Are you passionate about supporting young people to build brighter futures? Do you want to play a leading role in an exciting new service that helps prevent homelessness and creates opportunities for young people leaving care or unable to live at home?

This is your chance to be part of something truly innovative.

As Team Manager, you will help shape and develop Gap Homes Glasgow, a pioneering supported accommodation service that provides young people with safe, high-quality homes and the support they need to thrive, grow in confidence, and move towards independence.

Based in Glasgow, you will lead a dedicated team supporting young people across a newly developed accommodation service and through outreach support in the community. This is more than a management role. It is an opportunity to influence lives, build relationships, and create positive change every day.

About Gap Homes

Gap Homes is an innovative UK-wide Barnardo's initiative transforming housing and support options for vulnerable young people.

We know that the right home can change a life. By providing safe, high-quality accommodation alongside consistent, trauma-informed support, Gap Homes aims to reduce homelessness, prevent crises, and help young people build stable and successful futures.

The Glasgow Service

Located in Maryhill, this exciting new development features four self-contained tenancies designed to provide a safe and supportive environment where young people can grow in independence while receiving tailored support.

The service is part of Barnardo's wider supported accommodation network in Glasgow, offering access to established services, expertise, offices, and additional supported housing provision.

Alongside accommodation-based support, the team will provide outreach and floating support to young people living in the wider community, helping them maintain tenancies, strengthen life skills, and achieve their goals.

The Opportunity

As Team Manager, you will have a pivotal role in establishing and leading this service. Working alongside the Service Manager, you will help build a high-performing team, shape practice, and ensure young people receive outstanding support.

You will oversee:

Referrals, assessment and admissions
Care planning and reviews
Multi-agency partnership working
Risk assessment and safeguarding
Planned transitions and move-on support
Outreach and floating support services
Supervision, coaching and development of staff

We're looking for a motivated, resilient and compassionate leader who understands the challenges many young people face and believes in their potential.

Most importantly, you'll share our belief that every young person deserves the opportunity to feel safe, valued and hopeful about their future.

If you're excited by the opportunity to lead an innovative service, support young people through some of the most important transitions in their lives, and be part of a team committed to changing futures, we'd love to hear from you.

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible

Pay & Reward Framework

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.

Benefits

Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
Service related sick pay from day 1
Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
Cycle2work scheme
Interest free season ticket loans
Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
20% discount at Barnardo's stores
Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

T&C's apply based on contract

About Barnardo's

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

Our basis and values