Head of Housing

Location:

Region: London
Country: United Kingdom

Role:

  • Industry: Social Housing
  • Job Type: Contract / Freelance
Rate: £400 - £600 per day

Application Details:

Start Date: ASAP
Expiry Date: 15/11/2024
Job Reference: HOH15/08/24_1729268322

Head of Housing

Reporting to the Service Director for Housing and Strategy, you will provide strong leadership and motivate the team to reach operational excellence. Meanwhile, we expect you to continually challenge the status quo and existing performance levels, by exploring new ways of working and identifying ways in which we can improve our services for the residents of Buckinghamshire which is driven through the established Housing Improvement Board and Programme. Face the same financial pressures seen nationally around rising Temporary Accommodation costs and volumes. This role is key to helping us tackle this problem and develop short/medium/long term solutions to delivering Temporary Accommodation.

As a member of the Housing and Strategy Service Directorate Leadership team, you will contribute proactively to the collective leadership of the council, working collaboratively with Members, council services, partners, and stakeholders, to deliver the councils objectives and priorities.

You will be an excellent manager with experience of leading and managing a Housing function in a large public sector organisation bringing a collaborative and transparent approach to the role. You will support teams in housing which operate in a high pressure environment both in terms of volume of work, but also in the complexity of the issues those with housing insecurity face.

Partnership working will be key in this role, and you will need to be able to demonstrate a strong track record of building and maintaining relationships with internal and external partners. These include (but are not limited to) Adults Social Care and Children's Social Care at the Council, NHS, and other related charity sector groups. Almost all work undertaken in housing is done in partnership with other organisations and council teams. It is essential that the Head of Housing can take a strategic and proactive approach to work with others to deliver good outcomes for households and residents.

Naturally, you will have strong political acumen and be able to work closely with Members to deliver a shared vision. You will have a passion for supporting people and a drive to achieve the best outcomes for some of our most vulnerable residents facing housing insecurity and homelessness.

g2 Recruitment are committed to equality of opportunity for all applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships or any other characteristic protected by law.

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L&D Team

We are very lucky that g2 recruitment see Learning and Development as a vital part of a consultants journey which is why we have 4 people in the team who you will work very closely with from day 1 in your career. The team are on hand to guide you through your career at all levels and provide extra support working closely with the management team to give all consultants the best chance of success.  

Our Three Pillars of Training

Academy:
Week 1 is a series of remote sessions to learn all things systems, followed by a 1 week academy process which is a mixture of classroom and deskside this will be in one of our UK offices and usually consists of 3-8 other consultants all starting their journey together.

Experienced Modules:
These are a variety of sessions curated by us designed to support consultants as they are progressing through the career ladder, the aim is to ensure consultants at all levels have access to L&D.

Junior Management Programme:
Ran by our head of L&D this programme is designed to support junior managers as they start their management career. This involves things like personal branding, time management and ends in a business plan which is presented to members of the Exec board and senior management team.

Jaz D’Avola
Head of Learning & Development

Jaz joined g2 Recruitment in 2013.

She now leads our Learning and Development programme, transferring the knowledge and wisdom she learnt as a recruiter to the new generation of talent.

Imani WIlliams
Learning and Development Consultant

Imani joined g2 Recruitment in 2022.

His role involves developing individuals in all areas of the business, varying from inducting and onboarding consultants to working with them 1 to 1 to identify areas of development.  He aids with growth of L&D across the business, watching consultants experience and develop.

Meghan Mcloughlin
Learning and Development Consultant

Meghan joined g2 in 2023 as an L&D consultant, Working in recruitment for 6 years, her role is to  help consultants at all levels to upskill and focus on development points. This could be anything from sales calls or candidate calls to organisation improvements.

Kane Gray
Systems & Academy Trainer

Kane joined g2 in April 2023 as an Academy & Systems Trainer.

His role involves teaching the consultants that are new to the company the foundations of recruitment and our systems before then helping them to upskill in areas specific to each consultant. Working closely with different consultants and watching them implement the feedback, apply it, and then benefit off the back of it.

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