We are excited to be recruiting into our Charles England House team. A great opportunity to move into a leadership role, creating and shaping a team in a small, supported housing project, empowering a team to guide young people towards their goals of independent living, including single people, couples and young parents. If you have the skills to lead a service, shape and develop a team, and desire to see young people succeed, we want to hear from you. Please find full details of how to apply via our website in the advert below. The deadline for application submissions is 23:59, Wednesday 12 November 2025. We are striving to better represent the young people we support and therefore are particularly keen to increase applications from minoritized ethnic groups, we also encourage applications from people with relevant lived experience. If you need an adjustment to be made to any part of the recruitment process, please let us know as soon as possible. Who are we? We are a leading youth homelessness charity based in the Southwest, working with over 1,500 young people. At 1625ip we are driven by Social Justice and Passion: we strive to do something that matters and take pride in seeing the results of our work in social outcomes and improving young people’s lives. What are we looking for: You’re a confident and compassionate leader who brings out the best in others - coaching, developing and supporting your team to thrive and work well together. You’re driven by a belief that young people deserve the highest quality support, and you inspire that same commitment in your team. You can confidently, or are eager to learn to, manage the practicalities of rent collection, maintenance, void turnaround, health and safety and more. You have a solid understanding of the legislation affecting supported housing and care leavers. You’re dedicated to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of every young person and child and know how to put this into practice. You combine a sharp eye for detail with strong analytical skills, using both to oversee budgets, track KPIs and inform decision-making. You will be in the Charles England House Team and your line manager will be our Programme Manager. At 1625ip we are led by our Competency Development Framework. This connects our values to our behaviours in everything we do and gives us the tools to develop. The framework ensures our recruitment is better informed, applications and interviews are behaviourally based and job profiles are developed on the ‘how’ of a job. Contract details Hours per week: 40 (this represents full time hours) Contract type: Permanent Pay: £32,597 - £34,434 The location: You will be based in Charles England House in Patchway, South Gloucestershire. There is free parking at the scheme and great access to the M5. A few benefits at 1625ip In return for your dedication, we offer: A generous annual leave entitlement of 30 days per annum plus all Bank Holidays. Employee Health Cash Plan with HSF. A supportive and approachable team with an emphasis on colleague wellbeing. “1625 Independent People is an amazing organisation, and I feel very lucky to work here”, Colleague Wellbeing Survey 2024. “I couldn’t be happier with the opportunities and support I have received in my career progression that has led me to my dream job!” See what other colleagues have said about their career development with us, on the vacancy page of our website. 1625ip is a Disability Confident Employer. Important dates Application deadline closes: 23:59, Wednesday 12 November 2025 If you have not heard from us by the end of the day on Friday 14 November 2025, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Interviews are on Thursday 20 November 2025 Application information Ready to see yourself in this rewarding role? We can’t wait to hear from you. Please click here to access the job pack. This includes the criteria that will be assessed at application and interview. Please click here to download the application form. You will be asked to answer 6 questions at the end of the Word application form. These are required to ensure your application can be shortlisted. Please note the online e-application form cannot be saved so we recommend you prepare your Word application form before you start filling in the e-form. Please get in touch with us if a hard copy of the application form would be preferred. We will organise a time for you to collect it from and return it to Kingsley Hall (our main office in Old Market). An online application will then be created for you. Contact us To have an informal chat about the role, please contact Chris Marshall, [email protected] If you have any queries, please email [email protected] For support with your application, skills, training and your career Skills Connect ’s dedicated advisors who can assist you Equitable opportunities for everyone We believe those with a criminal record should have an equal chance to become employees or volunteers and encourage applications. As an organisation who safeguard and promote the safety and welfare of children, young people and adults at risk, any job offer will depend on a satisfactory DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check. Successful candidates will need to provide our organisation with sufficient documentation to prove ID. We comply fully with the DBS code of practice and undertake to treat all applications for positions fairly. For successful candidates with a criminal record, a risk assessment process will take place with the recruiting manager. We also pride ourselves on being an equitable opportunities employer for everyone regardless of age, disability, gender identity, race, religion and beliefs, sex and sexual orientation. We have committed to being a Disability Confident Employer, and have made the Menopause Workplace, Mental Health at Work, and Bristol Equality Charter pledges. Please see our Policies section on the website, for further information.