Reboot West Team Leader (North Somerset)

1625 Independent People; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 31,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

1625 Independent People is seeking a Team Leader for Reboot West, a project aimed at supporting care experienced young people. The role involves providing leadership to a team, managing relationships with stakeholders, and delivering high-quality support to young people based in North Somerset.

Benefits

Healthcare Cash Plan

Generous annual leave entitlement

Supportive environment with reflective practice

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in youth support or similar roles.
• Passionate about supporting young people.
• Self-aware and reflective.

Responsibilities

• Lead operational delivery of the Reboot West project.
• Manage a small team of Coaches.
• Provide high quality support to a caseload of young people.

Skills

Leadership

Interpersonal Skills

Communication

Organizational Skills

Job description

We are excited to be recruiting a Team Leader into our Reboot West Team. Do you believe that a consistent, relationship-based, values-led support model is the best way to achieve sustained education, employment and training outcomes for young people? Are you a passionate, experienced, and dynamic practitioner looking for an opportunity to motivate, inspire and lead a busy team during a new and developing phase of a project?


The Reboot project supports care experienced young people from four local authority areas into meaningful and sustained education, employment, and training. The Reboot support model uses a youth version of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). The ACT approach focuses on supporting young people to recognise their own values and determine their goals and aspirations.


In 2023, 1625 Independent People secured pioneering and prestigious funding to support a further 265 care experienced young people for up to 3 years, whilst also undertaking the largest and strongest evaluation ever of a youth unemployment programme of this type. The intention of this evaluation is to test if a long-term therapeutic support model is better for young people, whilst being more cost effective for the government and so to change the system nationally.


We are currently looking for a full-time Team Leader to provide line management for our Reboot Coaches, support the operational management of the project and hold a small caseload of young people based in North Somerset.


Please find full details of how to apply via our website in the advert below. The deadline for application submissions is 23:59, Wednesday 19 June 2025.


We are striving to better represent the young people we support and therefore are particularly keen to increase applications from Black/Black British and Muslim candidates as they are currently under-represented in our organisation. 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 you will be doing:

• As a highly organised and autonomous person you will be assisting the Reboot Operations Manager to lead operational delivery of the Reboot West project. This will involve using your ability to thrive in a busy environment, especially during times of project change.
• If you are passionate about providing supportive, developmental, and motivational line management then this role is for you! You will manage a small team of Coaches, with caseloads of young people living in Bristol and North Somerset.
• Being self-aware and reflective, you will have excellent interpersonal skills and be a skilled communicator at all levels. These personality traits are essential as this role involves building and maintaining stable and lasting relationships with various internal and external stakeholders.
• As someone committed to expanding your knowledge and skills you will be willing to take on lead specialisms within the team and attend relevant training and development opportunities.
• This is also a case-holding position so you will have the opportunity to provide high quality EET and wellbeing support to a small caseload of young people, based in North Somerset, in a psychologically informed way, using ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) informed approaches.

You will be in the Reboot West team and your line manager will be our Operations Manager, Sam Edwards.


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.


If you have transferrable skills and you are interested in this role, but you are worried about the application process, please get in touch with us. We encourage you to have an informal chat with the recruiting manager to discuss how your personal or professional experience and skills could be transferred to this role. Details of how you can do that are further down in this advert.


Contract details:

• Hours per week: 37.5 (this represents full time). We are open to considering this role at 30 hours per week (with the salary adjusted pro rata based on 0.8 FTE).
• Contract type: Fixed Term Contract until 28 February 2026
• Pay: £31,586 - £33,366 (NJC scale points 20-23, starting at the bottom of the scale)
• The location: You will be based in our Head Office, in Central Bristol, and the Youth Education Services office in Old Market, Bristol.

The role involves managing the relationship with North Somerset local authority and also a small North Somerset-based caseload, so we would welcome applicants based there. There would be hybrid working arrangements, as well as the chance to occasionally work from North Somerset’s office to help facilitate this.


What we are offering:

• A focus on wellness at work including Healthcare Cash Plan.
• An opportunity to work in a psychologically informed environment (PIE) and in a team using ACT as a way of engaging care leavers, with support and supervision from the world leading professional on ACT for adolescents.
• Generous annual leave entitlement of 30 days per annum plus Public and Bank Holidays.
• A very supportive environment with reflective practice, clinical supervision provided by expert ACT psychologists, team and cross departmental and company development days.
  
• You will be asked to answer 5 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.
• ALTHOUGH THE APPLICATION FORM GIVES YOU THE OPTION TO UPLOAD A CV, PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT A CV AS THIS IS NOT NECESSARY AND WILL NOT BE USED IN THIS PROCESS.
• If you have not heard from us by the end of the day on Tuesday 24 June 2025, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Equal 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. 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 equal 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.

Bristol / North Somerset or other neighbouring local authority areas

Department

RebootWest(RBW)

Job Title

Reboot West Team Leader (North Somerset)