Leicester Housing & Support Manager (Homelessness Services)

The Housing Network; Leicester; Sur place; GBP 38 000 - 46 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

The Housing Network in Leicester is seeking a Supported Housing Manager to lead a team delivering high-quality support to vulnerable individuals facing homelessness. This full-time role focuses on team development, safeguarding, contract performance, and compliant service delivery.

Based in Leicester, the position offers a salary of £42,000 per annum and a 40-hour work week, with opportunities to improve skills and influence housing outcomes for residents.

Responsabilités

• Lead and support a team of support workers to deliver high quality support sessions, supporting individuals with multiple disadvantage who are facing homelessness.
• Manage and administer an effective high-performance culture through regular 1:1s, objective setting and appraisals, providing additional support where necessary to overcome challenges and barriers.
• Support your team to seek out opportunities for knowledge development and skill improvement, reviewing its relevance against organisational policies and budgets.
• Fulfil all mandatory line management responsibilities (e.g. annual leave and sickness management), providing strong leadership throughout the entire employee life cycle in accordance with the organisation’s People policies.
• Lead on ensuring all aspects of service and property compliance and H&S are maintained at appropriate levels at all times, escalating concerns without delay to senior management.
• Lead on the monitoring and delivery of all relevant contract performance elements, supporting your team to proactively engage with the meeting (and exceeding) of those measures.
• Maintain oversight across all safeguarding matters for the service, leading on engagement with external stakeholders and multi-disciplinary teams, attending case review meetings where appropriate.
• Support the team to take ownership of any rent management matters for residents, helping them to understand the importance of appropriate money management and to take necessary action to avoid arrears, which will involve administration of housing benefit claims.
• Support the team with welfare benefit queries and money management skills to maximise rental income.

Description du poste

The Housing Network in Leicester is seeking a Supported Housing Manager to lead a team delivering high-quality support to vulnerable individuals facing homelessness. This full-time role focuses on team development, safeguarding, contract performance, and compliant service delivery.

Based in Leicester, the position offers a salary of £42,000 per annum and a 40-hour work week, with opportunities to improve skills and influence housing outcomes for residents.