Job summary
The Housing Team Lead will support the advancement of the Trust's ambition to embed housing expertise across Adult Mental Health services, ensuring that housing is recognised as a core component of an individual's recovery. Operating across Sussex, the role will lead a service which addresses homelessness and the impact this has on health outcomes. Working closely with multi-disciplinary services, the Housing Team Lead is responsible to ensure the delivery of specialist, high-quality services within available resources. The Team Lead will lead a coordinated response to individuals with complex housing and clinical needs through effective partnership working with key system partners across inpatient and community care pathways.
The successful candidate will work within an evolving landscape to develop housing practice within the organisation, ensuring consistent, ethical decision-making which is evidence-based and aligned to policy and legislation. The Housing Team Lead will drive service improvement, contributing to service development, training and continued equitable service delivery.
The Housing Team Lead will represent the service and the Trust at various operational and strategic forum, supporting system planning and multi-agency responses. Alongside providing insight into complex cases, supporting the development of innovative pathways which reduce homelessness and continue to place Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust as a leader of Housing services nationally.
Main duties of the job
The Housing Team Lead plays a critical role in delivering a high-quality, patient-centred housing service across Adult Mental Health Services, ensuring that people with complex needs receive timely, expert interventions which prevent homelessness.
You will coordinate the daily functioning of the Housing Team, providing clear direction to ensure high standards of practice.
You will maintain oversight of complex, high-risk cases, offering expertise to resolve barriers to safe and appropriate accommodation, and ensuring that housing input is embedded within clinical care, supporting discharge planning across inpatient, community, crisis, and specialist pathways.
You will hold responsibility for the team's operational performance, including delivery of key service outcomes, maintenance of accurate and high-quality records, delivery of performance indicators, appraisal and professional development for all staff, ensuring compliance with Trust workforce, HR, safeguarding and governance requirements.
The Housing Team Lead will act as a central coordinating link between numerous stakeholders, fostering collaborative relationships that support early intervention, reduce delays, prevent homelessness, and ensure effective navigation of housing systems.
You will represent the service within multi-agency forums, transformation workstreams, and operational discussions, ensuring that housing expertise contributes meaningfully to patient care pathways and service development.
About us
We prioritise the welfare of our staff by providing regular supervision, mentoring, career planning , training and development opportunities, and other indivudal support that our staff need to create a positive work-life balance and to sustain their wellbeing.
We know that a successful work-life balance generates significant health-related benefits, which has a positive impact upon the care we provide. We also encourage flexible working which might include partial homeworking, part-time hours, or flexible start/finish times. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Our vision is to provide outstanding care and treatment; the people that we employ are at the heart of making this vision a reality. If you've got the passion, the belief, the drive and the talent to help us achieve our vision then we would like to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Housing Team Lead provides value-driven operational leadership to the Housing Team through oversight of activities delivered. This involves providing supervision, case oversight, performance monitoring to ensure that all staff work in accordance to Trust policies and procedures.
You will support the recruitment, induction and workforce development of the team, contributing to ongoing professionalisation of housing practice within the Trust, including leading elements of the Housing Teams training and awareness programme delivered across Sussex to improve early identification of housing needs.
The post holder will ensure completion of mandatory training, professional development and training to create operational resilience within the team and increase housing literacy across the mental health teams.
The Housing Team lead will be responsible for recruitment, induction and workforce development through effective governance and performance, to promote the standardisation of housing practice and ensure the team deliver agreed and measurable outcomes. The post holder will oversee operational systems, reporting mechanisms and continuous improvement activity.
Working in partnership is central to the role, with partnership working with both internal and external stakeholders a key component to the success of the service. The Housing Team Leader will act as a key interface between Trust, Local Authority and VCSE services to collaboratively resolve complex system barriers and continue to develop the housing service.
You will be responsible for addressing operational issues, resolving escalations, monitoring service pressures, and contributing to digital developments and Standard Operating Procedure updates that enhance consistency, safety and efficiency across the team. Balancing strategic thinking with operational delivery, maintaining oversight of a busy frontline team, driving forward a integrated approach to mental health and housing that aligns with the Trusts wider vision and ongoing transformation agenda.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Housing Team Lead provides value-driven operational leadership to the Housing Team through oversight of activities delivered. This involves providing supervision, case oversight, performance monitoring to ensure that all staff work in accordance to Trust policies and procedures.
You will support the recruitment, induction and workforce development of the team, contributing to ongoing professionalisation of housing practice within the Trust, including leading elements of the Housing Teams training and awareness programme delivered across Sussex to improve early identification of housing needs.
The post holder will ensure completion of mandatory training, professional development and training to create operational resilience within the team and increase housing literacy across the mental health teams.
The Housing Team lead will be responsible for recruitment, induction and workforce development through effective governance and performance, to promote the standardisation of housing practice and ensure the team deliver agreed and measurable outcomes. The post holder will oversee operational systems, reporting mechanisms and continuous improvement activity.
Working in partnership is central to the role, with partnership working with both internal and external stakeholders a key component to the success of the service. The Housing Team Leader will act as a key interface between Trust, Local Authority and VCSE services to collaboratively resolve complex system barriers and continue to develop the housing service.
You will be responsible for addressing operational issues, resolving escalations, monitoring service pressures, and contributing to digital developments and Standard Operating Procedure updates that enhance consistency, safety and efficiency across the team. Balancing strategic thinking with operational delivery, maintaining oversight of a busy frontline team, driving forward a integrated approach to mental health and housing that aligns with the Trusts wider vision and ongoing transformation agenda.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to minimum diploma level with a relevant housing qualification or equivalent experience.
- Evidence of CPD
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of and demonstrable achievement in housing and homelessness practice
- Experience of providing professional support/supervision and motivation of staff
- Understanding of Health and Social Care Governance
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of relevant areas of housing policy and practice including the law relating to local housing authority homelessness duties and the allocation of social housing.
- Experience of managing staff
- Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non-statutory teams and agencies
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to minimum diploma level with a relevant housing qualification or equivalent experience.
- Evidence of CPD
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of and demonstrable achievement in housing and homelessness practice
- Experience of providing professional support/supervision and motivation of staff
- Understanding of Health and Social Care Governance
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of relevant areas of housing policy and practice including the law relating to local housing authority homelessness duties and the allocation of social housing.
- Experience of managing staff
- Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non-statutory teams and agencies
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
