Head of Homelessness Prevention
3 weeks ago
**Marks Consulting Partners are currently looking for a Head of Homelessness Prevention & Assessments to work with one of our clients in London.**
**What the job will be doing**
- To have overall strategic responsibility to deliver high quality housing advice and assessments, homelessness and prevention, rough sleeping, link support services, developing corporate policies and strategies for the services whilst ensuring that the organisationalgoals, corporate vision, and statutory obligations are met at all times.
- To lead a comprehensive prevention, assessment and advice service for all applicants in housing need, ensuring appropriate accommodation is identified together with any relevant support. To comply with the Council’s policies, statutory and legislative duties,and current case law.
- To lead on strategic analysis and policy for the services, using business intelligence and service transformation to improve, monitor and review the services policies, processes, and procedures.
- To develop, monitor and evaluate systems of risk management to deliver safe, effective and efficient housing advice, homeless, rough sleeping commissioning and link support services through different customer access channels by face to 2 face reception,telephone, other digital channels and admin function to residents ensuring excellent resident experience and high levels of customer satisfaction for all services provided.
- To work closely with the Assistant Director of Housing and Senior Managers, advise and implement strategic policy changes and act as lead officer on relevant legal issues related to the service areas.
**What you will need**
- Good understanding of the key issues facing local government, the wider public sector and partners and of local, regional and national policy
- Experience of developing and maintaining relationships with council departments and external voluntary community partners to deliver positive outcomes for residents
- A flexible and adaptable approach, to respond to shifting priorities and a rapidly evolving external environment
**How to Apply**
If you would like any further details about this position, please contact Ollie at Marks Consulting Partners.
If this job is not quite right for you but you are looking for something new, please contact us for a confidential discussion.
Marks Consulting Partners specialise in contract and permanent recruitment of technical property staff for the public sector including housing associations, local authorities, and related private sector companies. We do not advertise all of our vacanciesso please give us a call and register with us to be notified of all suitable roles.
**Industry**
Housing
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