Team Manager in Loftus

Job summary

With our current Team Manager retiring early next year, we are seeking an experienced leader for our supported living service in Loftus. The service enables people to live independently and successfully as tenants in their own homes, while our outreach provision helps people access their communities and pursue opportunities that improve their quality of life.

Main duties of the job

With our current Team Manager retiring early next year, we are seeking an experienced leader for our supported living service in Loftus. The service enables people to live independently and successfully as tenants in their own homes, while our outreach provision helps people access their communities and pursue opportunities that improve their quality of life.

As Team Manager, you will provide operational leadership across the Loftus locality, ensuring safe, high-quality, person-centred support. You will inspire and develop the staff team, oversee service quality and build effective partnerships with the people we support, families, commissioners and health and social care professionals.

Do you want to lead within an innovative organisation that puts people at the forefront of everything it does?

This role offers the opportunity to help people reach their potential and achieve their aspirations.

Over the past ten years, PIPS has developed innovative, person-centred supported living solutions for people with learning disabilities, autistic people and people with mental health needs across Teesside, North Yorkshire and County Durham.

PIPS have a good reputation with commissioners, regulators, health and social care professionals, families and the people we support.

Job responsibilities

Post: Team Manager

Salary: £47,000 to £57,000 (incremental scale)

Location: Loftus Locality

Closing Date: 31st October 2026

All applicants must have a permanent right to work in the UK. For operational reasons, PIPS cannot accept applications from candidates whose right to work is time limited.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professional Qualification RNLD
• Positive Behavioural Support Qualification

Experience

• Experience in a keyworker or primary nurse role
• Working within the Positive Behavioural Support approach
• Experience providing supervision and leading a staff team

Knowledge, Skills & Understanding

• A good understanding of the CQC and KLOE
• Understanding of quality assurance and audit
• Ability to communicate with a wide range of individuals
• Managing Budgets
• Knowledge of the current national agenda in relation to people with learning disabilities
• To understand the principles of equality and diversity

Personal Attributes

• To have natural leadership attributes, to want to achieve high standards
• Ability to work under own initiative and be organised
• Demonstrate innovation and creativity
• Have a good Self Awareness and are able to accept feedback from service users, colleagues and managers.
• To enjoy the opportunity to develop and mentor others
• Ability to work in a calm, patient and tolerant manner when working in stressful situations.
• Able to work shifts covering 24 hours 7 days a week 365 days of the year

Physical Ability

• Able to push a wheelchair outside, use of hoist
• Able to complete the physical intervention training

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Positive Individual Proactive Support Limited

Address

Odd Fellows Hall

Zetland Road

Loftus

TS13 4XZ

United Kingdom

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