Supported Living Transition Manager
| Posting date: | 10 October 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £42,791 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 November 2025 |
| Location: | Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT86BT |
| Company: | Mencap |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 58149298 |
Summary
Are you passionate about supporting people with a learning disability to live fulfilling lives in their communities? Do you thrive on building partnerships and leading change? If so, we’d love you to join our NI Development Team as a Supported Living Transition Manager.
This is an exciting and worthwhile opportunity to be at the heart of shaping new supported living services across Northern Ireland. You’ll play a pivotal role in helping people with a learning disability transition into community-based living, ensuring their voices are heard and their needs are met.
About the Role
As the Transition Manager, you will be the key point of contact for setting up new supported living arrangements. You’ll bring together families, health and social care professionals, housing providers, and internal teams to co-design person-centred support plans and ensure smooth transitions.
You’ll:
- Lead the development and implementation of supported living transitions.
- Coordinate across multiple stakeholders to ensure timely and effective delivery.
- Champion the rights and choices of people with a learning disability.
- Work closely with our strategic partners to embed best practice and innovation.
What We’re Looking For
- Experience in social care, housing, or community development.
- Strong project management and stakeholder engagement skills.
- A commitment to inclusion, dignity, and person-centred approaches.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively across teams.
Why Join Us?
You’ll be part of a passionate and forward-thinking team working to deliver Mencap NI’s Vision 2030. This role offers the chance to make a real difference — not just in services, but in people’s lives.
Benefits
As well as knowing that what we do is making a positive difference to people’s lives, you will receive fair pay and have access to a wide range of rewards and benefits as one of our employees.
- 24 days holiday, pro-rata (plus bank holidays) increasing with long service plus the ability to buy up to another 10 days via our HolidayPlus scheme
- Service related sick pay when 6 month probation is completed
- Eligibility to join Mencap Pension Plan where Mencap matches contributions up to 5% on a salary sacrifice basis meaning NI savings. If you don’t join the Plan you start, you will be auto-enrolled after three months with us.
- Membership of Mencap Pension Plan to include up to 3 times salary death in service live cover AND Income Protection of 50% salary to be triggered at 26 weeks of long term sickness
- Loans for debt consolidation, bikes, computers and phones when you have been with us for 6 months
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Discounts and cashback from 3% to 30% at high street shops including major super markets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via Mencap Extras
- Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc.
- Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
- Quarterly award scheme and recognition at every 5 years through our YouRock program
- Access to award winning training and development
*T&C's apply based on contract
About Mencap
We work in partnership with people with a learning disability, and all our services support people to live life as they choose. Everyone wants a purposeful job - to do something meaningful. At Mencap, we can give you that. You will have opportunities to develop as a person, colleague, leader and activist. We want to make you feel inspired to reach your potential.
Our work includes:
- providing high-quality, flexible services that allow people to live as independently as possible in a place they choose
- providing advice through our help lines and web sites
This is an exciting and worthwhile opportunity to be at the heart of shaping new supported living services across Northern Ireland. You’ll play a pivotal role in helping people with a learning disability transition into community-based living, ensuring their voices are heard and their needs are met.
About the Role
As the Transition Manager, you will be the key point of contact for setting up new supported living arrangements. You’ll bring together families, health and social care professionals, housing providers, and internal teams to co-design person-centred support plans and ensure smooth transitions.
You’ll:
- Lead the development and implementation of supported living transitions.
- Coordinate across multiple stakeholders to ensure timely and effective delivery.
- Champion the rights and choices of people with a learning disability.
- Work closely with our strategic partners to embed best practice and innovation.
What We’re Looking For
- Experience in social care, housing, or community development.
- Strong project management and stakeholder engagement skills.
- A commitment to inclusion, dignity, and person-centred approaches.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively across teams.
Why Join Us?
You’ll be part of a passionate and forward-thinking team working to deliver Mencap NI’s Vision 2030. This role offers the chance to make a real difference — not just in services, but in people’s lives.
Benefits
As well as knowing that what we do is making a positive difference to people’s lives, you will receive fair pay and have access to a wide range of rewards and benefits as one of our employees.
- 24 days holiday, pro-rata (plus bank holidays) increasing with long service plus the ability to buy up to another 10 days via our HolidayPlus scheme
- Service related sick pay when 6 month probation is completed
- Eligibility to join Mencap Pension Plan where Mencap matches contributions up to 5% on a salary sacrifice basis meaning NI savings. If you don’t join the Plan you start, you will be auto-enrolled after three months with us.
- Membership of Mencap Pension Plan to include up to 3 times salary death in service live cover AND Income Protection of 50% salary to be triggered at 26 weeks of long term sickness
- Loans for debt consolidation, bikes, computers and phones when you have been with us for 6 months
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Discounts and cashback from 3% to 30% at high street shops including major super markets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via Mencap Extras
- Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc.
- Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
- Quarterly award scheme and recognition at every 5 years through our YouRock program
- Access to award winning training and development
*T&C's apply based on contract
About Mencap
We work in partnership with people with a learning disability, and all our services support people to live life as they choose. Everyone wants a purposeful job - to do something meaningful. At Mencap, we can give you that. You will have opportunities to develop as a person, colleague, leader and activist. We want to make you feel inspired to reach your potential.
Our work includes:
- providing high-quality, flexible services that allow people to live as independently as possible in a place they choose
- providing advice through our help lines and web sites
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