Team Manager

What we’re looking for:

• Do you have a background in specialist/supported housing?

• Do you have experience of working with a vulnerable client group?

• Do you understand or have experience of managing a large team?

• Can you communicate respectfully with and about people respecting their dignity and diversity?

• Do you drive and have access to your own vehicle?

If so, this role is perfect for you!

Here at Peabody, we have an opportunity for a Team Manager on a Temporary basis for 12 months, covering our Colchester area.

A bit about the role:

As a Team Manager, you will provide leadership and direction for your team of Outreach Support Workers to deliver high quality and effective support services, which promote the independence, wellbeing and inclusion of customers.

As Team Manager, you will identify and deliver service improvement projects and initiatives that improve the effectiveness of the team and the outcomes of the service.

Some of the key results for the role include:

• Leading, supervising and managing a team of support workers, providing supervision every four to six weeks, and being responsible for ensuring they meet or exceed the requirements of their role.

• Providing a positive role model for support workers, by modelling good practice, advising on, and intervening in, complex and/or high-risk cases and assisting with the in-service induction of new staff.

• Ensuring that support workers carry out needs and risk assessments, complete support plans, provide support in accordance with the risk assessment plans and carry out reviews, in accordance with policies and procedures and the requirements of stakeholders and funders.

• Ensuring support workers deliver services to customers which are flexible and personalised.

This role will require a Enhanced DBS check and a UK driver’s licence and access to a vehicle.

The successful candidate must be available for the on call rota which includes waking nights and sleep ins.

This role would suit an experienced Senior Support Worker or Support Worker seeking career progression and/or development!

A bit about us:

160 years after it was established, Peabody is one of the oldest not-for-profit housing associations in the UK.

The Peabody Group is responsible for more than 107,000 homes, with around 220,000 residents across London and the Home Counties. We also have around 20,000 care and support customers.

Our purpose is to help people flourish, and we are getting closer to residents by taking a local approach.

We are committed to delivering a responsive and easily accessible repairs service and investing in our existing homes so they are safe and well maintained. Our retrofit projects will make thousands of our homes more energy efficient.

We work with councils and communities to promote economic inclusion, tackle inequality and poverty, and prioritise wellbeing.

Here just a few of the benefits for working at Peabody:

• Up to 25 days’ annual holiday plus bank holidays

• Flexible benefits scheme, including options for Healthcare, Dental care, Critical illness cover, vouchers, technology scheme and access to a discount portal.

• 4 x Life Assurance

• Competitive salaries that are benchmarked regularly against current market rates 

• Professional development by access to "paid for" apprenticeship programs and qualifications

• Two additional paid volunteering days each year 

• Family friendly policies

• Up to 10% pension contribution matched 1:1

Are you ready to apply?

Interview Date - Week commencing 8th July.

To be considered for the position ofTeam Manager, please click on the ‘Apply Now’ button and submit both your CV and a bit about why we should consider you for the role. 

If you need to ask us anything else at all, feel free to drop an email to George.Murphy@peabody.org.uk and one of our team will be in touch.