Lead with purpose. Support change. Help people rebuild their lives.
Langley has a fantastic opportunity for a compassionate, resilient, and proactive Deputy IAP Manager with good communication and interpersonal skills to join our newly formed team in Poole. This role is a permanent full time role working 37 hours per week. The successful candidate will receive a salary of £40,179 per annum.
REWARDS PACKAGE
- 30 days annual leave
- Pension scheme with employer contributions matched up to 8%
- Life assurance up to 3 times your salary
- SmartHealth 24/7 online GP service
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, including counselling and legal advice
- Funded Health Cash Plan
- Flexible benefits package, including Holiday Trading and Cycle Scheme
- Enhanced maternity pay and menopause support
- Paid DBS checks and renewals
- Access to Blue Light Card discounts and Long Service Awards
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide strategic leadership and oversight of Care and Supported Living services, ensuring they are safe, high-quality, financially sustainable and aligned with Langley’s Christian mission and values.
- Lead care referral pathways and placement decisions, ensuring referrals are assessed promptly, robustly and with clear consideration of risk, funding, service capacity and long-term sustainability.
- Use referral, occupancy, income and placement data to inform forecasting, performance improvement, service planning and sustainable growth across care services.
- Oversee care income, contracts, package reviews and commissioner relationships to support financially sustainable services and positive outcomes for clients.
- Provide senior leadership on psychology provision, trauma-informed practice, Enabling Environments learning and specialist care model development across the Trust.
- Represent the Trust professionally with commissioners, funders, health, social care, criminal justice and faith-based stakeholders, promoting Langley’s reputation as a specialist values-led provider.
ABOUT YOU
- Compassionate and values-driven leader with a genuine desire to support disadvantaged people, including those with experience of offending, substance misuse, or complex needs, while upholding Christian values and promoting equality and inclusion.
- Experienced and resilient professional with a background in , criminal justice, prison, probation, or similar environments, confident in managing challenging behaviours, leading teams, and delivering positive outcomes in demanding settings.
- Organised and proactive team player with strong communication skills, the ability to manage budgets, staff and workloads effectively, and a flexible approach to working collaboratively across agencies, adapting to change, and supporting service development.
The successful candidate will be a practicing Christian who will create an environment where people feel valued, empowered and equipped to do their best work. This person will play a full part to further the organisational aims and provide strong Christian leadership to allow Langley to be a leader within the different sectors in which it operates. The postholder will always uphold the Trust’s Christian ethos and Christ like culture and therefore there is an occupational requirement for the post holder to be a practicing and professing Christian under the Equality Act 2010.
Please note that the successful candidate will need to be happy to adapt to change and flexible in their duties. No one day will be the same so the ability to refocus frequently is important.
We reserve the right to close earlier if we receive sufficient applicants.
A satisfactory enhanced DBS check with adult barred list and BPSS check is required for this role and job offers will be subject to the Trust receiving satisfactory evidence of the successful applicant’s right to work in the UK.
This role is eligible for consideration under the Employee Referral Scheme. For further information around the referring principals and scope, please consult the Employee Referral Scheme Guide.
