ABOUT OUTWARD.

For 50 years, Outward has been providing high-quality support and care services to vulnerable people across London, predominantly in North East London. Established by families seeking alternatives to institutional care, we’ve grown into a respected provider of person-centred support for adults with learning disabilities, autism, mental health needs, and complex needs. We support over 1,000 people across nine boroughs, guided by our core values: engage, enable, and empower.

HOW TO APPLY

The above is not an exhaustive list of requirements for the role.
If you think you are who we are looking for, please submit a CV and statement detailing how you feel your experiences meets the requirements of the role by referring to the Job Responsibilities and the Person Specification.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a proactive and passionate Team Manager to join our dedicated team supporting adults with a range of needs including learning disabilities, autism and/or complex needs. This role offers a unique opportunity to combine direct care responsibilities with service coordination and leadership duties.
The role would involve managing our Learning Disability / Autism supported living services located in Newham. The services are either small to medium shared houses. The services are designed to support the skills building needed to increase the independence of people with autism and/or learning disabilities and behaviours of concern.
You’ll provide high quality care and support, while also managing elements of service delivery such as support planning, key working, rota oversight, and staff guidance. You will work closely with the Deputy or Team Manager and play an active role in ensuring our services are person-centred, well-managed, and aligned with Outward’s core values of engage, enable, and empower.
As a Team Manager, you will play a key role in empowering the people we support to live independent and fulfilling lives.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

As a team Manager you will:

• You will assess new referrals and develop and manage comprehensive transition, move-in, support & risk plans.
• You will be required to build and maintain strong relationships and partnership approach with families and involved professionals and stakeholders.
• You will develop, coach and mentor a positive and resilient team of support workers and deputies to deliver high quality and personalised support and embed a culture of positive behaviour support.
• You will be responsible for ensuring support is delivered innovatively, flexibly and on a person centred basis to meet the needs and outcomes of the people supported.
• You will be responsible for delivering the service within budget and within expected performance indicators including delivering on outcomes for the people supported
• You will be responsible for ensuring the service is safe, effective, caring, well led, responsive and managed to meet CQC essential standards to a minimum of good service and with the aim of achievement of outstanding.

Staff must have access to a smartphone capable of receiving SMS messages and installing authentication apps for secure systems access