Team Leader - SHAP and DA (until June 2027)

Target Housing; Rotherham; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 28 days

Blue Light Card

Pension contribution

Health cover

Financial wellbeing support

Career progression

Job summary

Target Housing Ltd is seeking an experienced Team Leader to oversee SHAP and Domestic Abuse projects in Sheffield. The role focuses on leading a staff team, mentoring colleagues, and delivering person-centred support to service users with complex needs.

The position is a fixed-term contract until June 2027, full-time (39 hours per week), with a pro rata salary of £31,010 per annum. The successful candidate will work within a committed team and contribute to safeguarding and trauma-informed

Qualifications

• Experience with psychologically informed approaches and trauma-informed practice.
• Experience supporting people with multiple complex needs.
• Knowledge of safeguarding and risk management practices.
• Experience writing reports for service delivery and outcomes.
• Previous management experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate ongoing professional development within the team.
• Lead and participate in team meetings.
• Line manage staff, supervise performance and conduct appraisals.
• Provide oversight of complex cases and mentor staff.
• Manage challenging situations including complaints.
• Attend multi-disciplinary meetings and represent Target Housing.
• Collect data and prepare project activity reports.
• Adhere to Target Housing policies, including Equal Opportunities and Health & Safety.
• Carry out additional duties as directed by senior managers.

Skills

Trauma-informed practice

Psychologically Informed Environments

Complex needs support

Homelessness housing sector

Safeguarding risk management

Report writing

Management experience

Job description

Team Leader - SHAP and Domestic Abuse Projects (Fixed Term Contract)

Location:S60 1BY

Salary: £31,010.00 per annum (pro rata)

Contract Type:Full-Time (39 hours per week), Fixed Term – June 2027 (may be extended)

About Us

Target Housing is a charity dedicated to making a difference to the lives of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people within our society. Over the past 25 years we have shown that stable accommodation and support can help transform lives and empower people to achieve independence. If you’d like a real sense of job satisfaction, great career prospects and a competitive benefits package, you could be who we’re looking for!

About the Role

We’re looking for an experienced and compassionate Team Leader to join our dedicated team in Sheffield. As a visible and proactive Team Leader, you will help our Service Manager to create a supportive and empowering environment for staff and our service users alike.The successful candidate will have experience in working with people with severe multiple disadvantage, including homelessness, offending history, diagnosed mental health conditions, adverse childhood experiences and domestic abuse. You will have a broad understanding of both support and housing pathways, alongside psychological interventions. Above all, we are looking for an empathic, person-centred and understanding individual to support and help lead team.

General Tasks

• Facilitating continual professional development
• Lead and participate in team meetings
• Line manage the staff team including carrying out supervisions, appraisals and managing performance
• Have oversight of complex cases and mentor the staff team
• Manage difficult situations and challenges including complaints
• Attend multi disciplinary meetings, ensuring Target is positively represented
• Collate data and compile reports on project activity
• Perform other such duties as may be required to further aims of Target Housing within the Health and Safety requirements.
• Adhere to all of Target Housing’s policies and procedures in particular our Equal Opportunities, Confidentiality and Health and Safety policies.
• Carry out other such duties as directed by senior managers as appropriate to the aims of Target Housing.

Requirements

• An individual who embraces challenges enthusiastically
• An understand of the principles of Psychologically Informed Environments and Trauma Informed Practice
• At least 3 years’ experience of supporting people with multiple complex needs
• Experience of the housing/homelessness sector
• Extensive knowledge of safeguarding and risk management
• Experience of writing reports
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Previous management experience preferred

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As an Equal Opportunities employer, we have an Equality and Diversity Action plan in place showing our commitment in ensuring continuous improvement in creating an inclusive culture. We also have a committed group of Inclusion & Diversity champions who meet monthly to ensure progress is being made. We invite applications from people from all backgrounds and cultures, especially minority groups that are underrepresented in the workplace. We also welcome applications from those with lived experience. We embrace flexibility and are proud to be a Disability Confident employer.

If you have any special access requirements or other support needs throughout the application process (including interview), please contact us so that we can let you know how we can support you.

Benefits at Target Housing

• Generous Annual Leave - 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays (and rising to 33 days with service) (pro rata for fixed term and part time employees)
• Access to a Blue Light Card
• Pension Contribution
• Westfield Health Cover
• Financial Wellbeing Support – Access to Lifetime Finance
• Career progression opportunities

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