Accommodation Assessment & Lettings Team Leader

Posted 06 May 2025
LocationLewisham SE13 United Kingdom
Job type Full time
Sector Government & Public Sector

Job description

5-6 month contract with a local Authority


Job Purpose

  • To manage a team of frontline officers who arrange emergency and temporary accommodation placements and appropriate referrals into supported accommodation, ensuring all placements and referrals are carried out in a timely manner, making the best use of all available housing stock at all times.

 

Key Duties/Accountabilities

  • Adapt the planned delivery of services to ensure changing community and customer needs.
  • Monitor and review service outcomes ensuring effective delivery of personal and team objectives.
  • Ensure the continuous improvement in services using creative and informative inventions as well as effective performance and quality management.
  • Plan, deploy and co-ordinate people resources to meet changing operational needs.
  • Ensure services meet statutory and identified organisational standards and regulations.

 

Essential Experience Needed

  • Proven experience of designing and implementing robust and efficient business processes that have delivered tangibly improved services and dramatically improved efficiency.
  • Good knowledge of budget management and delivering services within budget.


Additional information to note

  • This role is 35 working hours per week.
  • This role requires Basic DBS.​

 

The role closes on 18/05/25