Voids and Repair Team Leader

Job description

Contract terms

Starting salary: PO3 (£45,750 – £49,056)
Work location: Alexandra House, 10 Station Road, Wood Green, London, N22 7TR
Hours per week: 36 per week
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: Sunday, 22nd March 2026 at 23:59
Expected interview date: W/c 6th April 2026

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

Haringey Council’s Housing Delivery team is at the forefront of delivering the borough’s top priority programme: building a better future through housing. 

As part of this initiative, the Council is actively refurbishing a significant number of recently acquired and existing void properties, ensuring they meet high standards for local families to occupy. This vital work is led by the Council’s Aftercare Service, which has a proven track record of efficiently turning around voids through close collaboration with both in-house teams and external contractors. This is a new role within an award winning team: the winning candidate will have the opportunity to shape the organisation and delivery of the next phase of the borough’s voids programme.  

About the team

Our housing delivery team is award-winning, delivering new homes across the borough.  The aftercare service has a specific role in managing our new build homes, as well as delivering important voids works to recently acquired properties. This is still a new team, with an expanding portfolio of roles and programmes.  

About you

We’re seeking a proactive and experienced Team Leader to join our dynamic Voids and Repairs service. In this pivotal role, you’ll lead the delivery of high-quality repair and refurbishment works to void properties within our Aftercare Service, ensuring homes are prepared to a high standard for incoming tenants. You’ll coordinate a range of activities—including responsive repairs, planned maintenance, and full refurbishments—with precision and care, and help shape how the voids programme going forward.  

You’ll be responsible for managing contractor performance, ensuring all works meet our service standards, quality expectations, health and safety regulations, and budgetary requirements. If you’re a confident leader with a keen eye for detail and a passion for delivering outstanding housing outcomes, we’d love to hear from you. We are looking for someone with ideas as well as motivation 

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 of 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.  

Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders.  Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk