Job description

Job responsibilities

Post: Team Manager

Salary: £47,000 to £57,000 (incremental scale)

Location: Loftus Locality

Closing Date: 31st October 2026

With our current Team Manager retiring early next year, we are seeking an experienced leader for our supported living service in Loftus. The service enables people to live independently and successfully as tenants in their own homes, while our outreach provision helps people access their communities and pursue opportunities that improve their quality of life.

As Team Manager, you will provide operational leadership across the Loftus locality, ensuring safe, high-quality, person-centred support. You will inspire and develop the staff team, oversee service quality and build effective partnerships with the people we support, families, commissioners and health and social care professionals.

Do you want to lead within an innovative organisation that puts people at the forefront of everything it does?

This role offers the opportunity to help people reach their potential and achieve their aspirations.

Over the past ten years, PIPS has developed innovative, person-centred supported living solutions for people with learning disabilities, autistic people and people with mental health needs across Teesside, North Yorkshire and County Durham.

PIPS have a good reputation with commissioners, regulators, health and social care professionals, families and the people we support.

We are looking for someone who has the following skills and qualities:

• Ability to lead a large team of staff to provide excellent person-centred support.
• Proficient in the use of Positive Behavioural Support.
• Demonstrates innovation and creativity.
• Has a focus on quality to improve services.
• Resilience.

This is a highly rewarding and challenging role. You will lead a staff team to deliver excellent support that enables people to develop, grow and achieve positive outcomes.

Positive Behaviour Support is central to the PIPS model. Applicants must therefore be able to demonstrate competence in applying PBS to improve quality of life and support positive outcomes.

Candidates must hold either an RNLD, Social Work or equivalent professional qualification, or a Level 5 qualification in Leadership for Health and Social Care together with an additional PBS qualification.

All applicants must have a permanent right to work in the UK. For operational reasons, PIPS cannot accept applications from candidates whose right to work is time limited.

To apply, please submit your CV and a supporting statement explaining how your experience meets the requirements of the role by 31 October 2026.

If you have questions about this exciting opportunity, please contact [email protected]. We will put you in touch with a relevant senior manager who can provide further information about the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• - Professional Qualification RNLD
• - Positive Behavioural Support Qualification

Desirable

• - Student Nurse Mentorship
• - Diploma in Leadership Health & Social Care Level 5

Experience

Essential

• - Experience in a keyworker or primary nurse role
• - Working within the Positive Behavioural Support approach
• - Experience providing supervision and leading a staff team

Desirable

• None

Knowledge, Skills & Understanding

Essential

• - A good understanding of the CQC and KLOE
• - Understanding of quality assurance and audit
• - Ability to communicate with a wide range of individuals
• - Managing Budgets
• - Knowledge of the current national agenda in relation to people with learning disabilities
• - To understand the principles of equality and diversity

Desirable

• None

Personal Attributes

Essential

• - To have natural leadership attributes, to want to achieve high standards
• - Ability to work under own initiative and be organised
• - Demonstrate innovation and creativity
• - Have a good Self Awareness and are able to accept feedback from service users, colleagues and managers.
• - To enjoy the opportunity to develop and mentor others
• - Ability to work in a calm, patient and tolerant manner when working in stressful situations.
• - Able to work shifts covering 24 hours 7 days a week 365 days of the year

Desirable

• None

Physical Ability

Essential

• - Able to push a wheelchair outside, use of hoist
• - Able to complete the physical intervention training

Desirable

• None

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Positive Individual Proactive Support Limited

Address

Odd Fellows Hall

Zetland Road

Loftus

TS13 4XZ

United Kingdom

Employer's website

http://pips.support/ (Opens in a new tab)