Housing Options and Homeless Prevention Manager, Hillingdon

The post holder will be the Council's leading expert on homelessness and housing legislation, policy and procedures across a range of service areas to support joined up service delivery. The role will be entail leadership and management of the Housing Options, Move-On and Homeless Prevention service for residents in need of housing advice and assistance. The post-holder will be responsible for proactively leading a service delivering advice on housing options advice, including low cost home ownership, preventing homelessness and undertaking statutory assessments. Minimum of 3 years' experience of leading and managing a complex local authority Homeless Prevention service. This post holder will have the freedom to manage the service in a way that they feel will develop and improve. Significant experience in developing and implementing effective commissioning plans to reduce levels of homelessness. Leading the delivery of complex, cross-cutting service improvement plans and business strategies to improve services, including business performance and risk management plans. Analysing and interpreting complex, disparate datasets providing valuable organisational intelligence to drive improvement. The candidate appointed will be directly responsible for 5 team managers. Successfully leading multiple, complex projects involving a range of partners, including senior managers. Preparing written reports and presentations to Members, senior managers and staff groups, including organisations outside of the council, presenting complex information in language used every day. If you meet the criteria above and feel that you would be a good candidate for this position then please don't hesitate to give me a call to speak in further detail about the role