Team Manager
Mental Health | 1 WC2B |£21.24 per hour (incl. of Holiday Pay) | 2-3 months | Job Ref: BD9542 | Posted: 12/11/2026
Central Recruitment is currently recruiting for a Team Manager, to work in the Westminster area. The service provides support for people enduring mental ill health alongside homelessness.
The successful candidate will be required to work 37.5 hours per week, working Monday - Friday, 9AM - 5PM.Temporary cover is required for approximately 3 months. The pay rate is £18.95 per hour, with £2.29 holiday pay, totalling £21.24 per hour.
In this position, you will be required to:
- Line manage 5 staff members and 2 vacant posts.
- Deliver regular supervision, coaching and performance management, supporting staff wellbeing, professional development and reflective practice.
- Oversee the delivery of person-centred, psychologically informed and trauma-informed support that promotes client choice, dignity, independence and recovery.
- Provide guidance to staff in responding to mental ill health, multiple disadvantage and barriers to engagement, promoting compassionate and strengths-based approaches.
- Oversee safe and appropriate medication support, ensuring staff work within agreed procedures and do not undertake medication administration or secondary dispensing.
- Promote a strong safeguarding culture, ensuring staff recognise, respond to and appropriately escalate concerns about abuse, exploitation or harm.
- Provide leadership in responding to incidents, crises and challenging situations, ensuring timely decisions, appropriate interventions and opportunities for learning.
- Build and maintain effective relationships with community mental health teams, health professionals, local authorities and specialist agencies to strengthen coordinated support.
- Work collaboratively with referral partners to ensure appropriate referrals, effective transitions and access to services that meet clients' needs.
- Work alongside the Deputy Manager and Voids Team to minimise void periods, coordinate referrals and ensure accommodation is ready for occupancy within agreed timescales.
- Support effective budget management, monitoring expenditure, identifying financial pressures and making responsible use of service resources.
To apply for this role, you must have:
- Experience of supporting people experiencing homelessness, enduring mental ill health and multiple disadvantage, ideally within an accommodation-based service.
- Ability to lead, motivate and develop a diverse team, including providing constructive feedback, managing performance and supporting staff through challenging situations.
- Experience of delivering or overseeing person-centred support, including collaborative support planning, risk management, goal setting and advocacy.
- Confidence in responding to challenging situations, managing conflict and making proportionate, informed decisions under pressure.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to work effectively with clients, colleagues, statutory agencies and external partners.
- Strong understanding of psychologically informed environments, trauma-informed practice and different approaches to mental health, including medical and recovery-focused models.
- Knowledge of the mental health system, statutory and community support pathways, and relevant mental health and housing legislation.
- Understanding of safeguarding adults, risk assessment, positive risk-taking and multi-agency responses to concerns about safety and wellbeing.
- Knowledge of supported housing management, including referrals, voids, rent collection, arrears management and property-related responsibilities.
- Understanding of appropriate medication support boundaries within non-clinical supported accommodation services.
Candidates must confirm their interest as soon as possible, with interviews scheduled shortly after and the appointed candidate expected to start as soon as possible.
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