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Deputy Manager (Senior Practitioner) - Acre Lane Project

Job details
Posting date: 30 May 2024
Salary: £36,717 per year
Additional salary information: We contribute 6.5% to your pension when you contribute 1.5% and offer 29 days annual leave.
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 09 June 2024
Location: Brixton, South West London
Remote working: On-site only
Company: Thames Reach
Job type: Temporary
Job reference: SPALP - 0524

Summary

Role: Senior Practitioner – Acre Lane Project

Salary: £36,717 per annum

Hours: 37.5 per week

Location: Acre Lane - Brixton

Closing date: 09/06/2024

Interview date: 20/06/2024

Whatever your experience of street homelessness and its impact on people’s lives – personal or professional – when you join the Thames Reach team as a Senior Practitioner, we’ll make the best use of all your understanding, compassion and commitment.

About us…

Thames Reach runs projects and services that help to end homelessness in London. We work directly with homeless people on the streets and in hostels. We work to prevent vulnerable people from becoming homeless. We help formerly homeless people get their lives back on track. We help people find work and access training and volunteering opportunities.

Is our mission easy? No, but we never give up on people. Last year we helped more then 11,000 people.

Is our work rewarding? Yes, in every sense. We’re listed as one of the top 100 Best Workplaces in the UK. There’s no better place to develop or transfer your skills and build a fulfilling career.

About this role…

We are looking for a Senior Practitioner to join the team at Acre Lane and Clarence Avenue, two of our hostels in the Brixton area.

Thames Reach’s hostels are transitional spaces where a 24 hour staff team support people to move in, assess their needs, and quickly identify the best place for them to move on to next. Skilled staff teams develop personalised support plans to ensure people are ready to move on and are accessing support with their health, substance misuse, criminal justice and life skills needs.

You will:

- Be responsible for directly managing the staff team and overseeing the day to day management of fast paced services
- Reporting incidents to senior management and commissioners and ensure staff are aware of and working to health and safety guidelines
- Foster a culture of high performance and continual striving to improve upon successes throughout your team
- Lead on the move on of residents and ensure they’re equipped and supported in to independence
- Develop and manage partnerships with key agencies across London.

To succeed as the Senior Practitioner you will be:

- Outcome focused
- Experienced in organising the operations of a complex and busy service
- A decisive and effective leader
- An excellent communicator able to form and maintain effective working relationships with all partners
- Experienced in directly managing staff, overseeing the management of others and ensuring -the services finances are well managed.

We are listed in the top 100 UK Best Workplaces 2023 in the UK. As part of a commitment to our employees we offer:

- Generous holiday allowance – 29 days per year plus 8 public holidays (pro rata)
- Pension – we contribute 6.5% to your pension when you contribute 1.5%
- Excellent development opportunities – career progression, regular supervision and appraisals, and learning programmes to support your career with Thames Reach
- Wellbeing support – our 24/7 employee assistance programme and opportunities for TOIL
- Life assurance – four times your annual salary and critical illness cover
- Other benefits including interest free season ticket and cycle to work loans.

Thames Reach is committed to achieving a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We value, respect, and celebrate diversity. We welcome and encourage applicants from all sections of the community regardless of their history of homelessness, sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religious belief.

To apply visit our website and complete our application form.

For further information please contact, Bethan Adams, Area Manager at bethan.adams@thamesreach.org.uk

Thames Reach is committed to safeguarding. Applicants must be willing to undergo pre-employment screening appropriate to the post, including, but not limited to checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. Having a criminal record will not exclude you from applying but you will be asked to provide further details as most posts are considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

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