GM Housing First Team Leader

Who we are:

Jigsaw Homes Group is one of the largest housing groups in England with more than 35,000 homes across the North West and East Midlands.

We provide quality, low-cost housing and play a wider role in making sure our residents thrive in their homes and benefit from living in healthy, sustainable communities.

About the department:

The people we support are a diverse group of individuals with a variety of support needs and a broad range of interests.

Our Jigsaw Support Team is passionate about improving the quality of lives of our residents by providing an excellent standard of accommodation and support packages to help them move onto living independently. We want people who care as much as we do about delivering an excellent service to our customers. In return you will be joining an innovative forward thinking team that encourages and supports success.

Role Information:

This role is Fixed Term until 31.3.24 with continuation funding to be confirmed to 31.3.25

Greater Manchester Housing First is an innovative partnership consisting of housing, health and third sector partners working together to deliver a ground-breaking service to some of the most vulnerable members of society. This post is within Jigsaw Support’s GMHF delivery team, working across the boroughs of Tameside, Oldham and Stockport.

As a Greater Manchester Housing First Team Leader, you will be responsible for the day to day delivery of the Greater Manchester Housing First contract and supervising the delivery of a trauma informed, holistic service with a high level of fidelity to Housing First principles.

You will provide leadership and guidance to Housing First Workers promoting a positive culture and partnership working.

Jigsaw Benefits

You will be rewarded with not only knowing that you have helped someone access a much-needed new home, or take that first step on the property ladder but also with some great benefits.

Working as part of Jigsaw Homes Group means you have the option to choose flexible working that suits you as well as the organisation, allowing for a great work/life balance.

You can choose to work 35 hours per week between the hours of 7am and 7pm, Monday to Friday OR 35 compressed hours per week, between 7am and 7pm, over 4 days – with 50% of your time working from home upon completion of a satisfactory probation period.

You will also get:

• 27 working days holiday per annum (based on a 5-day working week) plus bank holidays, plus additional days after 2 years continuous service (to a maximum of 5 days) and the option to buy/sell up to 5 days extra per year,
• Incremental salaried pay
• occupational sick pay,
• on-site gyms,
• access to the Social Housing Pension Scheme,
• Simply Health membership,
• enhanced maternity/paternity leave,
• training/development opportunities.

Provisional date for interviews is Wednesday 28th June 2023

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early should we receive a sufficient number of CV's