Street Homelessness Accommodation Team Leader
Social Care
Full time
We are transforming our homelessness service to improve homelessness prevention, reduce temporary accommodation and end street homelessness.
Our new Housing Advisory Service will deliver sustainable housing outcomes for Enfield residents through a range of new services, including data-driven early intervention, community outreach, specialist practice teams and a street homelessness service.
We are seeking proactive, outcome focused people to join our Street Homelessness Service. The Street Homelessness Service has been set the ambitious target to end rough sleeping in Enfield.
Team Leader - Fixed Term Role until March 2026
We are recruiting for a Team Leader, to work within the Street Homelessness Accommodation Team, part of the Street Homelessness Service. The Street Homeless Accommodation Team provide housing related support services to former rough sleepers across three distinct supported housing projects – Housing First, Dispersed, and Shared Accommodation.
You will be an experienced team leader and will combine your expertise and knowledge of move on, safeguarding, managing ASB, housing related support, welfare and homelessness policy and legislation. You will help to manage a team of highly skilled employees including Housing Support Workers and Welfare Advisors, who are responsible for providing proactive housing related support to residents with a history of street homelessness.
You will ensure the service continues to delivers support of high quality to our residents to enable them to maintain their homes and move on into suitable long term accommodation. You must have strong communication and creative problem-solving skills together with the drive and passion to help vulnerable people to live independent and fulfilling lives. You must also be willing to work outside of office hours on occasion, be able to work independently and have good knowledge of welfare, housing and homelessness practice.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join and innovative and inspiring service aimed at ending rough sleeping in Enfield.
Contact Details
If you would like to know more about the role, please contact Selwyn Albert on 07356 141457 for an informal discussion.
If you have any difficulties accessing this information, please contact Vickie McGrath on 0208 132 1053 or at vickie.mcgrath@enfield.gov.uk
Why it's great to work for Enfield Council:
We are passionate about our people and how we deliver services to our community in Enfield. That’s why we encourage a culture that puts our customers at the heart of everything we do - by empowering our people to work together to find solutions, be open, honest and respectful, take responsibility and listen and learn. If you value these behaviours too, we’d love to hear from you - and of course we are always happy to talk flexible working, click here to find out more.
- An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Up to 31 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas.
- A blend of remote and office based working for most roles.
- Interest free season ticket loan repayable over three or ten months.
- Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods.
- Employee Assistance Programme to provide advice and counselling services. This is a free and confidential service available to staff and members of their family.
- Health and leisure discounts and tax-free bikes for work.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications have been received. Therefore, we advise that you complete fully and submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
If you have previously applied for this role within the past 6 months, unfortunately, a second application will not be considered.
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