Join our team at Centrepoint as a Housing First Service Manager, where you'll play a pivotal role in maximizing opportunities for young people to achieve positive outcomes and lead happy, healthy, and fulfilling lives. As a Service Manager, you'll be at the forefront of delivering Housing First services tailored to the unique needs of young individuals. This is a chance to make a real difference and be part of a supportive and dynamic organization committed to creating trauma-informed services that prioritize the safety and well-being of young people.
Please note that due to the dispersed nature of our services, a valid driver's license and access to car will be required for this role.
What You Will Be Doing:
In this role, you will be responsible for supervising and developing team members, providing consistent leadership, and fostering a culture of excellence in service delivery. Your duties will include:
- Leading a team to build psychologically informed relationships with young people
- Providing leadership in line with Centrepoint's values and promoting a culture of teamwork
- Proactively engaging with young people to develop positive relationships and inspire them daily
- Driving continuous improvement to ensure exemplary service standards
- Co-producing holistic support plans and risk management strategies with team members
- Meeting and exceeding Key Performance Indicators while maintaining the highest standards of safeguarding practice
- Forging and maintaining effective partnerships with stakeholders and support agencies
- Creating trauma-informed services centered around the safety and well-being of young people
- Demonstrating commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion in all aspects of service delivery
What We Will Be Looking for From You:
To excel in this role, you should possess the following qualities and experience:
Knowledge and Experience:
- Experience in delivering services to people with complex needs within the Housing First model or similar floating support/ assertive outreach to people with complex needs and challenging behaviour.
- Understanding of approaches suitable for working with young people with complex needs, including learning disabilities, mental health issues, substance use, and challenging behavior
- Demonstrated experience in managing teams in a fast-paced environment and navigating challenging situations professionally
- Proven ability to build effective working relationships with service users, colleagues, and stakeholders across sectors
- Experience in raising safeguarding concerns and implementing associated action plans
- Leadership experience in delivering trauma-informed services for young people
Skills:
- Strong interpersonal, networking, and relationship-building skills
- Exceptional leadership and people management abilities
- High level of numeracy, literacy, and IT proficiency
- Excellent time-management and prioritization skills
- Proficiency in written communication and report writing
What we offer in return...
In return for your efforts, as our Service Manager, you’ll receive a competitive salary, excellent training and development, and a host of staff benefits including:
- 25 days of annual leave per year, rising by one day per year to a maximum of 27 days
- Excellent training package to ensure you have the skills and knowledge to build a new career
- Employer pension contributions of 4%
- Clear career progressions, linked to portfolio work, that enables movement up the pay scale
- Access to Cycle 2 Work loan scheme
- An interest-free travel loan
At Centrepoint we challenge the discrimination within society that contributes to youth homelessness, and we are just as committed to fairness and equality within Centrepoint itself. We are passionate about ensuring all of our colleagues are made to feel included in the work we do and that we value the rich diversity within the organization.
We are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications regardless of sex, gender, race, age, belief in any religion and none, gender identity, ethnic origin, class, sexuality, nationality, appearance, unrelated criminal activities, disability, responsibility for dependents, part time or shift workers, being HIV positive or living with AIDS, lived experience of homelessness or using young people’s services and any other matter which causes a person to be treated with injustice.
Centrepoint’s policy is to recruit, employ and promote people on the basis of their suitability for the work to be performed, and to this end, our aim is to ensure that all applicants, employees and volunteers receive equal treatment.
Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to join our team as a Service Manager, click ‘Apply’ now!