Service Manager Learning4living Dual Diagnosis

To ensure that needs and risk assessments for all potential new residents to Hope Supported Living are carried out in line with departmental procedures.

Ensuring Move On and Support Plans are person centred, maximising potential for service users progression.

To provide consistent and clear line management and leadership to the staffing and volunteer teams.

To work with the Service Manager Hand Up, Skills & Employability Lead and Head of Service Delivery to generate new approaches to support services in line with identified need.

Co-ordinating and managing a programme of support, training, therapeutic workshops and activities to enable service users to develop professional and life skills and increase confidence.

Ensuring exceptional standards of delivery in therapeutic group work with service users related to mental health, substance misuse and tenancy support/independent living skills.

Co-ordinating and managing the one-to-one support we offer to service users, using appropriate validating tools in order to measure their progress.

Networking with other organisations within and out of the homeless sector and pulling in their resources and expertise.

Building a cooperative and collaborative team that is flexible and adaptable to changing requirements.

Assigning work to team members, monitoring and supervising the day-to-day delivery and quality standards of the work.

Working alongside the Skills & Employability Lead to identify suitable service users for supported Work Based Learning, education & training or therapeutic groups/activities.

Leading by example, with exceptional case management and operational management skills to deliver against desired outcomes.

Providing professional guidance and coaching on case management to staffing team and arranging suitable training to meet team competences and capability.

Monitoring own and teams performance to ensure it meets expectations and agreed performance criteria, reporting variances to the Head of Service Delivery and implementing performance management procedures where necessary.

Participating in training and development opportunities as agreed with the Head of Service Delivery.

To provide regular line management, supervision and appraisal for staff, in line with organisational standards.

To co-ordinate the recruitment of staff and deliver an appropriate induction and ongoing professional development.

Act as a positive role model showing professional and caring attitudes and behaviour towards other team members, service users and partner agencies.

To ensure good practice in the support of the vulnerable adults we support.

To participate in regular team meetings and SMT meetings.

To improve the mental and physical wellbeing of people experiencing mental health and substance misuse in Northampton, encouraging access to treatment and continued engagement.

To be a leading agency of choice in progressive and preventative support services within the homelessness sector.

To deliver a leading package of support to all residents within our supported housing projects, enabling them to move on to settled housing.

To offer leading advocacy services.

To work with people who are not ready to accept treatment, to encourage and motivate them to consider options available to them, and to support clients who lack confidence/motivation.

To develop the services to meet the needs of this client group in conjunction with the Service Manager Hand Up , Skills & Employability Lead and the Head of Service Delivery.

Supporting clients in the service provided by the Hope Centre and identifying service users suitable for case management

To support, encourage and supervise service users who are involved in therapeutic workshops / groups.

Working alongside the volunteering coordinator and Service Managers to develop and grow the organisations volunteering opportunities (externally and for service users) with a high focus on services to support non English speaking service users.

Provide education and raise awareness to help service users manage factors that affect their mental health, substance misuse, tenancy sustainment, independent living skills and physical/mental wellbeing.

Listening to service users and encouraging positive steps towards personal development.

Providing advice, information, practical and emotional support to service users regarding their support.

Developing, alongside service users, flexible and realistic person centred plans within agreed guidelines.

Regularly reviewing and reporting findings of department caseloads.

Attend weekly Multi Agency Homelessness Pathway Panel, as appropriate, and represent Hope on a variety of forums, exchanging information and improving joint working and achieving better outcomes for people we support.

Work closely and collaboratively with support work partner agencies, ensuring a joined-up support offer, avoiding any unnecessary duplication of work and ensure an even distribution of the workload for shared outcomes.

All information must be maintained within GDPR regulations.

To be an active and effective Manager, driving the same from your teams.

To work some hours outside of normal office hours (including evenings and weekends and the on-call ROTA).

At all times to carry out every aspect of your duties with due regard to Northampton Hope Centres policies and procedures.

To ensure Northampton Hope Centres values are embedded in the service delivery.

To maintain a professional level of communication at all times.

To keep clear records and plans of all contacts with clients, professionals and meetings with external agencies.

Undertake other duties as may be reasonably determined by Head of Service Delivery, the CEO or Board of Trustees.

To participate in regular supervision and annual appraisal, and help identifying your own job-related development and training needs.

To raise and maintain service user records in terms of attendance to workshops and as required for case management.

To complete and file required records in line with the requirements from external funding bodies.

To complete reports to the Board of Trustees when requested.

To record, monitor and report on service user progress and outcomes.

**Essential** - Understanding of developing and delivering services within a support setting.

**Essential** - Understanding of the relationship between mental health and substance misuse and how these may impact on physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.

**Essential** - Knowledge and understanding of risk assessment and risk management in a mental health or substance misuse setting.

**Essential** - Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding procedures and reporting any relevant issues in a timely manner.

**Desirable** - Good understanding and awareness of housing and homelessness issues, including working with rough sleepers.

**Essential** - Minimum 2 years experience of line managing staff within a challenging work environment specifically within a mental health, substance misuse or homelessness/supported living setting.

**Essential** - Experience of developing and sustaining effective working relationships with, and working successfully in partnership with, other services and organisations.

**Essential** - Development and management of projects in either a Mental Health, Substance Misuse or Homelessness/independent living setting.

**Essential** - Proven experience of delivering and/or managing an efficient and effective casework management service in a Mental Health / Substance Misuse or Homelessness/independent living setting.

**Desirable** - An understanding of mental health conditions.

**Desirable** - Experience of running therapeutic activities and group processes.

**Desirable** - Experience in Motivational Interviewing techniques

**Desirable** - Awareness of local services

**Essential** - Ability to deal with stressful and dif