We are working closely with local authority in Lambeth to assist with the appointment of a  Team Manager, on a 3-months contract, highly likely to be extended at clients discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.

Rate of Pay: £28.79- £37.97 per hour

Summary:

The Team Manager – Homelessness Prevention will provide operational leadership, quality assurance, and professional oversight for a team delivering homelessness prevention and relief services within Lambeth's Housing Needs Directorate. The role will support the Council's transformation agenda, delivering a prevention-first, resident-centred, trauma-informed service focused on lawful decision-making, high-quality casework, and sustainable housing outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Allocate work, manage workflow, oversee triage, assessments, prevention, and relief casework, including rapid relief work where required.
• Ensure homelessness assessments, Personal Housing Plans (PHPs), statutory decisions, notifications, and duty changes are lawful, evidence-based, timely, and defensible.
• Provide escalation and oversight for complex, sensitive, high-risk, or contentious cases involving safeguarding, domestic abuse, exploitation, vulnerability, public protection, or homelessness risks.
• Quality assure assessments, case notes, statutory decisions, suitability assessments, and case interventions to ensure consistency, legality, and professional standards.
• Address performance concerns constructively and promote continuous learning, accountability, and service improvement.

Qualifications:

• Degree-level qualification or equivalent professional experience in Housing, Public Services, Social Policy, Social Care, Law, Community Development, or a related discipline.
• Evidence of professional knowledge and capability equivalent to a Level 5 qualification demonstrated through leadership experience, statutory decision-making, or structured management training is essential.

Essentials:

• Significant experience delivering homelessness prevention, homelessness casework, housing advice, or statutory housing assessments.
• Experience managing complex homelessness, safeguarding, domestic abuse, vulnerability, mental ill-health, exploitation, or tenancy sustainment cases.
• Experience conducting face-to-face interviews, triage, casework assessments, and managing sensitive conversations with vulnerable residents.

Please note:

• You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice.
• You should have right to work in U.K
• This role requires a Standard DBS

Disclaimer: Brackenberry Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary. Incase the role requires an enhanced DBS, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

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