Housing Solutions & Support Lead Gr K

Job Category : Housing
Location : Royal Borough of Kingston
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £29.92

This position is hybrid- at least 2 days in Kingston Guildhall 2

The post holder will play a key role in shaping and managing the provision of the Council’s Housing Solutions Service and Housing Support service ensuring it fulfils its contractual and legal obligations.
To ensure the effective and efficient operation of the Housing Solutions and Support Team, managing all aspects of the housing support, move on, solutions and homelessness services and ensuring all statutory functions are provided to a high quality including advice and assistance, homelessness assessment, reviews, placements and housing under relevant legislation. It will also be responsible for supervising the provision of a cross tenure resettlement service to vulnerable households
Work to reduce rough sleeper numbers in the borough through forming good local relationships with key partners and developing the Rehousing Pathway to focus on moving people to settled accommodation quickly and continue to develop the rough sleeping pathway.
To develop and implement initiatives to assess and record housing need in the Borough, prevent homelessness, assist single homeless people and promote re-housing opportunities arising in the private housing sector.
To assist the Corporate Head of Community Housing with all aspects of service planning, policy support and administration as well as leading on team plans, action plans and reviews of the service, ensuring the implementation of initiatives to improve the solutions and support service