Role: Area Manager - Prevention Salary / Grade: £46,287 per annum / H Hours: 37.5 per week Location: Employment Academy – Camberwell Contract type: Fixed Term – 12 months (Maternity cover) Closing date: 15/10/2023 Interview date: 30/10/2023 Whatever your experience of street homelessness and its impact on people’s lives – personal or professional – when you join the Thames Reach team as an Area Manager, 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 10,000 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 an Area Manager to join our Operational Management Team to lead our Employment and Skills projects and our Homelessness Prevention service delivery. You will: • Support the objectives of Thames Reach to help people who are homeless or vulnerable to find decent homes, build supportive relationships and lead fulfilling lives. • Be responsible for a range of teams within a functional area which may change. Reporting to the Area Director, they will be a key member of the Operational Management Team and will enable Thames Reach to achieve the highest standards and effectiveness in service delivery to rough sleepers and other vulnerable people needing support. • Support Thames Reach’s mission through skilled leadership of high quality and effective services. Directly line managing team managers. • Monitor and improve outcomes, and ensure the improvement of service effectiveness and implementation of best practice. • Work to secure new business for the organisation, through both competitive tendering and co-production of new services with a range of commissioners. • Responsible for supervision, development and line management of employees, ensuring high standards of delivery, and best practice is adopted across the teams. • Optimise the use of resources allocated to the teams, including appropriate and robust financial procedures. To succeed as the Area Manager, you will have: • Experience of managing services that works effectively with people with a range of support needs using person centred and outcome based approach. Within budget and meeting targets. • A demonstrable commitment to providing the highest standards of services for people experiencing homelessness, or other multiple disadvantage. • Demonstrable experience of managing and leading employees ideally working at different locations. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Experience of successfully managing change processes, ensuring services deliver a strategically relevant service. • Experience of developing, managing, and sustaining relationships with a wide range of organisations, such as, commissioners and other managers, housing providers, statutory and non-statutory agencies. Previous applicants need not apply. We are listed in the top 100 UK Best Workplaces 2022 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. • 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, Fiona Sutherland at [email protected] 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.