DERBYSHIRE RECOVERY PARTNERSHIP DRUG AND ALCOHOL SERVICE
Service Area
Derby Services
Town
Ilkeston
Status
Full-time
Contract Type
Permanent
Total Salary Pro-Rata
£27,000
Posted Date
05/09/2025
Closing Date
05/10/2025
Vacancy Reference Number
3948
Documents
* Team manager role profile (Word, 105.5kb)
Phoenix Futures is looking to recruit a passionate and solution focussed Team Manager for the Erewash team within our Derbyshire community drug and alcohol service.
About The Role
We are seeking a dynamic and compassionate Team Manager to lead our Drug and Alcohol team in Erewash. This is a pivotal role in supporting individuals affected by drug/alcohol use, helping them access the care and support they need to improve their health and wellbeing.
As Team Manager, you will oversee a multidisciplinary team delivering high-quality, person-centred interventions. You will be responsible for the Erewash team delivery, staff supervision, performance management, and ensuring compliance with clinical governance and safeguarding standards.
Your responsibilities will typically include having a visible presence within Ilkeston and Long Eaton, leading and managing the day-to-day operations of the drug and alcohol team in Erewash. You will provide clinical and operational supervision to your seven staff, ensuring safe and effective service delivery. You will monitor staff and team performance against KPIs and service targets, completing regular caseload audits of your staff team to monitor the quality of service delivery and data compliance, delivering targeted training and support as required. You will have a keen eye for detail when monitoring and evaluating data reports. You will develop strong working relationships both within the service's partnership and with local agencies, including health, social care, housing, and recovery oriented services. You will ensure people accessing our service receive timely, evidence-based interventions that are tailored to their individual needs and are underpinned by robust harm reduction advice, care planning and risk management. You will ensure your team work in a trauma informed way with people experiencing multiple and complex needs, delivering a high quality of treatment and care, in a compassionate and knowledgeable way. You will promote a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within your team and will possess a positive and can-do attitude to your work.
There will be plenty of opportunities to be innovative and creative as you develop existing group work provisions and initiatives, embedding co-production and involvement of people who use our services, in a meaningful and sincere way. Successful applicant will have a full and comprehensive induction, shadowing opportunities and training package.
Starting salary is £27,000 per year with annual increments subject to appraisal.
Location
This role will be based at our Ilkeston office with some visible management presence in our satellite base in Long Eaton. Working hours are 9am-5pm, Monday-Friday. Our Erewash staff team and county-wide management team offer a supportive and inclusive working environment, with plenty of opportunities for professional development and training.
About You
We're looking for someone who has some leadership experience within the field of drug and alcohol work, or in managing related health and social care services. The Erewash team desires a confident leader with excellent communication and organisational skills who is passionate about supporting vulnerable individuals and reducing health inequalities. They need to be knowledgeable in safeguarding, risk management, and clinical governance and able to work collaboratively across systems and with diverse stakeholders.
We welcome applications that demonstrate experience in team leadership and management and an understanding of drugs and alcohol and recovery-focused approaches.
About Us
We believe in being the best and that is why we constantly strive to learn and innovate, to challenge ourselves, to adapt and to work together with others who can bring valuable expertise. Join our Derbyshire team and we will support you to contribute to the creative development of our treatment and recovery approach to meet the needs of our service users, our commissioners and stakeholders. You'll also have access a range of learning and development opportunities to support your personal and professional development.
Phoenix Futures has more than 50 years' experience of developing and delivering pioneering substance misuse services. We believe in being the best and that is why we constantly strive to learn and innovate, to challenge ourselves, to adapt and to work together with others who can bring valuable expertise. Join us and we will support you to contribute to the creative development of our treatment and recovery approach to meet the needs of our service users, our commissioners and stakeholders. You'll also have access a range of learning and development opportunities to support your personal and professional development.
For more information about our Derbyshire Recovery Partnership drug and alcohol service, please visit -
Applications for this position can be made via www.phoenix-
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