Service Manager - Female* (Bristol Women’s and Complex Needs Services)
Bristol
£34,106 - £38,052 pa
37.5 hours per week

Our client is seeking to recruit an inspirational Service Manager to lead their Bristol Housing Services as part of the Bristol Homelessness Pathways and to also be responsible for the contract coordination of the Women’s Pathway and their low support Family Service.

Their Women’s and Mixed Gender Housing services include, high and medium support Projects that provide accommodation across Bristol, working with clients in a recovery focused way to support them into independent living.

As the Service Manager will work with the Senior Services Manager and take responsibility for day-to-day management and service delivery; working with a team of Deputy Managers to lead, motivate and develop the teams. You will also ensure that excellent client support and positive management and development of staff are maintained. In addition to, networking, resource-building budgetary control responsibilities.

The post therefore requires a resilient manager, equipped to meet the challenges of supporting complex clients and staff teams across multiple sites, as well as locality management and building strong neighbourhood and community relations.  

To succeed, you will have experience of staff management and the ability to motivate staff. You will also have experience of working with vulnerable homeless or disadvantaged people, coupled with the knowledge and an understanding of their housing and support needs, as well as the housing options and framework to support them.

In return, they offer a range of benefits including a pension scheme, staff discounts scheme and flexible working to help you maintain a healthy work/life balance. They are also committed to providing their staff with a wide range of learning and development opportunities in support of their personal and professional development.

Closing date: 10:00am, 25 January 2019
Interview and assessment date:  6-8 February 2019

It is a requirement for this post that an enhanced DBS disclosure check, will be undertaken for the successful candidate.
 
They particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) applicants, as they are under-represented at senior level.    
Please be advised that all appointments will be made on their current standard Terms and Conditions (T&Cs); this also applies to any internal candidates.

Equality, diversity and inclusion are central to the organisation's values and how they work. They are in the top 100 of Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index 2018, they are also proud to have been awarded Personnel Today’s 2018 Diversity and Inclusion (Public Sector) award and they are a Disability Confident Employer. To ensure that their workforce reflects the diversity of their clients as well as the communities that they live and work within, they encourage and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

*For genuine occupational requirement reasons they are looking to appoint a female only for this post (exemption under the Equality Act 2010 Part 1 Schedule 9).