Housing Advice and Options Manager, Northamptonshire

Housing Advice and Options Manager, Northamptonshire 
Pay rate £251.74 per day 
Contract role, Local Authority Housing 
 
Pertemps are recruiting for an experienced Housing Advice and Options Manager in Northamptonshire. 
Principal responsibilities  

1. Responsible for the management, delivery and performance of a housing advice and options service, including casework and homelessness assessments, ensuring the Council meets its statutory duties in line with legislation, guidance, caselaw and the Council’s Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy.
2. Ensure appropriate and prompt assessment of homelessness cases via a highly effective triage service, with a focus on effective crisis management and robust upstream prevention activity.
3. Lead in the procurement, development, management and future improvements to the Council’s housing advice and homelessness case management software systems.
4. Responsible for the management and monitoring of the housing advice and options service, including performance against KPIs, collection of relevant data and production of reports.
5. Ensure there are adequate service level agreements, data sharing agreements, partnership agreements and protocols in place for all key partner agencies of the housing advice and options service.
6. Manage, motivate and lead a team of officers working across the housing advice and options service to achieve service delivery and positive results.
7. Manage housing advice and options payments and budgets including forecasting expenditure, taking corrective action where pressures occur.
8. Develop, coordinate, and deliver the Council’s Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy and essential policies relating to the housing advice and options service, and assist and support the development of wider directorate / corporate transformations, strategies, plans, policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements reflecting good practice.
9. Actively promote / improve multi agency working / forums with internal and external partners / services to address housing needs and prevention and relief of homelessness.
10. 1 Complete related grant funding bids and develop and implement any associated projects and initiatives with the aim of improving the housing advice and options service and outcomes.
11. Assist in the drafting of reports and undertake presentations to all decision making/governance groups in relation to the housing advice and options service

 
You will need to have experience in a similar role in a Local Authority setting. 
Please get in touch for more information. 
 
This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:- 

• A Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to 

• An easy registration process (all done online) 

• Referral schemes and incentives  

• Ongoing compliance managed for you 

• Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more. 

Please contact Graham Leatham on 07484 513909 or email graham.leatham@pprsocialcare.co.uk for more information.  
We recruit across all areas of Housing, Public Sector, Planning and Local Government work. If you are experienced in this sector, and this isn’t the role for you, contact us about other roles.