Head of Supported Housing

  • Principal People Recruitment
  • Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
  • Sep 01, 2025
Full time Real Estate

Job Description

Are you a strategic leader with a passion for driving change and improving lives?
This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing organisation that delivers innovative, person-centred housing and support services across the UK.

Having successfully placed many of the other Heads within the business, we ve seen first-hand the expertise, collaboration, and genuine impact this team delivers. This is a brilliant chance to step into a role where your work will truly make a difference.

As Head of Supported Housing, you ll take on a national role leading operational performance, safeguarding, and stakeholder engagement. You ll drive the mobilisation and growth of Supported Exempt Rent services, embedding trauma-informed approaches into delivery and shaping solutions that prevent homelessness and improve lives.

Your focus will include:
  • Driving operational excellence and continuous improvement.
  • Overseeing budgets and ensuring financial sustainability.
  • Leading the mobilisation of Supported Exempt Rent services.
  • Building strong partnerships with commissioners, charities, and employers.
  • Embedding safeguarding, compliance, and resident voice initiatives.
  • Inspiring and developing high-performing, geographically dispersed teams.
About you:
You ll be an experienced leader from the supported housing or homelessness sector, with a proven track record of managing large, complex services. Confident in housing law, safeguarding, and benefits systems, you ll bring a collaborative, solution-focused leadership style and a genuine passion for creating better outcomes for people facing homelessness and multiple disadvantage.

Ready to make a difference? We d love to hear from you.