Programme Lead for Rough Sleeping

Job description

Contract Terms

Contract Type: Full -Time, Permanent
Salary: PO8 £61,980 – £65,478 per annum
Interview: w/c 3rd February 2025
Closing Date: Sunday 19th January 2025

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the role

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced individual to coordinate our borough’s partnership response to rough sleeping. This role is crucial in ensuring the continuous development, improvement, efficiency, and success of both commissioned and directly delivered rough sleeping services. In this role you will:

• Lead the coordination of the borough’s partnership response on rough sleeping.
• Provide support to enhance the development and efficiency of rough sleeping services.
• Ensure effective planning and governance to analyse, monitor, and gather evidence on rough sleeping.
• Reflect and develop the borough’s programme of services, strategies, and initiatives.
• Manage service delivery, including the Osborne Grove Assessment Centre.
• Develop and implement commissioning and operational plans aligned with local, regional, and national strategic objectives

The Housing Related Support team is committed to providing high-quality services to some of the most vulnerable people in our community. We work closely with clients and other agencies, including local authorities, health services, and housing providers, to ensure that each person receives the support they need to achieve positive outcomes. The team is collaborative, compassionate, and always looking to improve the way we work to deliver the best results for our residents.

About you

We are looking for a candidate who is committed to making a real difference in the lives of individuals experiencing homelessness. You should be empathetic, resilient, and motivated, with the following qualifications and skills:

• Proven experience programme management
• Strong commitment to best practices in service delivery.
• Excellent partnership-building skills.
• Strategic thinker with a focus on improving outcomes for vulnerable people
• Knowledge of local, regional, and national strategies related to rough sleeping

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. 

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.

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