Team Leader - Homelessness Housing Access

Team Leader – Homelessness Prevention and Housing Options Team

Location: Various Locations. Salary: £40,501 – £47,639. Hours: 36 per week.

Responsibilities

Provide leadership and direction in delivering key statutory Homelessness Prevention and Housing Options services. Ensure a customer‑focused, innovative service is delivered in line with good practice and applicable legislation. Shape the delivery of a developing service during this period of transition.

Qualifications

Education: SVQ Level 4 in a relevant subject. Significant professional experience within a housing environment. Track record of managing staff, projects and change. Will be required to work in any location across Edinburgh.

Pre‑employment checks: This post is regulated work with children or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. Preferred candidates will join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. If an applicant has spent a continuous period of three months or more abroad in the last five years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. A conditional offer will be subject to satisfactory outcomes of these checks.

Equal Opportunities

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce where everyone feels valued and able to be their best. We particularly encourage applications from women for senior roles, as well as people from minority ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities or neurodivergent people, care‑experienced people, carers and LGBT+ people across all levels of the organisation, all of whom are currently underrepresented. All applicants will be considered fairly based on skills and experience. Disabled and care‑experienced applicants who meet the minimum job criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

Interview Process

Part of the interview process will include an assessment of how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

Other Information

Happy to discuss flexible working arrangements.