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Housing Options and Homeless Prevention Manager

Uxbridge

Operational manager for Homeless Prevention Team managing the delivery of our triage, prevention and relief services.

Job Role

Leadership and management of the Housing Options, Move-On and Homeless Prevention service for residents in need of housing advice and assistance.

Be responsible for proactively leading a service delivering advice on housing options advice, including low cost home ownership, preventing homelessness and undertaking statutory assessments.

Be responsible for leading and contributing to the delivery of strategic improvements to the service and other corporate, cross-cutting priorities, as required to deliver corporate priorities.This includes working closely with social care services to support the move-on of families to suitable accommodation, leading on cross-service strategies and understanding the impact of housing decisions on other key service areas.

Key Tasks

To be responsible for the selection, development and performance of the Housing Options, Move-On and Homeless Prevention Teams in line with the Council's HR policies.

To be a visible and effective leader within the service and department, represent the service at a range of public and internal forums, actively seek to improve the council's service delivery.

To implement and embed relevant policies, strategic actions and objectives within the operation of the team, identifying opportunities to improve performance, promoting modern and professional service delivery, expanding good practice and actively targeting weaker aspects of the service to improve.

To manage and deliver the range of panels available to enable key groups to access suitable housing and support, ensuring consistency and transparency in decision making.

To actively lead the team setting up, chairing and managing meetings and forums where required.

Manage and lead the service team by analysing and using data reports to set team specific targets, to monitor performance and evaluate progress and identify case risks which require mitigating action