Team Leader
Mental Health | 1 |£21.20 per hour (incl. of Holiday Pay) | 2-3 months | Job Ref: BD9451 | Posted: 24/06/2026
Central Recruitment is currently recruiting for a Team Leader, to work in the Southwark area. The service provides high quality support to people who have a history of serious mental illness and drug and/or alcohol use.
The successful candidate will be required to work 37.5 hours per week, Monday - Friday 9AM - 5PM. Flexibility is required to occasionally work outside of these hours. Temporary cover is required for approximately 2-3 months. The pay rate is £18.92 per hour, with £2.28 holiday pay, totalling £21.20 per hour.
Please note; you may be required to work across other services in the South London area.
In this position, you will be required to:
- Lead and manage a small team of staff, ensuring supervisions, staff meetings, training and development are up to date
- Ensure staff work in a strengths-based, recovery focused, person centered and trauma informed manner with customers
- Ensure the services are adequately staffed, rota completed and managed effectively
- Participate in recruitment for vacancies
- Work collaboratively to support customers, including promoting their recovery, using a trauma informed approach, promoting support around independent life skills, social inclusion, training and education, maximising their income and move-on
- Work with internal and external services in setting up the new service to a high standard.
- Set up regular group work sessions with customers to assist with their recovery
- Manage incidents and safeguarding cases in line with procedures
- Ensure Health & Safety, security and Fire procedures are of high standards and in line with procedures and Health & Safety Law
- Communicate effectively with internal teams and external partners, produce weekly, monthly, and quarterly KPI's reports and attend KPI meetings as required
To apply for this role, you must have:
- Experience of effectively managing staff through regular meetings and nurturing staff to meet the requirements of their role.
- Relevant mental health and dual diagnosis experience and knowledge.
- Experience in managing budgets effectively
- Knowledge and experience of protecting vulnerable clients from abuse
- Knowledge of best practice in mental health in supporting our customers including the recovery approach and trauma informed approach
- Knowledge of outcome monitoring and meeting legal and contractual requirements
- Ability to supervise and manage a dispersed staff team
- Ability to communicate both verbally and in writing with staff, service users and external agencies
- Ability to write reports in a clear concise manner
- IT literacy of using databases and MS Office packages including Word, Excel and Outlook
Candidates must confirm their interest as soon as possible, with interviews scheduled shortly after and the appointed candidate expected to start Monday 6th July.
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