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.

Main duties of the job

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.