Head of Supported Living Gloucestershire Hertfordshire

Full Time Permanent

Hours: 37.5 hours/ week

Closing Date 5th May 2025

1st Interview W/C 12th May 2025 (Remote)

Stakeholder Interview W/C 19th May 2025 (Remote)

2nd interview 19th/ 20th May 2025 (In person will be at one of the locations above)

Within this new role the Head of Supported Living will be responsible for overseeing and developing supported living services for adults with learning disabilities within the charity.

The role ensures that services are personcentred highquality and compliant with regulatory and organisational standards while empowering individuals to live independently and achieve their goals.

Leading culture and change with experience integrity collaboration and transparency sits at the heart of the role. The role responsibilities will ensure that the Trust is able to support more people with a learning disability autism and mental health problems to lead healthy active and equal lives.

Our ambition is to become a leader in social and green care integration through the alignment of the personalisation agenda technological enhancement and advancement and holistic health and wellbeing. To achieve this ambition we will transform our services to ensure that they are effective efficient and impact and outcomes focussed.

The role will be responsible for continuous value for money service enhancement and will deliver significant growth ensuring close and meaningful relationships with authorities commissions and private markets resulting in increased funding and healthy waiting lists for the homes and services provided. The post will be responsible for a significant budget and will require the financial acumen to manage this effectively.

As a direct report to a member of the Executive Management Team (EMT) the role becomes a member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and will be pivotal in delivering an ambitious transformation agenda and delivering the charities Brilliant Future Strategy.

What youll bring to the role:

• Professional Housing Qualification level 5 or above with knowledge of housing management and housing legislation.
• Safeguarding Adults Level 5 or equivalent / Leadership in Health and Social Care level 5 or equivalent are desirable not essential to the role
• Experience of leading housing management services within a context of delivering supported living.
• Experience and knowledge of Care Quality Commission regulations as they relate to supported living would be a distinct advantage.
• Experience of working and leading teams in not for profit and voluntary sector organisations which deliver services for adults with learning disabilities and autism.
• Experience in coaching and mentoring for success.
• Experience in significant budget management responsibilities.
• Experience in seeking new growth opportunities that are aligned to business strategy.
• Significant experience of managing change successful service redesign and transformation in particular lean thinking and other typical models.
• Experience of successfully leading teams to affect and embed change through powerful communications and engagement.
• Experience in the development and implementation of policy and procedure.
• Experience of leading teams over a wide geographical location combining hybrid working styles.

Location & Travel Hertfordshire Gloucestershire and Worcestershire

The role will cover our communities at Stourbridge (West Midlands) Gange Village & Oaklands Park (Gloucestershire) and St Albans & Delrow Watford (Hertfordshire). You will be based at one of the communities within the region with regular travel between all our communities. You will be required to attend quarterly Leadership Away days and other meetings which will require overnight stays.

Excited Read our pack look at our strategy and know that you would be joining an amazing Trust a brilliant team and that you would have the ability to make a real difference.

Your application should include your CV and a supporting statement of no less than one page detailing why you would like to work for the Trust and how your skills and experience meet the job description and person specification (see attached Job pack).

INDHIGH

Established in 1954 Camphill Village Trust is a charity that supports adults with learning disabilities autism and mental health challenges. In our 70thyear we honour our past provide for the present and will lead the future.

Our focus on humanity and nature was inspired by our past and remains as key to the Trusts ethos today. This is reflected in our focus on social and green care integration valuing everyones contribution enabling personal pathways to development celebrating the changing seasons and respecting the rhythm of natural life.

We operate in both rural and urban communities building on our care (social) farming legacy. Our historical focus on enabling potential for people with support needs through farming organic horticulture and enterprise centred on nature and traditional skills continues to play to our strengths.