Team Leader

Change Grow Live; Eastchurch; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A charitable organization dedicated to supporting service users seeks a Team Leader for HMP Elmley, a men's prison. Responsibilities include managing staff, enhancing service user outcomes, and ensuring the team's compliance with regulations. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and experience in criminal justice or healthcare settings. The position offers a salary range of £35,220.59 - £37,184.90 per annum and benefits including holidays and training opportunities.

Benefits

25 days holiday (+ bank holidays)

Paid ‘Wellness’ hour

Contributory pension scheme

Employee Assist Programme

Discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant experience.
• Experience of working within a prison/criminal justice setting.
• Sensitivity in working with complex cultural issues.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team including supervision and performance management.
• Empower staff to support service users.
• Ensure practices identify at-risk users.
• Provide feedback to improve user outcomes.

Skills

Leadership

Communication skills

Cultural sensitivity

Health and social care service development

Education

Degree or equivalent relevant experience

Tools

MS Office (Word/Excel/Outlook)

Job description

Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives. Our core values are ‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’ and our teams apply these daily, offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options.

Change Grow Live is responsible to deliver the contract to provide psychosocial intervention and transitional services across prisons in Kent. This service began on 1st April 2022 and offers a range of initiatives to ensure the best possible outcomes for our service users.

We are looking to recruit a passionate and committed individual to the role of Team Leader within HMP Elmley. HMP Elmley is a local Category B/C men's prison, located close to the village of Eastchurch on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent. The term ‘local’ means that this prison holds people on remand to the local courts.

Full Time Hours 37.5 per week

Full Time Salary Range £35,220.59 - £37,184.90 per annum

3>About the role

• Operational line management of a team of staff which includes supervision (with reflective practice), appraisal, performance and sickness management as well as ensuring staff follow CGL and external policies applicable to their roles.
• Empowering staff to promote hope, empowerment, choices, control, and opportunities that assist service users reaching their full potential as individuals and community members.
• Working with your team and Designated Safeguarding Lead (if not your role) to ensure that the practices within the team/service enable identification of service users, children and families who are at risk. Ensuring that staff are competent in the delivery of interventions that reduce risk to service users.
• Supporting staff to improve service user outcomes through observed practice, providing timely values-based feedback.

About you

• Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant experience.
• Experience of working within a prison/criminal justice setting.
• Sensitivity in working with complex and diverse cultural issues.
• Knowledge and experience of developing and leading health and social care services and delivering services which evidence high performance and quality standards.
• Able to lead, inspire and develop a team.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and able to use common MS Office applications (Word/Excel/Outlook).

What we will give to you

• 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service “Capped at 30 days”.
• Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘Wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• A great selection of benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
• A friendly and supportive team.
• Training, career development & progression opportunities.

Direct applications only — we will not be engaging agencies for this vacancy.

Please ensure that when completing your application form and supporting statement, you reflect on the details outlined in the job description. This will help us understand how your skills and experiences align with the requirements of the role.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

CGL points 31 to 33 (£35,220.59 - £37,184.90)

16/1/2026

Rob Mackay | [e-mail] | 01795802124

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.