Full-Time Supported Housing Manager
Job Description
THE ROLE: Full-time (37.5 hours per week) / Permanent / Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm
Our mission is to help children and young people have a fair chance to be who they want to be. We do this by providing a safe home, increasing life skills and self-confidence, and improving emotional wellbeing and mental health. Are you a person-centred leader who thrives on getting the best results possible, leading a dynamic team to encourage positive change for young people?
If so, we have an exciting opportunity for a Supported Housing Manager to join us managing our West Sussex Transitional Housing service. Transitional Housing provides homes for young people in a range of settings across the county. Service is low to medium support for young people in a range of accommodations who are established in managing their own daily living skills and can keep themselves safe.
The focus of the work is to engage creatively with young people to identify, map and encourage growth of their strengths and talents as they develop into a sustainable and independent adulthood. As a Supported Housing Manager, you will be responsible for the daily operations, providing a high quality, safe, welcoming and secure supported housing accommodation for young people at risk whilst leading and developing the team. In delivering the role, you will be responsible for:
— Service Provision: Responsible for the daily operations of the service so that it meets the requirements of the service specification, and:
– reflects Psychologically Informed Environments (PIEs), Trauma Informed approaches and restorative practices
– identifies, maps and encourages the strengths and talents of each young person, enabling them to acquire the skills they need to lead independent and fulfilling lives
— Leadership and People Management: Lead and manage a team, recruiting and inducting new staff, and supporting their performance to ensure high standards of service at all times
— Partnerships: Develop and maintain effective working relationships with partner organisations that add value to the core, commissioned service (or have the potential to) attending relevant multi-disciplinary meetings as needed
— General: Be a member of the ‘on call’ rota to provide out of hours management support to projects in the wider locality
This role location is flexible with being to be based out of Horsham or Worthing with travel around West Sussex.
ABOUT YOU: We know that there are great candidates who will not fit everything described, or who have important skills we have not mentioned. If that is you, please do not hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself
You will already have experience of leading supported housing services, with proven experience in safeguarding in a supported housing environment. You will have a sound knowledge of the additional risks incurred by children and young people who have multiple, and complex needs due to their experiences and knowledge of trauma informed practice and how to create psychologically informed environments. In addition, you will be flexible, with the ability to work under pressure, multi-tasking and dealing with competing priorities.
How to Apply
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