Service Manager
Supported Accommodation - Age 16+
Location: Macclesfield/Edgeley/Stockport
Salary: £42,500
Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
Time Recruitment is supporting a well established group set up in 1995 supporting children to transition into independent living.
The group support young people to feel safe, build confidence, and move towards independence with the right guidance around them. This is a service where standards matter, safeguarding is taken seriously, and staff are backed by a strong head office team so the manager can focus on running a great service.
The role of Service Manager:
As Service Manager, you will lead a 16 plus supported accommodation service and set the culture day to day. You will make sure the team is consistent, safeguarding is strong, and each young person has a clear plan that helps them move forward.
This role suits someone who can balance care and control. Warm with young people, clear with staff, and confident with partners and compliance.
What you will be doing as a Service Manager here:
1. Lead the day to day running of the service, ensuring safe, structured, outcomes focused support
2. Be the safeguarding lead in practice, managing risk, incidents, and follow up actions with calm decision making
3. Line manage staff through supervision, coaching, support, and performance management
4. Ensure support plans, risk assessments, and daily recordings are strong and meaningful, not just paperwork
5. Build effective relationships with social workers, commissioners, education, health, and other professionals
6. Drive quality assurance, audits, and ongoing improvements to keep the service inspection ready
7. Manage rotas, staffing levels, training, and general service performance
8. Keep a clear focus on independence skills, routines, engagement, and progress for each young person
What we are looking for in a Service Manager:
Essential
9. Experience managing or deputising in supported accommodation, semi independent, or a closely related children and young people service
10. Strong safeguarding knowledge and confidence making decisions under pressure
11. Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management, or working towards
12. Confident leading teams and improving standards
13. Organised, reliable, and comfortable with compliance and service reporting
Desirable
14. Experience supporting care leavers or young people at risk of exploitation
15. Experience supporting a service through inspection, audit, or quality improvement
16. Full UK driving licence and flexibility to travel locally
Benefits for the Service Manager role:
17. £42,500 annual income with a stable Monday to Friday working pattern
18. Support from head office including HR and recruitment support so you can focus on service quality
19. Pension scheme
20. Relaxed dress code
21. Blue Light Card
22. Employee Welfare Programme via salary sacrifice, including retail discounts plus GP and counselling hotlines
23. Quarterly welfare raffle with prizes such as holidays, spa breaks, and cinema vouchers
To apply for the Service Manager role contact Sarah at Time Recruitment today or apply below.