Job Introduction
Starting salary for this role is £47,181
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Principal Housing Options Manager – Rough Sleeping
Full time
This role leads on our response to rough sleeping across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, working to prevent rough sleeping and ensuring proactive and creative responses to working with customers who are experiencing rough sleeping.
This diverse role includes operational management of the council’s rough sleeping services including part 7 assessments, facilitating a multi-agency response to end rough sleeping and homelessness, leading a proactive and sustainable homeless prevention model and managing our Someone Safe to Stay accommodation projects.
You will bring ideas and enthusiasm to the service during a time of major challenge from rising homelessness, cost of living and renters reform whilst delivering savings through creative efficiency and effective working practices. You will be expected to work together closely with partners to deliver a modern, integrated service and efficient customer care offer that delivers the right service at the right time.
You need to be collaborative, resilient and passionate about developing and delivering frontline housing services and have an excellent understanding of the rapidly changing landscape around homelessness, housing options and rough sleeping– with the skills and expertise to match. You will need to think creatively and innovatively and lead the service in delivering person-centred and trauma informed approaches to working with a customer group with diverse and multiple needs.
BCP has a higher than average number of long term rough sleepers. Identifying effective solutions and leading multi-agency responses to engage with individuals with long term histories of rough sleeping will be a critical focus of this role.
You will have the ability to build effective and sustainable relationships with different stakeholders, including colleagues, elected members and partner organisations. Furthermore, you will be resilient, which will help drive you through the challenges you meet.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for the role
For more information, please contact Laura Paterson, Service Manager for Housing Options laura.paterson@bcpcouncil.gov.uk
Please note, this role is not eligible for visa sponsorship and we can only consider applicants with existing right to work in the UK.
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About BCP Council
BCP Council provides services to a diverse community of 400,000 residents and employs more than 5,000 people. Our area includes over 15 miles of beautiful world-renowned coastline. We can offer career defining roles to transform and improve services. By working with us, you can help deliver a vision of a thriving, word-class, prosperous and inclusive place for generations to come.
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DBS
BCP Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the community and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. Applicants to this post will be required to complete the appropriate level of Disclosure & Barring Service Check. Please refer to the Role Profile for more details.
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