Team Leader

Team Leader

Location: London

Salary: £30,350 - £43,675 per annum

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

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

The Role

As a Team Leader at Pier Road, you will play a pivotal role managing a team of 8 recovery practitioners in a Drug and Alcohol Service with a clinical element, working closely with SLAM as a lead provider dealing with the prescribing and psychosocial  element of their service users. You will support the Services Manager in, delivering, monitoring, and improving processes and to meet quality requirements and contractual needs, including KPIs. You will manage and lead a team of recovery coordinators within the service, ensuring that first class care is delivered to their service users. 
Your role will involve:

• Managing, mentoring, coaching, and ensuring the development of staff reporting to you, including volunteers.
• Maintaining accurate and up-to-date records and reports and providing written and verbal reports as required.
• Actively engaging service users in future service design/changes to delivery.
• Ensuring all services delivered are accessible, paying particular attention to underrepresented groups.

Skills and Qualifications

• Experience within the drug and alcohol sector would be ideal. 
• Experience managing caseloads.
• Experience managing a small team
• Excellent IT skills, e.g. Microsoft packages

Benefits

• Generous annual leave entitlement (27 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 32 after 1 years’ service)
• Annual leave purchase scheme
• Enhanced occupational sick pay
• Enhanced employer contribution to your workplace pension
• Death in service benefit
• Free Will writing
• Eyecare vouchers
• Blue light card discount
• Fantastic learning and development opportunities, including free training courses
• Work-life balance- flexible working and family-friendly policies
• Happy, Healthy You! – their wellbeing offers for their workforce
• Employee Assist Programme and Support Networks

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Waythrough, please click apply to be redirected to their website to complete your application.