Homelessness Prevention Team Leader

Job Description

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 Reading with hybrid working available 3-month contract (initial) Umbrella rate: £38–£42 per hour DOE

Hours: Full-Time (37 hrs)

We are recruiting an experienced Homelessness Prevention Team Leader to lead a frontline service supporting families at risk of homelessness. This is an operational, hands-on interim role requiring strong people management skills and up-to-date statutory homelessness expertise.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a frontline homelessness prevention service for families, ensuring delivery of statutory duties under the Housing Act 1996 (as amended).
• Provide day-to-day management, coaching and professional support to officers, maintaining high standards of casework quality.
• Oversee and approve complex homelessness assessments and prevention/relief activity, ensuring decisions are legally robust.
• Chair action-focused, multi-agency case conferences to resolve complex cases.
• Interpret and apply complex housing and welfare legislation, providing guidance to staff and partner organisations.
• Monitor service performance, expenditure and budgets, supporting cost control and prevention outcomes.
• Work effectively within a multi-disciplinary environment, liaising with internal teams and external partners.

Essential Experience:

• Recent experience delivering a frontline housing or homelessness service at Team Leader level.
• Evidence of recent hands-on experience of Section 2A(2) of the Housing Act 1996 (as amended) and the ability to clearly evidence this at interview.
• Strong experience interpreting complex housing and welfare legislation.
• Proven experience managing and supporting staff in a high-pressure operational environment.
• Experience of monitoring budgets and expenditure.
• Experience chairing action-focused case conferences and working in a multi-agency setting.

 Why apply? xwzovoh

• Competitive £38 – £42 per hour (Umbrella, DOE)
• Hybrid working
• Opportunity to make an immediate impact supporting families at risk of homelessness
• Interim role suited to experienced leaders who can hit the ground running

If you’re available for your next interim assignment and looking for a role with real impact, get in touch or apply today.