Young Peoples Housing Service (YPHS) Team Manager

This is a full time permanent post. Exciting Opportunity to Join the Young People’s Housing Service. Do you want to lead a service that makes a real difference to young people’s lives and helps prevent youth homelessness? Hull City Council is looking for a confident, motivated and dynamic leader to join our Young People’s Housing Service (YPHS) as a Team Manager.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead a dedicated team delivering housing, homelessness prevention, supported accommodation and tenancy support services to young people across the city. Working at the heart of Early Help and Prevention, you will play a key role in ensuring young people receive the right support at the right time to prevent homelessness, improve wellbeing and help them make successful transitions into independent living. You will provide leadership, direction and professional oversight to a skilled team, driving high standards of practice, performance and safeguarding. You will oversee a range of housing and accommodation pathways, ensuring young people receive responsive, high-quality support tailored to their individual needs.

You will possess substantial knowledge of housing, homelessness and young people's services, alongside a proven ability to lead teams, manage performance, drive continuous improvement, and work effectively in complex multi-agency environments ensuring the voice of young people remains at the centre of everything we do. In return, you will have the opportunity to shape and influence services that make a real difference every day, working within a forward-thinking organisation that values innovation, partnership, learning, and ambition. If you are passionate about preventing homelessness, empowering young people, and leading an outstanding service, we would love to hear from you.

ROLE & PURPOSE OF JOB: To lead and manage a team delivering specialist housing services for young people in line with statutory duties under the Housing Act (1996) and Children Act (1989). Ensuring the provision of high-quality person-centred support that prevents homelessness, promotes safety and well-being, and achieves positive transitions to independence delivered through a range of targeted housing solutions within the Young Peoples Housing Service.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• To promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
• Strategy - Develop effective mechanisms to ensure the early identification of young people at risk of homelessness. Identify gaps or emerging needs to ensure that appropriate housing services and support are available and accessible at the earliest opportunity to prevent homelessness and ensure timely and proportionate responses to risk.
• Customer Focus - Works in partnership with colleagues, parents, carers, and young people to ensure that young people centred, relational based practice is the principal standard and framework for all work undertaken with children, young people and families.
• Performance Management – To ensure effective case management, recording systems and quality assurance processes are in place with robust supervision and management oversight arrangements to ensure and achieve effective reporting against the Early Help performance framework.
• Leadership – To motivate staff in order to ensure the provision of excellent customer service and achievement of high professional standards and meeting or exceeding of performance targets through the creation of team and individual development plans.
• Statutory Obligations – To deliver on the implementation of legislative / policy changes in order to meet the councils’ statutory obligations to young people and care leavers threatened with and or at risk of homelessness.
• Risk Management – Act as the safeguarding lead for the team ensuring timely reporting, escalation and management of safeguarding concerns in line with procedures.
• Decision making - Responsible for the effective discharge of the council’s statutory obligations to young people who are at risk of or threatened with homelessness in accordance with relevant legislation to enable rehousing solutions.
• Development Learning & Performance To lead the management and professional development of a team creating a positive learning and working environment, promoting, and encouraging a culture of continuous improvement to develop an outstanding service.
• Service Delivery - Directly Manages the YPHS Shared Accommodation and Gateway supported housing schemes and associated landlord and tenancy management functions including allocations and transitions.

Compensation Grades: GRADES 10. Pay Ranges: £45,091.00 - £48,226.00

Benefits of Working of Hull City Council:

• A competitive salary
• An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Initially 23 days annual leave depending on length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year, and three additional days off, one in May/August and one during the Christmas/New year period
• Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods
• Supportive and forward-thinking culture
• Great career development opportunities

Please ensure that you complete and submit your application by midnight prior to the closing date. We are committed to increasing the diversity, equality, and inclusion within our workforce to represent the people we serve and build an environment in which everyone can feel like they belong. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.