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Your leadership will ensure that each service delivers high quality, person-centred support that helps people build stability, resilience, and independence.\nYou’ll lead and develop teams to create a culture of care, learning, and continuous improvement. By modelling our organisational values, you’ll promote excellence and collaboration across all services, ensuring we meet our legal, regulatory, and safeguarding responsibilities.\nSuccess in this role means achieving positive outcomes for the people we support, empowering staff to thrive, and driving consistent, high quality service delivery across your area.\nWhat You’ll Do\nModel our organisational values and leadership behaviour that sets the tone for leaders/managers across the organisation.\n\nCreate a culture of excellence and care which is collaborative and actively demonstrates our commitment to the people we support, and our core purpose.\n\nDemonstrate and lead a culture of development, learning and continuous improvement so that everyone can thrive.\n\nMaintain constant awareness of both the external and internal landscape, horizon scanning for growth opportunities and new developments.\n\nTo Succeed in This Role, You’ll Need:\nStrong leadership and management skills - the ability to inspire, develop and support teams, promoting a culture of excellence, learning, and collaboration across multiple services.\n\nKnowledge and experience in mental health and substance misuse services - understanding the challenges faced by individuals and how to deliver person-centred, recovery-focused support within housing and community settings.\n\nStrategic and operational awareness - confidence in managing resources, maintaining compliance with legal and regulatory standards, and driving continuous improvement to achieve positive outcomes for both staff and service users.\n\nUnderstanding of Local Government Reorganisation - an awareness of the current and emerging local government landscape, including the implications of Local Government Reorganisation for health, social care, housing, commissioning and community-based services. The ability to horizon scan, understand changing local authority structures and priorities, and identify opportunities to develop effective partnerships and respond to changes in commissioning and service delivery.\n\nFor the full job description and personal specification, please click here.\nPlease note: The salary listed reflects the full earning potential for this role. Starting salaries depend on experience and progression within the band.\nAbout Waythrough\nWaythrough was formed in 2024 following the merger of Humankind and Richmond Fellowship. Together, we’ve created one of the largest mental health and social support charities in England.\nEvery year, we support around 125,000 people through nearly 200 services - and it’s all made possible by our 3,500 brilliant staff and volunteers.\nMake a real difference in your community\nAre you passionate about helping others live safer, healthier, more independent lives? 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