Team Manager - Outreach

Peabody is looking for a dedicated Team Manager to join our Outreach service where you ll lead and inspire a team providing essential support to some of the most vulnerable people in our communities. If you re a motivating leader with a strong sense of purpose, this could be the perfect next step in your career.

Your leadership will drive a culture of compassion, consistency and excellence, ensuring your team has everything they need to deliver meaningful, high quality support. This is an opportunity to shape a service that transforms lives empowering customers to maintain their tenancies, build independence, and feel connected.

About the role

The Outreach service supports individuals with long term or complex needs to live safely and independently within the community. As the Outreach Team Manager, you ll guide the team s day to day operations, oversee casework, strengthen partnerships, and champion continuous improvement. You ll work closely with partner agencies, internal colleagues and community organisations to make sure customers get the right support at the right time.

This is a meaningful, people focused role where you ll directly shape how support is delivered and see the impact of your work every day.

What you ll do

• Lead, motivate and support a team of Outreach staff to deliver exceptional, customer focused support.
• Overseeing high quality case management, assessments and risk processes
• Build productive relationships with external agencies and partners to maximise resources and opportunities for customers.
• Ensuring smooth service delivery, accurate reporting and effective data management
• Facilitate effective team communications through meetings, feedback, coaching and development.
• Supporting complex cases and promoting a positive, collaborative team culture
• Driving service improvements and contributing to new policies and processes
• Acting as a positive ambassador for Peabody at forums, meetings and events

What you ll need

• Experience supervising or managing staff, ideally in a support, housing or community based setting.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise a varied workload.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Confident communicating with customers, staff and partner organisations
• Knowledgeable about Outreach work, welfare benefits and issues affecting vulnerable people
• Ability to handle difficult situations and use de escalation and risk assessment techniques.
• IT literacy and experience with record keeping systems.
• A collaborative, approachable leadership style and a positive, can do attitude.
• Passionate about empowering others and delivering excellent service
• A full driving licence with access to your own vehicle is essential.

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:
This role requires an Enhanced DBS check and participation in an on-call rota, which will require occasionally to work unsociable hours to meet the needs of the service.

This is a part time role of 30 hours per week, to work across Monday to Friday. (Working hours TBD). You will also be part of an on-call rota, which is once a quarter.

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: 6th May 2026 at midnight. Interviews will take place in person at our Arcola Street (E8 2DJ) office no later than 23rd May 2026.

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