35 hours
Are you an inspiring people manager with a passion for supporting recovery and wellbeing?
We’re looking for a confident Team Leader to manage and motivate a team delivering tailored drug and alcohol interventions to adults with complex needs.
You’ll lead from the front, balancing people management, service delivery and performance, while ensuring high-quality, person-centred support using both harm reduction and abstinence-based approaches, alongside low-level mental health support.
What you’ll be doing
- Lead, support and develop a team of practitioners to deliver high-quality interventions
- Allocate caseloads, manage performance and hold responsibility for KPIs and targets
- Manage a small number of complex cases and oversee effective case management
- Deputise for the Service Manager when required, acting as senior lead on site
- Build strong relationships with commissioners, partner agencies and key stakeholders
- Ensure data accuracy, audits, compliance and quality standards are consistently met
You’ll be great at
- Motivating teams and managing performance in a fast-paced environment
- Leading through change and promoting positive team culture and wellbeing
- Ensuring services meet contractual, regulatory and safeguarding standards
- Using data, audits and governance processes to drive continuous improvement
You’ll play a key leadership role in a service that genuinely changes lives, supported by a collaborative organisation that values quality, integrity and staff wellbeing.
Please see attached Job Description for full details
All prison-based roles are subject to enhanced DBS checks and HMPPS security vetting. These checks can take up to 5 months to complete. Any offer of employment will be conditional upon the successful completion of both checks.
Please note if you have lived overseas within the last 5 years then checks may take longer.
The stated salary includes a £3,000 cost-of-living allowance, which is discretionary and may be withdrawn at any time. This allowance is provided under an interim scheme that is reviewed every April & October.