Housing Services Manager

Are you passionate about helping young people build brighter futures? YMCA Robin Hood group provides temporary supported accommodation for young people aged 16+, refugees, unaccompanied asylum seeking children, children leaving care and vulnerable adults across Nottinghamshire in our network of transitionary homes and supported accommodation. As we seek to enhance our existing services, we are introducing a new Housing Services Manager position for Commissioned Services, working across Mansfield, Ashfield and Nottingham City with our 16+ services. The focus for this role is to coordinate and oversee successful outcomes for our young people aged 16-23, ensuring they have access to education or employment, increase their independence skills and have access to quality accommodation. Our 16+ Commissioned Services are registered with Ofsted so you will be responsible for ensuring compliance with Supported Accommodation Regulations as well as ensuring compliance with Contractual requirements.

Location: Working across our Mansfield, Ashfield and Nottingham locations Salary: £43,006 Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

The Role

This is an opportunity to lead a well-established service while influencing its future direction. You'll have the autonomy to drive improvements, shape service delivery, build strong partnerships and make a lasting difference to young people's lives. On a day to basis, you can expect your role to include:

• Lead a team of 3 Housing Services Support Managers, ensuring they are meeting their KPI’s in line with the commissioned contracts with Nottinghamshire County Council and giving our young people all the support they require to achieve positive outcomes, using the homelessness outcome star framework.
• Manage and oversee safeguarding incidents including attending multi-agency meetings with Social Care and other statutory partners.
• Work closely with the Maintenance and Domestic teams to ensure properties are both turned around quickly for new residents but also are maintained to a high standard.
• Be pro-active in managing metrics and KPIs, ensuring your teams are working to high standards through completing regular quality audits of support plans, risk assessments and other KPI areas.
• Manage quarterly contract reviews with Commissioners including providing data and analysis around KPIs and ensuring compliance with the 16+ contracts.
• Ensure compliance with Supported Accommodation Regulations communicating with Ofsted as required.

This is a very varied role where truly, no two days are the same. You will be highly supportive of the teams that you directly and indirectly manage and look to bring everyone on the same journey of development and improvement; instilling a desire in everyone to do the very best they can to drive those positive outcomes for our young people.

About You

From a background in supported accommodation or children’s residential, you will be able to bring knowledge and understanding of supported accommodation regulations, the challenges our young people face as well as an awareness of the support that our young people can expect from other partner agencies.

You will be motivated by your desire to make a positive impact on our young people and you will passionately share our belief that everyone should have a fair chance to discover who they are who they can become. You will be self motivated and driven create continual development/process improvement.

You will be a brilliant communicator; whether dealing with your staff or our young people, you will be able to inspire, engage and motivate. You will be confident in 1-2-1 communication and in group settings, able to represent your service area at team and wider organisation meetings.

You might already have team leaderships skills from a previous role or looking to make that first step into management, we are happy to support your development. You will be supported to complete a Level 3 Housing qualification if you don’t already have this.

It is desirable that you have a full driving licence (as travel between our sites is required) but these can be accessed by public transport across Nottinghamshire.

What We Value

We’re driven by our core values and we look for these in every member of our team:

• We Seek Out – We’re always looking for ways to do better.
• We Welcome – We include, respect, and support everyone.
• We Inspire – We believe in every person’s potential.
• We Speak Out – We advocate for what’s right.
• We Serve Others – We act with compassion and purpose.

Our Benefits

We value your commitment and relentless dedication and have crafted a package of health & well-being benefits. Here’s some of what you can expect:

• 23 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), increasing to 28 days with service
• Funded training, qualifications & career progression across YMCA services
• Quarterly Campfires – celebrating our impact across the organisation
• Wellbeing package (after passing probation): 24/7 GP access, health/dental cashback, Employment Assistance Programme
• Discounted YMCA childcare & holiday clubs
• £500 refer-a-friend bonus
• Blue Light Card eligibility + 10% discount at YMCA Café and Malt Cross

Diversity & Safer Recruitment

YMCA Robin Hood Group is committed to equal opportunities, promoting diversity, and creating an inclusive culture where all staff can thrive. Should you require any adjustments to support your full participation in our recruitment process, we would encourage you to share your needs with us so we can support you with your requirements. Please contact our recruitment team in the first instance. We follow rigorous safer recruitment processes to ensure the protection of children, young people, and adults at risk. All applicants will be subject to a DBS checks, reference checks, and thorough vetting as part of our commitment to safeguarding.