Team Leader (Northampton)

Recovery Focus; Northampton (MA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading charity is seeking a Team Leader for its Young People’s Drug & Alcohol Services in Northampton. This role involves leading a committed team to support young people facing substance misuse challenges, ensuring service quality and compliance while fostering a positive team culture. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills, relevant qualifications, and experience in the substance misuse field.

Benefits

40 days' annual leave

Contributory pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Ongoing training and professional development

Qualifications

• Experience supporting young people with substance misuse or social care challenges.
• Proven experience in the substance misuse field with up-to-date knowledge.
• Staff supervision or management experience.

Responsibilities

• Supervising and supporting staff, including induction and coaching.
• Ensuring services meet quality, policy and statutory standards.
• Managing performance and supporting recruitment of staff.

Skills

Leadership

Substance Misuse Knowledge

Partnership Working

Safeguarding

IT Skills

Education

Professional qualification in health, social care, youth work or similar

Job description

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Team Leader – Young People’s Drug & Alcohol Services (Northampton)

Apply locations 25 York Road time type Full time posted on Posted Today time left to apply End Date: June 6, 2025 (16 days left to apply) job requisition id JR009186

Salary: £30,775 – £33,205 per annum
Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time (37 hours per week)
Location: Northamptonshire
Requirement: Full UK driving licence and access to a car essential

Support young people. Lead a vital service. Be part of lasting change.

Are you experienced in supporting young people with substance misuse or related social care challenges? Do you want to lead a committed team making a genuine difference in young lives?

We’re looking for a Team Leader to join NGAGE, our early intervention drug and alcohol service for young people aged 10–18 in Northamptonshire. Delivered by Aquarius, a charity helping individuals and communities overcome the harm caused by alcohol, drugs, and gambling, NGAGE provides early support, education, and tailored interventions.

As Team Leader, you’ll play a central role in service delivery and operational management. Your leadership will ensure clinical quality, service compliance, and a strong team culture, all while maintaining person-centred care and safeguarding best practice.

Key responsibilities include:

• Supervising and supporting staff, including induction, coaching, and development reviews
• Ensuring services meet all quality, policy and statutory standards
• Managing performance and supporting the recruitment of staff and volunteers
• Liaising with commissioners and external partners
• Overseeing data reporting and budget monitoring
• Championing Aquarius’ values and mission

You’ll bring strong leadership skills and significant experience supporting individuals in addictions, mental health, or social care settings – particularly with young people.

You’ll also need:

• A professional qualification in health, social care, youth work or similar (e.g. NVQ Level 4+, DipSW, Mental Health Nursing, Counselling, Addiction Studies)
• Proven experience in the substance misuse field, with up-to-date knowledge of drugs, alcohol and associated health issues
• Familiarity with effective behaviour change interventions, such as motivational interviewing or psychoeducation
• Staff supervision or management experience, plus strong partnership working skills across statutory and voluntary services
• A solid understanding of safeguarding legislation and best practice
• Strong IT and case management skills, and a flexible, strengths-based approach

What we offer:

• 40 days' annual leave (including bank holidays)
• Contributory pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Ongoing training and professional development
• A meaningful role in a charity making real community impact

Make a difference where it matters most.If you want to lead a team making early interventions count for vulnerable young people, this could be your next step.

To review the job description, please click here .

We are committed to increasing our diversity and we would welcome applications from those with lived experience and/or who are from a Black, Asian and those in Minority Ethnic background.

This is a rolling recruitment process; shortlisted candidates will be interviewed as and when they apply.

When applying, please upload a CV and supporting statement which should clearly outline your skills and experience.

Learning and development is important to us, and we are pleased to be able to offer a wide range of apprenticeships. We hire apprentices into specific roles as well as offering apprenticeships to the workforce. Anyone can apply to undertake an apprenticeship relevant to the role as long as they are in a permanent post and have successfully passed probation.

Aquarius Action Projects is a long-established charity (since 1982) based in Birmingham with a national reach of contracts and Partnerships. Aquarius is a subsidiary of Waythrough – a large charity that specialises in mental health, alcohol, drugs and related areas.

About Us

Waythrough launched in October 2024 following the merger of Humankind and Richmond Fellowship.

Our vision is to break down the barriers that stop people getting the support they need to live a life they value. We tackle poverty and disadvantage in communities, through mental health, drug and alcohol, housing and related support.

We have almost 200 services around England – and nearly 3,500 amazing staff and volunteers who run them. Every year our services support around 125,000 people.

Bringing together two big organisations is not a small task and it’ll take a while to fully integrate our systems, processes and approaches. That’s why you will notice the jobs here are still branded ‘Richmond Fellowship’ or ‘Aquarius’ (our subsidiary charity in the Midlands). Next year we’ll be fully integrating our recruitment systems but for now they are separate.

Aquarius is a subsidiary of Waythrough. Aquarius is a Midlands-based charity supporting individuals to overcome the harms caused by drugs, alcohol and gambling. Aquarius has always held the view that people we support could resolve their problems with support and guidance and that people have the ability to find their own solutions to their problems. Our roles across the organisation include Practitioners and Administrators as well as Team Managers.