Rehousing Team Manager

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the role

You will lead a team of officers with a remit to support families to move out of temporary accommodation and into more suitable housing solutions, improving lives whilst reducing costs to the council. Much of your of time will be spent motivating, challenging and enabling the team to think creatively, work flexibly and achieve ambitious outcomes.

You will be responsible for demonstrating the success of the team, confidently drawing or a variety of tools such as data, reports and case studies to do so. You will build effective relationships with a variety of partner services and organisations, to maximise opportunities to resolve families’ homelessness.

You will be joining a team committed to making a positive difference to people’s lives at the start of an exciting change in approach to supporting households in temporary accommodation. Whilst working in the team will be challenging and fast paced, you’ll be supported to achieve success, developing new skills and experience along the way.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

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About you

You will be passionate about helping people and a champion of delivering people-centred services but able to maintain a clear focus on achieving outcomes. You will have demonstrable leadership skills, necessary to support a new team to thrive, learn from experience and adapt accordingly.

You will have significant experience of assessing housing need in a Local Authority context and/or supporting households to move out of temporary accommodation. You will have a good understanding of housing and homelessness law and practice and be able to provide casework advice to officers