We have an opportunity for a new colleague to join our St George’s House team as the manager of the service. We want to hear from you if you share our values and have the skills and experience to help shape and grow an established high support service for vulnerable young people in central Bristol. This is a chance to make your mark and bring your creativity, imagination and vision for service delivery, whilst still effective in working towards positive outcomes for young people.

Please find full details of how to apply via our website in the advert below. The deadline for application submissions is 23:59, Thursday 02 February 2023.

We are striving to better represent the young people we support and therefore are particularly keen to increase applications from ethnic minorities, Muslim and male candidates as they are currently under-represented in our organisation. We also encourage applications from people with relevant lived experience.

If you need an adjustment to be made to any part of the recruitment process, please let us know as soon as possible. 

Who are we?
We are a leading youth homelessness charity based in the Southwest, working with over 1,500 young people. At 1625ip we are driven by Social Justice and Passion: we strive to do something that matters and take pride in seeing the results of our work in social outcomes and improving young people’s lives.

What you will be doing:

• Using your skills and experience to line manage and/or coach a team to empower them to be at their best.
• Ensuring the smooth running of a 24-hour staffed supported accommodation scheme, from completing rotas, ensuring the building is safe & secure, landlord liaison, that project workers have the tools they need in order best support young people.
• By being well organised, effective, and efficient you will collate data and complete reports on a range of issue for internal and external partners.
• Using your problem-solving skills, you will support the team to ensure the safety and security of the scheme and those within, including managing challenging behaviour.
• You will be taking ownership of maintaining a positive rent culture, supporting, and empowering colleagues and young people in managing their accommodation charges.

You will be in the St Georges House Team and your line manager will be our Programme Manager (Accommodation).

At 1625ip we are led by our Competency Development Framework. This connects our values to our behaviours in everything we do and gives us the tools to develop. The framework ensures our recruitment is better informed, applications and interviews are behaviourally based, and job profiles are developed on the ‘how’ of a job. 

If you have transferrable skills and you are interested in this role, but you are worried about the application process, please get in touch with us. We encourage you to have an informal chat with the recruiting manager to discuss how your personal or professional experience and skills could be transferred to this role. Details of how you can do that are further down in this advert.

Contract details: 

• Hours per week: 40 (this represents full time hours)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay: £32,020 - £34,723 per annum (NJC scale 25 – 28 starting at the bottom of the scale).
• The location: You will be based at St George’s House in central Bristol, within easy access of public transport, but with car parking if required.  There is scope for flexible working.

A few benefits at 1625ip:

• A generous annual leave entitlement of 30 days per annum plus all Bank Holidays
• Employee Health Cash Plan with UK Healthcare (up to level 2)
• Our work is rooted in providing support in a Psychologically Informed way
• A supportive and approachable team with an emphasis on colleague wellbeing 
• A culture of mutual openness, shared values, understanding, friendliness, supportiveness and cooperation. (From Colleague Wellbeing Survey 2021)

Important dates: 

• Application deadline closes: 23:59, Thursday 02 February 2023.
• If you have not heard from us by the end of the day on Monday 06 February 2023, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. 
• Interviews are on Monday 13 February 2023.