Housing Solutions Team Manager

Job Introduction

Are you seeking a career where you can have a meaningful impact while being part of a team that's actively expanding to meet growing demand?

Look no further! Our Housing Solutions team is seeking for dedicated individuals like you to join us in addressing the pressing need to prevent homelessness in our community.

We’re recruiting for a highly motivated, enthusiastic, energetic, and experienced housing professional with a track record of improving services and the skills to work effectively with partners, customers, and councillors for this new role within our Housing Solutions management team.

This key role will be responsible for leading and shaping our Housing Solutions and Supply & Acquisitions service including teams who tackle homelessness, a rough sleeping service and other areas.

You will provide leadership and direction to maintain positive, performance-driven, and customer-focused teams in which colleagues are valued and empowered and encouraged to embrace change and innovation.

You will also have excellent working knowledge and understanding of the implications of local government issues, legislation, and the statutory obligations that affect the Housing Solutions service.

Main Responsibility

• Leading the operational delivery of the Council’s Housing Solutions and Supply & Acquisitions Service,
• Provide effective management of temporary accommodation, the rough sleeping and outreach service including resettlement.   
• Driving the Council’s Ending Rough Sleeping Plan, Temporary Accommodation Reduction Plan, Homelessness and Rough Sleeper Strategy and Resettlement programme.
• Developing close relationships with external stakeholders including DLUHC, Registered Providers, private sector landlords and local community & voluntary organisations to ensure the council is effectively preventing and reducing homelessness, increasing access to private rented housing for households.  
• knowledge and understanding of legislation, policy, procedures and practices in housing homelessness and rough sleeping and resettlement.

The Ideal Candidate

• Proven track record of delivering complex change projects that deliver real service improvement and cost reduction.
• knowledge and understanding of the commissioning environment and contract management.
• Proven track record of developing and leading collaborative partnerships with stakeholders in the public, private and voluntary and community sectors
• Experience of managing and developing staff as well as managing complex budgets
• Should you be offered the role, as part of the pre-employment checks a Basic DBS will be actioned for you and BPSS referencing 

Package Description

In addition to your salary, we offer a range of benefits including:

• Great holiday benefits - most roles include 28 days annual leave every year on top of public (bank) holidays, increasing to 32 days after five years.  In addition, there is a holiday purchase scheme allowing staff to purchase up to 5 additional days of leave each year.

• Excellent pension – everyone who works for us can join the national Local Government Pension Scheme, widely regarded as one of the best available.

• A full range of family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity support and a childcare subsidy.

• Access to an award-winning employee benefits programme that includes a health cash plan, a low-cost bike purchase scheme as well as high street discounts and money off entertainment and travel.

• Blue Light Card - employees working within social care can qualify for an additional range of discounts from national retailers and local businesses.

Our roles are either designated ‘site based’ or ‘home based’. ‘Site based’ roles can include up to two days a week working from home whilst ‘home based’ roles are based at home four days a week.  Of course, managers designate which category roles are in based on the needs of the service and the circumstances.

About The Organisation

Milton Keynes City Council is a large, modern and financially stable employer with around 2,500 people working across our eight areas. Together we provide local residents and businesses with a wide range of important round-the-clock services and aim to make our city a better place to live.

We work hard because of the demands placed on us, like protecting children from harm or preventing homelessness. However, working for the city is always rewarding and everyone has the opportunity to make a real difference. 

We’re very proud of our diversity and are committed to having a workforce that reflects the community we serve. Whatever your background, you will be welcome here if you share our values of being dedicated, respectful and collaborative.

We offer great training and support and because of the size and scale of the organisation there are always new opportunities to explore when it’s time for a new role.

If you’d like to know more about how we do things and what matters to us, take a look at our short booklet What makes us Milton Keynes City Council.