About the role
Due to an internal promotion and the continued success of the Housing First project across Cambridgeshire an exciting opportunity for a Team Leader has arisen. This role is based in Huntingdon, managing a team across Fenland, Hunts and East Cambs, with some flexibility to work from home and other offices.
The project employs the Housing First approach, which is an internationally recognised model of successfully engaging and supporting individuals with multiple complex needs, who have a history of repeat homelessness/rough sleeping and supporting them to access and sustain their own tenancies and live independently.
Working in line with the Housing First England principles, you will be working with the Housing First Service Manager and Team Leader to provide leadership and line management to a team of Housing First Enhanced Navigators who are supporting individuals with complex needs, a history of homelessness/rough sleeping to access and sustain their own tenancy coordinating and providing a flexible, trauma informed, assertive engagement and positive risk-taking approach.
Housing First provision relies on staff being committed to the ethos, applying a proactive ‘can do, will do’ approach, that focuses on the long-term goal of supporting people to access and sustain tenancies and maximising connectivity with their local community.
This is a full time, fixed term post for 1 year. Continuation beyond this is dependent on securing further funding.
Please apply with your up to date CV and a personal statement ensuring you explain how you meet the personal specification, what interests you about the role and what you can bring to it.
If you would like any further information on the post please email Andrew Moore, Housing First Service Manager at andrew.moore@cambridgeshire.gov.uk in the first instance.
About you
You will have:
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The knowledge, skills and experience detailed in the attached JD-PS document.
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Proven track record of line management, objective setting and performance management.
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Proven track record of working collaboratively with internal and external providers and services. Ability to co-ordinate partners around a joint plan of support for individuals.
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Experience of front line working with adults who can have challenging behaviours and/or associated mental health illness, physical health problems, substance abuse issues, victims of domestic abuse, trauma, and who can be hard to engage.
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Be willing to work flexibly across Cambridgeshire as required.
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Be willing to take part in an out of hours on – call phone support service (for which a premium in addition to salary is paid)
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
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