Youth Housing Team Manager - Trauma-Informed Leader

BARNARDO'S; Lancaster; Hybrid; GBP 37,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday entitlement

Cycle2work

Sick pay

EAP access

L&D opportunities

Store discount 20%

Job summary

Barnardo's in Lancaster is seeking a Team Manager for its Supported Accommodation service for young people aged 16-25. The role oversees staff, coordinates individual support plans, and ensures high standards of care and professional relationships to promote independent living.

The position requires flexible, trauma-informed practice, strong leadership, and collaboration with commissioners. The hybrid working model and competitive salary reflect Barnardo's values and commitment to staff

Responsibilities

• Have oversight of, and support all staff to follow, individual support plans for each young person so their needs are met, developing positive and professional working relationships with the young people
• Have an open and flexible approach to working with young people and a commitment to understanding how to positively manage behaviours that can challenge
• Support the vision of the service and have the passion and drive to see it succeed
• To be a champion of and advocate for the voice of the young people, building child-centred and trauma informed practice into the heart of everything we do
• To model good care practice to the wider team
• Provide robust management and leadership to a staff team
• Actively deliver timely supervision, monitoring the quality of work, both hands on and record keeping, to ensure staff are working to high levels of performance and within the best interests of the young people
• Liaise and work alongside our commissioners
• Oversee both electronic and paper-based records ensuring the are complete, up to date, reviewed and accurate
• Mentor and coach the whole staff team in a fair and non-biased manner, and provide support to the Children's Services Manager
• Balance and produce an efficient and effective working rota to ensure optimum service delivery
• Be an ambassador for Barnardo's, attending meetings with professionalism and understanding, and keeping the service manager appraised of significant information
• Use ICT to maintain accurate records in key performance management data, keeping chronologies and working within timescales
• Participate in the on-call rota alongside other services' management teams

Job description

Barnardo's in Lancaster is seeking a Team Manager for its Supported Accommodation service for young people aged 16-25. The role oversees staff, coordinates individual support plans, and ensures high standards of care and professional relationships to promote independent living.

The position requires flexible, trauma-informed practice, strong leadership, and collaboration with commissioners. The hybrid working model and competitive salary reflect Barnardo's values and commitment to staff