Team Manager - Accommodation

Supported Accommodation Services in Lancashire

Barnardo's provides supported accommodation to young people aged 16-25 across a number of sites in Lancashire. The service aims to provide young people with the skills, knowledge and confidence needed for independent living. The young people who live in our accommodation are from a range of backgrounds and are often either in the process of Leaving Care or have experienced homelessness.

Some of the services are staffed 24 hours per day by a dedicated team. Young people can live within our accommodation for up to 2 years so that they can move on successfully to their own accommodation in a planned and coordinated way.

The service that this post links to is:
Moving On - 2a High Street and Mariners View
These services are based in Lancaster and provide short-term accommodation-based housing and support to young people aged 16-25 who are vulnerable and unable to live independently in the community.

• 2a High Street provides 7 units of accommodation. This service is staffed 24/7.
• Mariners View is comprised off 11 1-bed roomed flats and staff provide visiting support

Specific Responsibilities of the Role:

The Team Manager job description outlines some of the key responsibilities of the role, and the successful candidate(s) will also need to:

• Have oversight of, and support all staff to follow, individual support plans for each young person so their needs are met, developing positive and professional working relationships with the young people
• Have an open and flexible approach to working with young people and a commitment to understanding how to positively manage behaviours that can challenge.
• Support the vision of the service and have the passion and drive to see it succeed.
• To be a champion of and advocate for the voice of the young people, building child-centred and trauma informed practice into the heart of everything we do.
• To model good care practice to the wider team.
• Provide robust management and leadership to a staff team
• Actively deliver timely supervision, monitoring the quality of work, both hands on and record keeping, to ensure staff are working to high levels of performance and within the best interests of the young people
• Liaise and work alongside our commissioners
• Oversee both electronic and paper-based records ensuring the are complete, up to date, reviewed and accurate.
• Mentor and coach the whole staff team in a fair and non-biased manner, and provide support to the Children's Services Manager
• Balance and produce an efficient and effective working rota to ensure optimum service delivery
• Be an ambassador for Barnardo's, attending meetings with professionalism and understanding, and keeping the service manager appraised of significant information.
• Use ICT to maintain accurate records in key performance management data, keeping chronologies and working within timescales.
• Participate in the on-call rota covering the locality alongside other services' management teams.

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible