Personal Wellbeing Team Leader

Scarborough or York – with travel across North Yorkshire

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Are you a highly motivated, focused, and influential individual with natural leadership qualities? Are you passionate about making a difference to disadvantaged and vulnerable people? If so, St Giles is looking for a Team Leader to provide operational management across the service.  

About St Giles   
St Giles is an award-winning social justice charity using expertise and real-life past experiences to empower people who are not getting the help they need. People are held back by poverty, exploited, abused, dealing with addiction or mental health problems, caught up in crime or a combination of these issues and others. We show people there is a way to build a better future for themselves and those they care about and help them create this through support, advice, and training.  

The Foundation provides life-changing housing, support, and domestic abuse services across the North of England, working with people who require a helping hand to establish a full and independent life in their local community. This may include help to access and manage tenancy, look for work, tackle addictions, improve family relationships and access basic services, such as a GP or setting up a bank account. The Foundation operates a wide variety of services across Yorkshire and the North East, working closely with local authorities and other key partners from the statutory and Third Sectors to deliver outstanding services and achieve positive outcomes for our clients. 

About this role:
You will be part of a small team providing person-centred holistic support by addressing a range of personal well-being issues faced by service users referred by the Probation Service. Interventions will focus on addressing the following: 

• Support around families and other significant relationships 
• Support to reduce social isolation and improve decision-making/lifestyle choices 
• Support with emotional wellbeing  
• Provide through-the-gates support for those leaving prison. 

To secure this exciting opportunity, you must have: 

• Experience in managing and supervising staff to successfully deliver services with   KPI’s, quality standards and/or targets.   
• Experience working in or managing services supporting male offenders including young adults whether in community or prison settings  
• Experience working in or managing services supporting challenging people, for example, people who have complex needs, people who are reluctant to discuss their needs, and people who are angry and confused. 
• Experience in working in or managing multi-agency partnerships working towards common objectives and outcomes.  
• Experience in undertaking file reviews and audits. 

In return, you can expect a competitive salary, generous leave allowance, staff pension, flexible working, a mentoring programme, an advice and counselling service, access to clinical supervision, season ticket loans, and much more. 

We are an equity and inclusion confident employer. We welcome all applications, and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.

St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.

To apply, please email us via this advert and request an application form.

Closing date: 17th September 2024 at 11pm.