Head of Housing Options

Head of Housing Options

Join us as Head of Housing Options to play a key ley senior role within our Place Directorate. Your impact as a strategic leader can take our approach to preventing homelessness to a new level, while improving access to safe, secure and sustainable housing.

Make your mark on the future of Salford

Salford has much to celebrate as a city, from new homes and employment opportunities to its vibrant cultural scene. Yet there is still huge potential to build on past successes and find new and innovative ways to improve residents’ lives.

Housing is a key priority. We want you to set the vision and direction for a high performing, values driven service that works effectively across the Council, with partners and within communities. You will build a team with the passion and capabilities to deliver prevention, early help, strengthen independence, and secure positive outcomes for residents.

The role

You will provide visible, values-driven strategic leadership, setting clear direction and driving transformational change that improves outcomes, modernises working practices, reduces spend and strengthens organisational culture. Key responsibilities include:

• Leading the delivery of our Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategies, ensuring homelessness prevention is embedded across core Council services.
• Ensuring that all statutory homelessness duties are implemented effectively
• Driving the implementation of homelessness prevention activities.
• Providing strategic leadership for statutory homelessness assessments, prevention and relief activity, Allocations Policy implementation, Choice Based Lettings system management and the delivery of high quality housing advice.
• Developing and sustaining a skilled, motivated and values driven workforce.
• Ensuring the Housing Options service is fully immersed in the Live Well, All Age Prevention and Family First models.
• Championing innovation, partnership working and system wide collaboration.
• Leading the planning, delivery and monitoring of the service, in collaboration with partners.
• Building, strengthening and maintaining effective partnerships across Greater Manchester
• Contributing to the overall leadership of the Place Directorate.

About you

You will bring:

• demonstrated professional expertise and a strong track record of delivering sustainable, meaningful outcomes within housing, homelessness or a related field.
• up to date and in-depth knowledge of the legislative, regulatory and policy frameworks relating to housing, homelessness and allocations.
• the ability to inspire, motivate and lead teams, creating a positive, supportive and high performing working environment.
• a ‘can do’ attitude that gets things done focusing on positive outcomes for service users and staff.
• experience of leading successful change and transformation, enabling teams and services to adapt effectively to new challenges and opportunities.
• strategic leadership skills that enable the development and continuous improvement of services, ensuring they align with organisational priorities.
• excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills, with a positive, solutions focused, supportive approach and strong problem solving, planning and analytical capability.