Team Leader - Allocations
| Posting date: | 19 March 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 April 2025 |
| Location: | Tameside, OL6 7RL |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75690804 |
Summary
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Grade H. Scale 29 - £38,626 to Scale 31 - £40,476
Hours Per Week: 36 hours
Base Location: Tameside Housing Advice
Assessment Date: To be arranged
The Role
This role is based at Tameside Housing Advice. This service provides information, advice and housing options for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. As a Partnerships Team Leader, the role will sit within the social housing allocations team. The post will involve daily case management and oversight of the housing register, applications, nominations and allocations into social housing, alongside supporting your fellow colleagues in other areas of the homeless prevention service.
As a team leader you will be a key part of the management team at the stand-alone Housing Advice service, supporting and developing the team and providing management cover for other areas of the service as required.
About You
You will be able to think creatively in finding solutions to housing challenges.
Be able to multitask and balance competing priorities
Be focused and outcome driven whilst ensuring a person-centred approach is in place
Have great negotiation skills
Be able to use Microsoft packages, specifically the use of Excel spreadsheets
Have knowledge of housing legislation/regulations
Identify new opportunities
Work collaboratively with all partners in Tameside and across Greater Manchester
About Us
At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.
We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.
Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.
This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English.
Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.
Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here
For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager Claire Hine on 07970456377 or Claire.hine@tameside.gov.uk
Reference Number: DPT674
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