Project Manager - Family Homeless Centre

Serving the Liverpool City Region, The Whitechapel Centre’s mission is to prevent and resolve homelessness, social exclusion and housing poverty by providing practical, realistic, tailored support so that each person can find a route out of homelessness, maintain a home and achieve their individual potential.

We are now looking for someone with strong leadership and people management skills, the drive to make things happen and a real commitment to working in partnership to achieve results to join our team at the Belvidere Family Homeless Service. This service is run in partnership with Shap Limited and provides 24hr housing support and housing management services to families who are owed a statutory housing duty in 16 self-contained units.

The objectives of the service are to:

• work in partnership with the Local Authority to enable it to discharge its statutory regarding Homeless Families and those at risk of Homelessness;
• increase the independence of service users and therefore levels of planned move on;
• reduce families’ length of stay in temporary accommodation;
• reduce levels of repeat homelessness.

This post is being offered as a fixed term contract for one year in the first instance. 

Please note: we do not accept CVs.  You can request an application pack via our Info address box at Whitechapelcentre . co . uk or by ringing 207 8649. Packs can also be downloaded from our website at www.whitechapelcentre.co.uk.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 5pm on Wednesday 20^th June 2018. 

This post is subject to an Enhanced level check by the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS).