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Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
About
We provide NHS care and treatment for people living in south east England. Our mental health services provide care and treatment for people with conditions such as psychosis, depression, anxiety, dementia and personality disorder. Our vision is to provide outstanding care and treatment you can be confident in.
Housing Team Lead
Accepting applications until: 23-Feb-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 23-Feb-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- TBC
- Town
- TBC
- Postcode
- BN11 1HS
- Major / Minor Region
- West Sussex
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Administration
Come and join us
We’re looking for people who share our values of compassion, accountability and optimism to help us provide high quality care for the patients, carers, families and communities we serve. We specialise in NHS mental health and learning disability services and we’re proud to make a difference every day.
At SPFT we put people first. We’ll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. You’ll have opportunities to learn, grow and gain new experiences to support your career, with access to lifelong learning and professional development.
We actively promote flexible working and understand how important work life balance is, especially in healthcare. Whether it’s part time hours, hybrid working or flexible start and finish times, we’ll explore what works for you and the role.
We recognise that AI is becoming part of daily life and you may choose to use it to help prepare your application. We welcome innovation but ask that anything you submit reflects your own abilities, experience and voice. AI can support how you describe your skills and experience, but it should never replace your own words as we want to get to know you.
We’re shaping a workplace where ideas are encouraged, technology supports you and everyone has a voice in how we improve. If that sounds like the kind of organisation you want to be part of, we’d love to hear from you.
Job overview
The Housing Team Lead will support the advancement of the Trust's ambition to embed housing expertise across Adult Mental Health services, ensuring that housing is recognised as a core component of an individual's recovery. Operating across Sussex, the role will lead a service which addresses homelessness and the impact this has on health outcomes. Working closely with multi-disciplinary services, the Housing Team Lead is responsible to ensure the delivery of specialist, high-quality services within available resources. The Team Lead will lead a coordinated response to individuals with complex housing and clinical needs through effective partnership working with key system partners across inpatient and community care pathways.
The successful candidate will work within an evolving landscape to develop housing practice within the organisation, ensuring consistent, ethical decision-making which is evidence-based and aligned to policy and legislation. The Housing Team Lead will drive service improvement, contributing to service development, training and continued equitable service delivery.
The Housing Team Lead will represent the service and the Trust at various operational and strategic forum, supporting system planning and multi-agency responses. Alongside providing insight into complex cases, supporting the development of innovative pathways which reduce homelessness and continue to place Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust as a leader of Housing services nationally.
Advert
The Housing Team Lead plays a critical role in delivering a high‑quality, patient‑centred housing service across Adult Mental Health Services, ensuring that people with complex needs receive timely, expert interventions which prevent homelessness.
You will coordinate the daily functioning of the Housing Team, providing clear direction to ensure high standards of practice.
You will maintain oversight of complex, high‑risk cases, offering expertise to resolve barriers to safe and appropriate accommodation, and ensuring that housing input is embedded within clinical care, supporting discharge planning across inpatient, community, crisis, and specialist pathways.
You will hold responsibility for the team’s operational performance, including delivery of key service outcomes, maintenance of accurate and high‑quality records, delivery of performance indicators, appraisal and professional development for all staff, ensuring compliance with Trust workforce, HR, safeguarding and governance requirements.
The Housing Team Lead will act as a central coordinating link between numerous stakeholders, fostering collaborative relationships that support early intervention, reduce delays, prevent homelessness, and ensure effective navigation of housing systems.
You will represent the service within multi‑agency forums, transformation workstreams, and operational discussions, ensuring that housing expertise contributes meaningfully to patient care pathways and service development.
Working for our organisation
We prioritise the welfare of our staff by providing regular supervision, mentoring, career planning , training and development opportunities, and other indivudal support that our staff need to create a positive work-life balance and to sustain their wellbeing.
We know that a successful work-life balance generates significant health-related benefits, which has a positive impact upon the care we provide. We also encourage flexible working which might include partial homeworking, part-time hours, or flexible start/finish times. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Our vision is to provide outstanding care and treatment; the people that we employ are at the heart of making this vision a reality. If you've got the passion, the belief, the drive and the talent to help us achieve our vision then we would like to hear from you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Housing Team Lead provides value-driven operational leadership to the Housing Team through oversight of activities delivered. This involves providing supervision, case oversight, performance monitoring to ensure that all staff work in accordance to Trust policies and procedures.
You will support the recruitment, induction and workforce development of the team, contributing to ongoing professionalisation of housing practice within the Trust, including leading elements of the Housing Team’s training and awareness programme delivered across Sussex to improve early identification of housing needs.
The post holder will ensure completion of mandatory training, professional development and training to create operational resilience within the team and increase housing literacy across the mental health teams.
The Housing Team lead will be responsible for recruitment, induction and workforce development through effective governance and performance, to promote the standardisation of housing practice and ensure the team deliver agreed and measurable outcomes. The post holder will oversee operational systems, reporting mechanisms and continuous improvement activity.
Working in partnership is central to the role, with partnership working with both internal and external stakeholders a key component to the success of the service. The Housing Team Leader will act as a key interface between Trust, Local Authority and VCSE services to collaboratively resolve complex system barriers and continue to develop the housing service.
You will be responsible for addressing operational issues, resolving escalations, monitoring service pressures, and contributing to digital developments and Standard Operating Procedure updates that enhance consistency, safety and efficiency across the team. Balancing strategic thinking with operational delivery, maintaining oversight of a busy frontline team, driving forward a integrated approach to mental health and housing that aligns with the Trust’s wider vision and ongoing transformation agenda.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to minimum diploma level with a relevant housing qualification or equivalent experience.
- Evidence of CPD
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of and demonstrable achievement in housing and homelessness practice
- Experience of providing professional support/supervision and motivation of staff
- Understanding of Health and Social Care Governance
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of relevant areas of housing policy and practice including the law relating to local housing authority homelessness duties and the allocation of social housing.
- Experience of managing staff
- Experience of partnership working within and across various statutory and non-statutory teams and agencies
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Carolyn Woods
- Job title
- Associate Director of Housing
- Email address
- [email protected]
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