the opportunities available to resident and encourage residents to become involved with the YLCAN. Support the Resident Pathways Manager to develop a Residents Engagement strategy
Play a key role in identifying potential funders and support with funding applications for ongoing activities, and to source and explore partnerships and opportunities with partners

Monitor, report and improve levels of customer satisfaction, by ensuring the relevant KPI's are set and monitored in line with the Resident Pathways Manager. Play a key role in identifying potential funders and support with funding applications for ongoing activities. Ensure your teams engage, encourage, and facilitate ETE opportunities. Ensure your teams set up the appropriate space and venue alongside promoting any ETE activities. To help measure our Social Value outputs and outcome to assess our impact. To ensure that ETE opportunities are explored, cultivated, and offered to young people across our housing projects.
To support the recruitment, training and management of volunteers, ensuring they are highly engaged, thus ensuring service delivery is of the highest quality with appropriate content, supporting young people to develop their confidence and skills.

Ensure the Residents Pathways Officers are keeping Inform database up to date and that participation in activities and observations as the first point of contact are recorded accordingly in line with KPIs.

Front Out House

Take the lead to ensure the team provide an efficient and effective front of house service for all residents, members, and clients of the YMCA

Maintain the integrity of the personal data; protect personal data from breaches and maintain the confidentiality of personal data.

Report any data breaches promptly to your line manager.

To be responsible for monitoring your team's performance and implementation of policies, processes, and procedures to ensure the effective running of the Front of House.

Produce comprehensive rotas that appropriately staff the service with a balance of colleague wellbeing and working time directive.

Ensuring attractive information displays are maintained.

Ensure compliance by residents and their guests with the house rules and licence agreement, reporting any breaches in accordance with the YLAN's policy.

To appropriately respond to and record any incidents, safeguarding and complaint management and report in line with YLCAN London City and North policies and procedures, ensuring all incidents and complaints are investigated and sanctions are given when appropriate.

Ensure that all records and databases are kept up-to-date, and that information is input in a timely and accurate manner.

Ensure that team are adhering to GDPR in line with the suite of policies.

Ensure the Highest Level of Customer Service is practiced at all times.

Manage the cash handling process and transactions methodically and efficiently via the cash till system and using Inform database to enter in move-ins and move-on, give and receive room keys.

Operating the opening or closing procedures, depending upon shift work patterns.

To undertake cashing up of rents and payments in line with the company policy.

Monitoring the movements of residents as far as is reasonably practical by checking the CCTV regularly and Traction Guest to ensure all guests are properly signed in and out.

Ensuring compliance by residents and their guests with the house rules and licence agreement, reporting any breaches in accordance with the YLCAN's policy.

Housing Management

To oversee the day-to-day operation of the Housing Pathways Team to ensure that your allocated site is operating at the expected standard

Deliver our Vision, Mission and Values through quarterly plans detailing specific objectives, activities, and anticipated outcomes in line with our housing models.

Ensure that we are operating to contract requirements with our partners/stakeholders.

Motivate the team and initiate a creative, innovative, and person-centred approach to working with young people that aligns with our commitment with creating a Phycological informed environment.

Review case files to help plan opportunities for residents.

Work collaboratively with your team to implement the Foyer accreditation and embed a Psychological Informed Environment.

To be responsible for the safety and security of the housing accommodation by reviewing policies, procedures, and our partnership with our night team contractors.

Liaise with all statutory agencies in line with housing legislation

To ensure that the management of the service is responsive to the needs and demands of residents

Regulatory Standards and Compliance

To ensure all staff work in line with the organisation's Child Protection and Safeguarding policies and procedures.

To develop Housing Services in line with the Housing Regulation Framework guidelines and to assist in any Inspections.

Perform regular quality checks throughout the accommodation project

Staff Management

Provide line management to the Resident Pathways Officers and ensure that the staffing levels are always appropriate in line with YLCAN procedures. Manage annual leave, time off in lieu, sickness, timesheets, rotas, regular work reviews, recruitment and selection of new staff and performance within the team.

Identify, develop and implement appropriate training programmes for staff including awareness of working with young people, complaint handling and customer care skills.

Ensuring effective duty rota development and implementation in liaison with your line manager. To monitor the performance of the Site Leads including all housing staff on their conduct, wellbeing, and caseload.

Ensure that YLCAN policies and procedures are understood and implemented by the housing department.

Ensure the team are receiving the essential training and a personal development plan is devised for all.

Ensure the team always operate in line with professional boundaries and role model acceptable behaviour.

Ensure that the Resident Pathways Officers are receiving monthly one to ones, annual performance reviews and the housing model is being followed

Upskill your team can offer advice and guidance to residents on their prospects.

2.

Other

Lead the Resident Pathways Officers and develop a robust and professional employee culture across all sites

Streamline services so all accommodation projects and move on properties are working in line with the same policies and procedures.

To represent the organisations at external forums and meetings.

Maintain and develop the processes and procedures of best practice for care, support and supervision for vulnerable young people.

Maintain a thorough knowledge of housing legislation and seek to stay up to date with the White Paper for housing and levelling up.

To undertake other duties commensurate with grade and status

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To arrange and/or cover at any Housing site for holiday or sickness within the housing department.

Carry out all duties with due regard to the ethos, aims and purposes of YLCAN.

3.

Scope and limits of authority

To be responsible for ensuring effective housing pathways service operating a high standard of supported accommodation in line with processes at your allocated accommodation project 24/7.

Develop and seek smarter ways of working across the service IT applications, particularly INFORM.

Ensure your team are working to the YLCAN code of conduct and employee relation issues are dealt with promptly in line with our HR policies.

Manage and cultivate a flexible team who are open to change the housing pathways service.

Licence Agreement

To ensure licence agreements are always in line with legislation and best practice, ensuring breaches are managed effectively and promptly.

To ensure that young people are actively engaging with the housing services.

To be responsible for maintaining strong links with a range of stakeholders in order to maximise referrals and opportunities for YP.

Ensure the team supports residents in sustaining their license agreement.

Income Maximisation

Deliver a robust monitoring mechanism ensuring maximisation of occupancy in line with a void management plan

Source funding opportunities to support ETE activities across the Housing Offer

Produce monthly reports for the Head of Housing on all KPIs including, engagement and outputs, employee relations and Incidents/Safeguarding/Complaints.

Person Specification- Housing Pathways Site Lead

Knowledge and Qualifications

Educated to Level 4 or equivalent in Housing or relevant experience

Desirable

Knowledge, understanding and awareness of

Health and safety provisions and requirements in a residential project.

Current housing legislation and regulations

Safeguarding

Education, Training and Employment

Engagement Strategies

People Management

Essential

Understands Income Streams through partnerships and contract management

Essential

Understands the psychological informed environment approach.

Essential

Change Management Qualification or Experience

Essential

Experience

Minimum of three years' experience of working with young people.

Essential

Experience of Implementing psychological informed environment.

Essential

Three years' experience of working within the housing sector.

Essential

Experience of handling complex employee relation issues.

Essential

Experience of dealing effectively with difficult client groups.

Essential

Significant experience of managing conflict

Essential

Experience of meeting performance standards and key performance indicators.

Essential

Abilities and Skills

Ability to manage and motivate staff effectively and to promote good team work.

Essential

Excellent communication skills with the ability to produce timely and accurate reports in line with deadlines.

Essential

Ability to work constructively as a leader of a team and within a multi-agency framework.

Essential

Ability to develop and maintain constructive relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.

Essential

Ability to organise self and others to maintain high standards of service and lead teams to desired goals, using own initiative.

Essential

Excellent organisational and problem solving skills.

Essential

A commitment to equal opportunities in service delivery and diversity in employment practices.

Essential

IT proficiency including working with database systems.

Essential

Willingness to work flexibly in response to changing organisational requirements.

Essential

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: 32,164.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension Gym membership
Ability to commute/relocate:

Hackney E9 5EJ: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:

Residential Childcare: 1 year (preferred) Support Environment: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:

NVQ Level 2 Health & Social Care (preferred)
Work Location: In person