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About The Job
Job summary
The job of the Department of Levelling Up Housing and Communities is to create great places to live and work, and to give more power to local people to shape what happens in their area. The Government has committed to eliminating rough sleeping in the term of this parliament, and to fully enforce the Homelessness Reduction Act. This is an exciting time to join a high-profile team and provides a great opportunity for excellent individuals to work collaboratively across sectors and help influence the shape of homelessness service delivery, and make a real difference to thousands of lives.
The Homelessness Reduction Act came into force in April 2018 and significantly reformed England’s homelessness legislation by placing duties on local authorities to intervene earlier to prevent homelessness in their areas. An early review of the implementation of the Act carried out during 2019-20 found that much had been achieved by local authorities and partners to improve services to prevent homelessness, but there is much still to do. The Homelessness Advice and Support Team (HAST) provides advice and guidance to local areas implementing the HRA, and the team has continued to work closely with local authorities on delivery of the new duties, improving homeless services and performance. HAST advisers also work alongside the Rough Sleeping Initiative team to support local areas to reduce rough sleeping, and are working with local areas on the Single Homelessness Accommodation Programme to increase the supply of safe and suitable housing for people moving on from rough sleeping. We are now recruiting for two new advisers to join the HAST team. The role is offered as a secondment opportunity (on existing salary) or as a fixed term contract.
We particularly welcome candidates from an ethnic minority background and other underrepresented groups to apply, as we work to continually improve our ability to represent the places and communities we support through our work
Job Description
The role involves:
Person specification
Behaviours
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
Technical Skills
We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £49,697, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities contributes £13,418 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window) , and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.
We are for everyone
At DLUHC we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce. We promote equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment and a working environment free from discrimination, harassment, bullying and victimisation.
We would strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about this role.
We are for everyone
DLUHC want to bring in a diverse workforce at all levels.
Our application system is designed to remove as much bias as possible from the recruitment system – this means that a hiring manager does not know your name, your details, see your whole application in one go (or have your CV at review stage unless stated otherwise).
At application stage you will be asked to upload a CV document. Unless stated otherwise in the advert, your CV will not form part of the assessment but will be used for information purposes and only shared with the panel at interview stage.
Your answers are randomised and chunked up. This means that each assessor views sets of responses to questions for example all candidates’ responses to ‘Seeing the Big Picture’ rather than seeing a candidate’s full application. The science behind this is that recruitment can be subject to ordering and fatigue effects and we want to reduce this as much as possible.
Most of our campaigns utilise multiple assessors and so it is possible that each of your answers would be viewed by different assessors.
When writing your application, remember:
At sift, we will be assessing
Behaviour -1 Seeing the big picture
Behaviour 2 – Changing and
Improving
Technical – As at 31 March 2023, the number of households in B&B accommodation with dependent children increased 131.2% to 3,930 households. Of the households with children in B&B, 1,840 had been resident for more than the statutory limit of 6 weeks. This is up 174.6% from 670 on 31 March 2022, and up 14.3% from 1,610 in the previous quarter. What steps could local authorities take to reduce or eliminate the use of unsuitable B&B accommodation for families?
Experience – Lead- Please set out how you meet the person specification requirements on experience, which includes having experience of delivering homelessness services at a senior management and strategic level.
There is a 250 word limit per question.
In the event that we receive a large number of applications, we may conduct an initial sift using the lead behaviour listed in the advert. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progress straight to assessment/interview
The interview will be of a blended nature consisting of the following success profiles elements:
Behaviour – Making Effective Decisions, Leadership, Communicating and Influencing and Working together
Technical Yes
Strength Yes
The strength based questions will require natural responses from the candidates.
A presentation to be prepared one hour before the interview and delivered to the panel. This will test both technical, and communicating and influencing, with a separate score for each element.
In the full campaign we will test the below Success Profile Elements:
Behaviours: Making Effective Decisions, Leadership, Communicating and Influencing, Seeing the Big picture, Changing and improving and Working together
Experience
Technical: (if no, remove)
Strengths: (Yes/No)
We do not consider direct CV applications to our Recruitment mailbox – you must apply for this role via the application link on Civil Service Jobs
Please note that near miss offers may be made at the lower grade to candidates who do not meet the grade criteria for this campaign.
Grade 7 salary
Please note that the average employer pension contribution is based upon the National minimum salary for this role. Should your agreed starting salary for this role be different, the average employer pension contribution will be calculated accordingly. If you are a Secondee, this will not apply as you will remain on your home organisation’s terms and conditions.
GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION:
This role is advertised as national, however you will still be required to select your preferred location from the list as your attached DLUHC office.
There may be opportunities for candidates to work flexibly depending on the business needs. This will be discussed with the vacancy manager on a case-by-case basis if you are successful for the role.
For further information on the DEC, please take a look at the attached DEC candidate pack.
SIFT AND INTERVIEW DATES :
Sifting is envisaged to take place W/C 17/10/2023 with interview dates to be confirmed. All interviews are currently being held remotely via videocall.
Reserve List
In the event that we identify more appointable candidates than we currently have posts available, we will hold applicant details on a reserve list for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made. This may include roles at a lower grade. Candidates placed on a reserve list will be informed of this. Those candidates who do not wish to remain on the reserve list should contact [email protected] to be removed from the reserve list.
CTC (Counter-terrorism Clearance) :
Important note
Successful candidates for roles based in our 2 Marsham Street building must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is counter-terrorist check and the process can take up to 8 weeks to complete.
Please note that successful candidates will need to pass the CTC security checks – this requires you to have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years. Please refer to the DLUHC Notes on Security Clearance section of our Candidate Pack for further information on Counter Terrorism Clearance (CTC). Thank you.
Candidates should also note that with effect from 1 st August 2018 the department will also check all applicants who are successful at interview, against the Internal Fraud Database (IFD) held by the Cabinet Office. In accordance with the Civil Service Internal Fraud Policy, any applicant who is included on the IFD will be refused employment by DLUHC. Please see the Candidate Pack for further information on the Internal Fraud Database.
Candidate Pack Information
Please see attached Candidate pack for further information.
Before starting your application it’s very important to make sure that you are eligible to apply and meet the Civil Service nationality requirements. All candidates are expected to read the information provided in the DLUHC candidate pack regarding nationality requirements and rules
Internal Fraud Database
The Internal Fraud function of the Fraud, Error, Debt and Grants Function at the Cabinet Office processes details of civil servants who have been dismissed for committing internal fraud, or who would have been dismissed had they not resigned. The Cabinet Office receives the details from participating government organisations of civil servants who have been dismissed, or who would have been dismissed had they not resigned, for internal fraud. In instances such as this, civil servants are then banned for 5 years from further employment in the civil service. The Cabinet Office then processes this data and discloses a limited dataset back to DLUHC as a participating government organisations. DLUHC then carry out the pre employment checks so as to detect instances where known fraudsters are attempting to reapply for roles in the civil service. In this way, the policy is ensured and the repetition of internal fraud is prevented.
For more information please see- Internal Fraud Register
Fixed Term Details
For external candidates – you will be offered a 2 year fixed term appointment with a possibility of permanency.
For existing civil servants – you will be offered a 2 year loan opportunity. Before applying for the role, you will need to seek approval from your parent department to take up a loan appointment should you be successful.
For Secondments – you will be offered a 2 year secondment opportunity. Before applying for the role, you will need to seek approval from your employer to take up a secondment opportunity should you be successful.
For DLUHC employees – you will retain your existing contract.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is counter-terrorist check (opens in a new window) . See our vetting charter (opens in a new window) .
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality Requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles (opens in a new window) .
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
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