Strategic Lead - Rough Sleepers & Single

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Please note this vacancy is only available to Birmingham City Council employees.

Strategic Lead Rough Sleepers

Permanent

Grade

Consultation grade subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review

Working 36.5 hours per week

Are you looking for a challenging role where you can make a difference

Are you ready to make a meaningful impact within the rough sleeping space during one of the most critical periods of Birminghams futureAlready Europes youngest major city and one of the most diverse in the UK we want nothing less than to be the best.

In a city facing unprecedented financial challenges Birmingham City Council is seeking a dynamic individual who can demonstrate the expertise determination and unwavering resilience required to strategically and operationally lead Rough Sleeping and Single Homeless Provision.

Birmingham City Council is the largest local authority social landlord in Europe with a stockprofile of just under 60000 properties. The Housing Solutions Service is the front door for citizens at risk of homelessness and those in housing crisis.

Presently there are many external factors affecting homelessness and rough sleeping in our city from legislative change to the rise in the costofliving fuel poverty and the national housing crisis.

You will have a successful track record of leading managing and motivating large diverse staff groups with the ability to build and maintain a highperformance culture. You will have a solid experience of managing commissioned services and operating in multiagency settings.

You will be confident and have experience in building strong partnership working arrangements with a range of stakeholders i.e. Council departments within City Housing and across the Local Authority government departments contractorsexternal partners and agencies.

We are looking for a candidate who can ensure that the service provides expert housing advice and solutions; conducts thorough assessments and investigations; timely makes referrals to other LAs and support agencies; delivers high quality interventions to those who sleep rough and makes informed homeless and homeless review decisions within statutory targets.

We are looking for someone who has achieved significant success at a senior level within the housing and/or homelessness sector a strategic thinker who has the ambidexterity to get close to the detail and empower teams to improve performance and embrace change.

We are particularly keen to see applications from people who are exceptional leaders and can confidently develop and empower staff in a changing environment and can provide the inspiration for others to make a positive difference to citizens lives.

Key attributes for this role are:

• Successful track record of leading managing and motivating large staff groups
• Passionate about delivering exceptional housing and outreach services and improving the employee experience
• Solid understanding of structural systematic and individual causes of homelessness
• Successful track record of all aspects of commissioning
• Ability to work with various internal and external stakeholders and funders
• Understanding of homelessness and housing legislative frameworks
• Good experience of leading change programmes within a housing or support environment.

Please upload your uptodate CV via the attachments part of your application this is required for shortlisting. Unfortunately we cannot consider any applications without a CV attached.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the communities we serve. Our data tells us that for this level of role ethnic minorities are underrepresented and therefore we will use positive action to support us to achieve diverse shortlists. This may mean that recruitment times are a little longer but we think this is worth it to achieve our aim.

Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer andwe arecommitted to employing retaining and developing all of our people.

We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments additional support accessibility needs or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.

We are dedicated to supporting internal mobility and the development of our people. As such applications from internal employees and those under S118 will be given priority and reviewed before external applications are considered.

For any informal enquires please contact:Paulina Colomby

We welcome applications from people with caring responsibilities and flexible working options will be considered.

Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance withUK Home Office requirements before any employment offer can be confirmed.

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