Principal Housing Options Officer (Team Leader)

Project overview

A local authority in Warwickshire is looking for an experienced Principal Housing Options Officer / Team Leader to support its Housing Options service.

You'll manage a team of 6 interim Housing Options Officers, including officers specialising in Rough Sleeping, Migration/Resettlement and Domestic Abuse, alongside generic Housing Options Officers.

The service currently has a significant backlog, so they need someone who can provide strong day-to-day management while helping the team improve performance and work through outstanding cases.

Responsibilities

They're ideally looking for someone with previous Housing Options Team Leader / Principal Officer experience within a local authority who can come in and hit the ground running.

Hybrid working: roughly 1 day per week in the office, dependent on meetings, staff inductions and service requirements.

• Day-to-day management and supervision of 6 Housing Options Officers
• Managing workloads, performance, case quality and priorities
• Supporting officers with complex homelessness cases and decision-making
• Helping the service tackle its existing backlog
• Ensuring cases are progressed effectively in line with the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 and Part VII of the Housing Act 1996
• Supporting work around temporary accommodation reduction, including prevention, move-on and reducing unnecessary TA usage
• Staff inductions, 1-2-1s and general team leader responsibilities

Project details

£35-£40 per hour

If you're interested, or know someone suitable, drop me an email and I can run through the details.

• Start: flexible
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: West Midlands, GB
• Rate: 35-40 EUR/h
• Languages: English