Team Manager - Mental Health

At Peabody, we re committed to supporting our most vulnerable tenants and communities to live well and independently. We provide specialist housing, care, and support to people who are socially excluded, disabled, unwell, or experiencing homelessness.

This service provides high quality, trauma informed support to people with dual diagnosis individuals with a history of serious mental illness alongside drug and/or alcohol use. This is a leadership role where your experience, compassion, and values will directly shape a service that makes a meaningful difference.

About the Role
As Team Manager, you ll lead and develop a dedicated team of support staff delivering recovery focused, person centred services. Working collaboratively with customers, staff, and partners, you ll ensure the service operates safely, effectively, and in line with best practice, contractual standards, and Peabody values.

You ll oversee a rota based staff team and play a key role in ensuring continuity, quality, and positive outcomes across the service. This role may also include participation in Mental Health out of hours on call arrangements, as required.

How You ll Make a Difference
You ll lead and shape a high quality, recovery focused service that supports people with mental health needs and dual diagnosis to live more independently and safely. Through strong leadership and collaboration, you ll ensure staff deliver person centred, trauma informed support that promotes wellbeing, harm minimisation, and positive move on outcomes. You ll also build strong partnerships with external agencies and continuously improve the service to achieve the best possible outcomes for customers.

What You ll Bring With You

• Experience of effectively managing and developing staff through regular supervision, meetings, and performance support
• Strong knowledge and experience within mental health and dual diagnosis services
• Confidence managing budgets, monitoring outcomes, and meeting legal, contractual, and regulatory requirements
• A clear understanding of safeguarding, with experience protecting vulnerable people from abuse and harm
• A sound knowledge of best practice in mental health support, including recovery focused and trauma informed approaches
• Excellent communication and organisational skills, including supervising dispersed or rota based teams, writing clear reports, and using IT systems such as databases and MS Office

This role operates Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm, with an on-call requirement on a rota basis (approximately every 6 weeks).

Why Join Us?
When you join Peabody, you re joining a team guided by our values, Be Kind, Do the Right Thing, Love New Ideas, Celebrate Diversity, Keep Our Promises, and Pull Together. We believe in creating a workplace where everyone feels supported, included, and empowered.

What we offer:

• 25 days annual holiday, plus bank holidays.
• Two additional paid volunteering days each year.
• Flexible benefits scheme, including family-friendly options and access to a discount portal.
• 4 x salary life assurance.
• Up to 10% pension contribution.
• Opportunities for professional development and growth.

Please read before applying:

• You must be eligible to work in the UK and able to work the full contracted hours of 37.5 hours per week.
• This role will require an enhanced DBS check.

If this sounds like we are right for you and you d love to be part of Peabody, we d like to hear from you. Please apply now by submitting an anonymised CV and a short statement explaining why you re the perfect fit for this role.

Closing date: 10th June 2026 at midnight. Interviews will be held place face to face Wednesday 24th - Friday 26th June 2026.

Please note: Peabody is not a licensed UK sponsor, so we re unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.