Team Leader

Change Grow Live; Huntingdon; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Wellness hour + Wellness hub

Contributory pension scheme

Discounts for shopping, cinema, etc.

Training and progression opportunities

Friendly and supportive team

Job summary

Change Grow Live in Huntingdon seeks a proactive Team Leader to oversee a team of Substance Misuse Recovery Coordinators across Cambridgeshire, supporting staff and ensuring continuous, high-quality service delivery.

You will lead recruitment, manage performance, and promote person-centred care while ensuring safeguarding and current legislation compliance. The role is permanent, full-time (37.5 hours/wk) in Huntingdon.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant experience.
• Experience leading health and social care services with high performance and quality standards.
• Experience leading teams working with families where children are subject to social care intervention.
• Knowledge of safeguarding legislation and practice for children and young people.
• Able to inspire and develop a team.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; proficient with Word, Excel, Outlook.

Responsibilities

• Operational line management of a team including supervision, appraisal and sickness management.
• Empower staff to promote hope, choices, control and opportunities for service users.
• Collaborate with the Designated Safeguarding Lead to identify at-risk service users and ensure safety.
• Support staff to improve outcomes through observed practice and timely feedback.
• Lead recruitment, selection and induction of staff.

Skills

Team leadership

Staff supervision

Performance management

Safeguarding

Communication

MS Office

Education

Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

MS Office

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.

Our Team Leaders here at Change Grow Live play an integral role in ensuring an effective service provision for our service users by creating a focussed culture, engaging staff to provide an innovative and continually improving service and provide leadership, support, and development to a wide range of staff.

We are excited to be recruiting to a new role developed in partnership within our Cambridgeshire Service. This full-time offers a unique opportunity to help strengthen collaboration between substance misuse and social care services while supporting the delivery of high-quality, person-centred care.

We're looking for a motivated and proactive individual to lead a team of Substance Misuse Recovery Coordinators working across Cambridgeshire. You'll play an important role in supporting staff, maintaining service delivery, and ensuring we continue to meet the needs of the people we support.

Where Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire

Hours 37.5 per week

Contract Type Permanent

Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles, the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours.

About the role

• Operational line management of a team of staff which includes supervision, 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.
• Work 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. Ensure that staff are competent in the delivery of interventions that reduce risk to service users.
• Support staff to improve service user outcomes through observed practice, providing timely values-based feedback.
• Lead on the recruitment, selection and induction of staff.

About you

• Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant experience.
• Knowledge and experience of developing and leading health and social care services and delivering services which evidence high performance and quality standards.
• Significant experience of leading teams who work with families where children are subject to social care intervention.
• Knowledge of current legislation surrounding children, young people, and safeguarding practice
• 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

Please note This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. For applicants with time-limited visas, unfortunately, we are unable to support new visa applications or extensions.

CGL points 31 to 33 (£36,101.10 - £38,114.53)

N/A - Outside London Weighting Area

4/12/2026

27/11/2026

Tim Childs | [e-mail]

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