Housing Independence Officer in Sheffield

Do you want to play a key role in preventing homelessness and improving outcomes for people across Sheffield? Are you passionate about partnership working, service improvement and delivering positive change?

Sheffield City Council's Homelessness and Supported Housing Service is recruiting three Housing Independence Officers to support the delivery of our priorities across homelessness prevention, rough sleeping and the commissioning of supported housing. These are exciting opportunities to join a supportive and ambitious team at a time of significant transformation across homelessness services.

Housing Independence Officer (Homelessness Partnerships & Strategy)

1 Full-Time Post

This role will support the implementation of Sheffield's Homelessness Prevention and Rough Sleeping Strategy, helping to drive partnership action and system-wide improvement across the city. Working in collaboration with statutory services, housing providers, health partners, voluntary and community organisations, and people with lived experience, you will coordinate activity, support delivery of strategic priorities, deliver commissioning requirements and help improve outcomes for people experiencing homelessness.

Key responsibilities include:

• Supporting delivery of the Homelessness Prevention and Rough Sleeping Strategy in collaboration with partners.
• Developing and maintaining effective partnerships across the homelessness system.
• Coordinating partnership meetings, action plans and improvement activity.
• Monitoring progress against agreed priorities and outcomes.
• Analysing data and intelligence to inform service development and strategic decision-making.
• Supporting innovation, collaboration and opportunities to secure external funding and resource.

This role is ideal for someone with strong partnership, project management and service improvement skills who enjoys bringing organisations together to achieve shared objectives.

Housing Independence Officer (Commissioning & Service Development)

2 Full-Time Posts

These roles will support the commissioning, contract management and continuous improvement of commissioned services. Working with providers, partners and internal stakeholders, you will help ensure services are high quality, deliver positive outcomes and provide value for money.

Key responsibilities include:

• Supporting commissioning and procurement activity, such as analysis of needs, trends and reviewing best practice.
• Managing contracts and monitoring provider performance.
• Supporting providers overcome system challenges, such as barriers to effective multi-agency responses.
• Investigating Serious Incidents, such as deaths in service.
  Working with commissioned services to drive quality and performance improvement.
• Supporting service redesign, mobilisation and transformation projects.
• Developing specifications, performance frameworks and monitoring arrangements.
• Support implementation of the Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act.
• Analysing service data and outcomes to inform future service development.
• Building strong relationships with providers and stakeholders to improve service delivery.

These roles are well suited to individuals with experience in commissioning, contract management, performance management, housing, supported housing or service improvement.

About You

We are looking for people who:

• Are passionate about preventing and responding to homelessness and improving people's lives.
• Have excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Can build effective partnerships and work collaboratively with a range of stakeholders.
• Can analyse information, use evidence and develop reports to support decision-making and service improvement.
• Can manage competing priorities and deliver work to deadlines.
• Are proactive, organised and solution focused.
• Can work independently while contributing positively to a supportive team environment.

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of people experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity.

You will join a team that is:

• Delivering major improvements across homelessness and supported housing services.
• Committed to collaboration, partnership working and continuous improvement.
• Focused on achieving better outcomes for customers and communities.

In return, we offer flexible working arrangements, opportunities for professional development and the chance to contribute to work that has a lasting impact across Sheffield.

Applying

Please indicate in your application whether you are applying for:

• Housing Independence Officer (Homelessness Partnerships & Strategy)
• Housing Independence Officer (Commissioning & Service Development)
• Or both roles.
• Interviews will be conduted Interviews on Friday 23^rd October and Monday 26^th October

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form. Sometimes, if lots of people apply, we might not be able to interview everyone who qualifies for the Guarantee. In these cases, we’ll interview the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyone and where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.