AddressJob Posted: 2 April 2024
- Contract Term: Permanent
- Location: Isle of Wight
- Contract Type: Full time
- Salary: £30,000 per annum
- Industries: Health & Social Care Management & Executive
Team Leader - Supported Housing Services
Salary: £30,000 per annum
Location: Various locations across the Isle of Wight
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 35 hours per week
The role:
We’re looking for someone with experience in the Supported Housing sector to join us as a Team Leader to lead and manage our supported housing services on the Isle of Wight. You will need to be able to work in a challenging and demanding environment to meet the housing and support needs of people living with addiction, complex behaviours, learning disability and autism.
Please note: All applications without a cover letter stating how you meet the essential criteria will not be considered for the role.
What you’ll be doing:
- Lead and work as part of a team to promote independent living and ensure the individual support needs of our customers and residents are met
- Monitoring and maintaining up-to-date customer/resident files and ensure every customer/resident has a relevant support plan and individual risk assessment
- To lead and manage care and support services promoting health and wellbeing to help people with complex needs gain greater independence within their home and wider community
- Maximise opportunities for people to move on successfully into independent accommodation
What you’ll need:
- Experience of working in the Supported Housing Sector
- Experience of leading and supporting teams within complex and challenging environments and have the skills and expertise to support managers
- Have extensive knowledge of legislation relevant to the provision of specialist housing, care and support
- You need to have an understanding of the specific requirements of people with care and/or support needs
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, at all levels
- Good IT skills
Please click here to view the job description.
The location:
You will be based at Various locations across the Isle of Wight, travel between the schemes/services will be required. You may be required to travel to offices off Island to meet business needs.
Benefits of working with us:
- A competitive salary
- Generous holiday entitlement
- Job security and career progression opportunities
- An enhanced DBS check, paid for by us
- A great pension scheme
- Full training provided at no additional cost, as well as discounted Ferry and Fastcat travel
- Employee referral scheme – get rewarded for referring your friends!
- Eligible for Blue Light discounts!
Rest assured, that working with us will empower you to be you, with a real sense of purpose and pride in everything you do.
Should you be shortlisted for interview, you will receive a copy of the full job description to aid you in preparing for your interview.
About us
At Southern Housing, our residents are at the heart of everything we do. As one of the largest housing providers in the UK with over 77,000 homes across London, the Southeast, the Isle of Wight, and the Midlands, we give over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their own! We also understand the difference that safe, secure, and affordable homes can make to people’s lives.
A career at Southern Housing will allow you to make a difference every day you come to work. Working in the housing sector with us will bring fresh challenges and give you the opportunity to grow and develop, too.
Inclusion and Diversity
We work hard to create a diverse and inclusive culture and environment where people are respected for who they are. Encouraging inclusion is not just about protected characteristics, it’s about celebrating differences of thought, opinion, experience and perspective of each individual. We’re all different in our own way and we want our colleagues to feel comfortable, that they belong, and are safe to be themselves at work, without fear of being judged or excluded, but valued for their contribution to our One Team approach.
