Leading And Engaging a Team

• Line manage a team and create a safe environment where colleagues can talk openly and honestly.
• Work together to set expectations and performance targets.
• Hold regular ‘one-to-one’ sessions to reflect on achievements, performance and support individual personal wellbeing.
• Undertake six monthly performance reviews to support and guide colleagues to fulfil their potential.
• Facilitate regular team meetings to update and empower your team to share ideas and best practice.
• Embrace reflective practice techniques so the team can learn from their experiences.
• Recognising, praising and acknowledging achievements of colleagues and team.
• Build effective partnerships with regional and other colleagues across Riverside, participating in wider initiatives.

Leading a Service

• Manage the service as per contractual requirements, reviewing contract performance annually, to deliver excellent outcomes for customers.
• Meet Riverside performance targets.
• Participate in the setting and management of service budgets. Monitor spend by accessing the finance system and report budget variances to the budget holder.
• Resource, plan and deliver a colleague rota that covers all shifts effectively.
• Recruit great people for your team, sourcing and engaging relief or agency workers as and when required.
• Devise, plan and deliver a comprehensive induction and continuous development plans for all colleagues.
• Be responsible for cash handling, ordering goods, administration of monthly timesheets, raise and approve invoices through accurate record keeping.
• Produce reports and other written documentation as required to support contract delivery. Ensure compliance with Health and Safety legislation and other regulatory obligations, assessing risk, putting in control measures and reporting risks.
• Work with customers and colleagues to deliver the objectives within Riverside’s corporate plan.
• Actively build positive relationships with all key stakeholders by attending forums, tasks groups and networking events to promote and position Riverside as the preferred provider in the area.

Housing And Income Management

• Manage and report responsive repairs and liaising with contractors.
• Monitor that welfare checks of customers rooms are being carried out.
• Working in partnership with asset and compliance colleagues to ensure our properties are safely managed.
• Manage empty properties, ensuring that they are referred to asset colleagues for void work and follow void procedure to ensure rooms are ready to let.
• Lead on hearing appeals, serving notice and ending of tenancies as per Riverside policy framework.
• Manage an effective housing allocation and referral pathway into the service, ensuring customers are able to access the service as quickly as possible.
• Manage the rental income for the service by ensuring the team collect rent payments from customers and manage any arrears to minimise any losses
• Deliver a tenancy sustainment and advice service to customers, by maximising their income i.e. claiming correct benefits, ensuring that the team support customers to maintain their tenancy through effective budget management.

Supporting Customers

• Lead your team to provide a person centred, service for customers in line with our psychologically and trauma informed approach
• Promote the highest levels of customer consultation, communication and partnership working in all aspects of service delivery.
• Work with your team to ensure customers are supported to achieve their ambitions and aspirations through creative support planning and a flexible approach.
• Continuously develop relationships and networks with a range of stakeholders, including housing providers to identify pathways to plan and deliver positive move-ons.
• Involve and engage customers in the design and delivery of all aspects of the service, including encouraging participation in internal audits
• Work with your team to continuously identify and build relationships with community resources and promote multi-disciplinary working to enhance the service for customers.
• Guide your team to record customer information on Riverside and relevant local or external digital platforms, ensuring information is clear, accurate and strengths-based.
• Enable customers to move towards self-management of their medication through adherence to medication management procedures.
• Handle complaints and reports of anti-social behaviour transparently, ensuring customers are kept up-to-date with progress and a culture of continuous improvement is embedded.

Other Duties

• You will be required to work flexibly to meet customer and business needs, which may include out-of-hour working and participating in an “on-call” rota.
• Undertake regular training and take responsibility for continuous development to enable you to deliver your role safely.
• Use the Lone Worker system as and when necessary.
• Ensure customers are safe at all times - carrying out all of your duties within Riverside’s Policy and Procedure Policy and Procedure framework e.g. health & safety, safeguarding, dignity at work, GDPR, cash handling, etc.
• Deliver your role in line with Riverside company values – “Our Riverside Way”.
• Participate in team meetings, attend regular supervisions and reflective practice sessions.
• From time to time you may be required to undertake additional duties and responsibilities in consultation with your Line Manager.

Additional Information

• The Group has offices across the UK and on this basis, there may be the requirement to travel to other locations to effectively perform this role.
• The role will be exposed to sensitive information; therefore, the role holder is expected to maintain levels of confidentiality at all times.
• In order to fulfil the requirements of this role, you will be required to work flexibly during the hours of operation.
• The role holder is expected to be committed to equal opportunities and to promote non-discriminatory practices in all aspects of work undertaken.

Person specification

Essential Knowledge & Experience

• Previous experience of working that is relevant to mental health
• Experience working in community settings therapeutically, including assessments, designing interventions and demonstrating outcomes.
• Experience of developing clinical interventions for both staff and customers.
• Basic level of IT skills
• Knowledge of the Housing, Care and Support Sectors
• Knowledge and understanding of up to date legislation and government frameworks relevant to mental health
• Sound knowledge and understanding of issues affecting individuals relevant to mental health
• Sound knowledge of safeguarding procedures for adults and children
• Knowledge of health and safety issues in relation to mental health
• Experience of assessment, risk management and support planning relevant to mental health
• Experience of fostering and maintaining positive working relations internally and externally
• Ability to promote customer involvement, choice and diversity
• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing including the preparation of letters, reports and file notes.
• A relevant professional qualification in the area of expertise (i.e. drug and alcohol, counselling, psychology