Area Manager

What will you do?

As an Area Manager you will work across a Suffolk with the option of being based in Ipswich, Bury or Haverhill, there is also an option of being beased from home though travel to the 10 schemes will be requried.

You will manage a team of 3 Service Managers and ensure the delivery of a high quality housing and support service. The focus of this role will be to ensure that our brilliant and varied services that offer support for young parents and young people along with Retirement Living schemes and a Military Corrective Traning Centre are delivered to a high standard and meet the agreed performance targets as well as ensure that the staff team are managed and trained effectively.

Day to day

Your key responsibilities as an Area Manager will include:

• Ensuring that the staff teams deliver ‘best practice’ housing and support service, appropriate to client’s needs.
• Conduct regular one to one supervision meetings, monitoring staff performance.
• Delivering clearly defined outcome targets for clients, ensuring quality assessments are consistently maintained to the highest level.
• Implementing policies and procedures to ensure effective service delivery.
• Developing and promoting the highest levels of client consultation, communication and partnership in all aspects of service delivery

For a deeper understanding of your responsibilities, take a look at the job description linked below.

Does this describe you?

You are flexible, empathetic, inclusive and resilient. Even better, you have excellent interpersonal and communication skills too. You will have experience of leading a team in a supported housing or social support setting and will have a very good understanding of finance and managing budgets

Click on the job description linked below to see a full list of our essential requirements.

What’s in it for you?

In return for your hard work and dedication, we offer you:

• Salary increase after 18 months’ service, dependent on performance
• Opt-in to our auto-enrolment pension scheme (employee rate 3% and employer rate 5%) or our enhanced pension scheme (employee rate 6% and employer rate 9%)
• 25 days holiday per year
• Access to ongoing personal career development opportunities through Learning Zone

Who are Riverside?

We are one of the UK’s leading social housing and regeneration organisations. We are a group of not-for-profit and commercial companies with a charitable housing association at our core. Operating across 150+ local authorities in England and Scotland and housing 90,000+ people, we are fully committed to improving the lives of thousands of individuals and families. We seek to transform lives and revitalise neighbourhoods.

Is Riverside for you?

We want you to feel empowered and that your voice is truly heard. Being a company focused on people, we treat our customers with this same respect. We trust you to protect our customers, our people and our business and we see outstanding worth in those with the courage to take responsibility, innovate and find solutions.

Your focus on performance and ambition is rewarded with development opportunities.

With Riverside, you can achieve. If you’re thinking of joining us as an Area Manager, we’d love to hear from you.

We encourage applicants from all sections of the community so that we can truly reflect the neighbourhoods in which we work.

Please follow the below link to apply - https://www.jobtrain.co.uk/riverside/displayjob.aspx?jobid=13586