Ref: 25/19 Housing & Accommodation Support Service Deputy Manager - Liverpool

Imagine Independence; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 33,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to supporting individuals with mental health challenges and learning disabilities. As a Housing & Accommodation Support Service Deputy Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in transforming lives by working closely with offenders and multi-disciplinary teams. Your commitment to reducing repeat offending and enhancing psychological well-being will be essential in delivering person-centered services. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact within the community while enjoying generous benefits and a supportive work environment. Be part of a team that believes in nurturing individuality and challenging the status quo.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Employer’s contributory pension scheme

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Generous benefits package

Qualifications

• Experience in Health & Social Care settings is essential.
• Ability to work with Multi-Disciplinary Teams is crucial.

Responsibilities

• Identify and prioritize offenders for support services.
• Manage referrals and ensure smooth transitions into services.

Skills

Health & Social Care experience

Multi-Disciplinary Team collaboration

Risk management planning

Person-centered services delivery

Psychological health improvement

Job description

Ref: 25/19 Housing & Accommodation Support Service Deputy Manager - Liverpool

Job Reference: 25/19

Hours: 37.5 hours per week to be worked Monday – Friday

Salary: £32,016.00 per annum plus on call

Benefits: 25 days annual leave plus statutory bank holidays, employer’s contributory pension scheme, EAP scheme and other generous benefits

About us

Imagine Independence is a leading third sector organisation, passionate about supporting people with mental illness, neurodiversity, learning disabilities, and behaviours that challenge to live as part of their community. Imagine exists to challenge the stigma that having a mental illness or learning disability still brings. Imagine supports people to live meaningfully by nurturing their individuality and recognising the power of small steps.

Every day, Imagines’ staff and volunteers generously share their experience, knowledge, and talents with the people they support. Through their focused dedication to Imagines’ mission, and the courage to challenge the status quo, people feel valued. They know they are making both the ‘everyday’ and the ‘extraordinary’ become possible for everyone. They walk alongside the people they have the privilege to serve, helping to transform lives, one day at a time. And they never give up.

Do you want to become part of this amazing organisation? NHS England & NOMS have jointly commissioned a Housing & Accommodation Support Service for male offenders with a personality disorder diagnosis who are on the offender pathway. The service will be delivered via a joint service model including health, criminal justice and specialist third sector housing & accommodation partners.

If you have the following assets, we would like to hear from you:

• Experience of working in a Health & Social Care setting.
• Experience of working with multiple agencies including Multi-Disciplinary Teams.
• Experience of processing referrals/conducting assessments/formulating risk management plans & delivering person centered services.
• A commitment to reducing repeat offending and improving psychological health & wellbeing.

Job Description:

• To work closely with other partners in the pathway to identify and prioritise offenders from within the OPD pathway who would benefit from the service.
• To work with offenders eligible for the service prior to and at the point of transition into HASS in order to equip them with the skills and confidence to move on into the HASS Service.
• To process referrals in a timely manner in collaboration with appropriate partners from within the pathway to ensure that the transition into the service is planned and smooth. To be actively involved in risk assessment and management and identify support needs during transitions.
• To work closely with others on the pathway to ensure that interventions are guided and delivered with reference to a shared psycho social care formulations which involves key decisions making and plans to address risks and complex needs as part of an individual pathway.
• To ensure there is a formulation-based approach within the service and all staff working within the service consistently adopt this approach.To establish a referral/assessment process which will encompass this model.
• To ensure all staff are well supported by establishing regular support structures including: team meetings, appraisals, management supervision and externally facilitated group supervisions using the Cognitive Analytical Therapy Approach.
• To work alongside Head of Service to recruit suitably qualified and experienced staff and ensure there are adequate staffing levels to maintain quality standards at all times.
• To ensure the service model and service aims are clearly identified including relational approach and boundaries. To ensure staff are trained and appropriately supported and supervised to carry out their role.To offer guidance and advice and check quality of support planning and risk management routinely in accordance with ongoing monitoring processes.
• To take responsibility for working with residents and local community-based services to develop on site programmes to develop skills and raise awareness.
• To strengthen relationships with Third Sector providers and encourage where appropriate access to voluntary sector, drug, alcohol and mental health services offering peer support; education and training; group work and specialist employment services.
• To ensure staff team support residents to access universal services including, welfare benefits; housing advice and debt management services.
• To enhance opportunities for accommodation to be secured by working closely with registered social landlords; private landlords; Imagine’s housing department and care co-ordinators with access to supported housing and using Property Pool.
• To actively develop and maintain close links with key partners including Resettle; Probation; Crosby Housing Association; NHS England Commissioners and NOMS commissioners to develop and maintain close working links with other parts of the OPD Pathway.

Imagine is a values-based recruiter and so it will be seeking to ensure that the successful candidate will align with the following:

• Meaningful Living: Using empathy to bring together diverse people and resources, to put the everyday within reach of everyone.
• Nurturing Individuality: Creating conditions that support people to be true to themselves and express their truth.
• Focused Dedication: Showing up each day hungry to do our best to learn and develop. We never give up on people.
• Challenging Ideas: Keeping our efforts real and centred on what matters most, we do not settle for the ordinary when better is possible.
• Generous Sharing: Giving of ourselves, our experiences and knowledge, to promote and provide a great service.

For an initial chat, please contact Carmel Garrigos on 07867 355 238 (Monday to Friday 9am-5pm).

An enhanced DBS will be required for this post.

Closing date for applications:Tuesday 13.05.2025 at 12.00 noon.

Interviews will take place: Thursday 22.05.2025.

Imagine reserves the right to close the vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.

Imagine aims to be an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants from all sections of the community.

Head Office: 25 Hope Street, Liverpool, L1 9BQ