Supported Living Development Manager

Supported Living Development Manager Staffordshire Full Time, Permanent £38,000–£40,000

Do you want to shape Learning Difficulties services, WITHOUT holding the registration, then we have the opportunity for you!

What this role offers you

• Join a supported living provider as a Development Manager in Staffordshire, with a clear focus on growing and developing new services.
• Use your commercial judgement and commitment to quality to turn opportunities into support that makes a meaningful difference to people’s lives.
• Move towards development if you’re an experienced supported living manager, or bring your service development experience and strong understanding of the sector.
• Focus on building services and creating the conditions for them to succeed, rather than holding the service registration. This is not a Registered Manager post.

From opportunity to opening

You’ll help bring the different elements of a new service together, balancing local demand, individual support needs and operational readiness. Your work is likely to include:

• Identifying opportunities to develop supported living services across Staffordshire.
• Building relationships with commissioners, referral partners, housing providers and other relevant stakeholders.
• Exploring local needs and helping assess whether proposed services are suitable, sustainable and commercially viable.
• Contributing to service proposals, development plans and referral discussions.
• Working alongside operational colleagues to plan new services and support a well-organised launch.
• Keeping development activity moving, tracking progress and addressing practical barriers.
• Keeping people’s choices, independence and desired outcomes central to service design.

What you will need to bring:

• Relevant experience in supported living operations, service development, commissioning or business development within social care.
• An understanding of how good supported living services work in practice, and the ability to connect that understanding with opportunities for growth.
• Experience of opening services, developing referral relationships, contributing to tenders or working with housing partners would be particularly useful.
• The ability to build trust, organise competing priorities and follow an opportunity through from an initial conversation to a practical plan.
• Confidence discussing both the quality of support and the commercial considerations behind a sustainable service.

If you enjoy building services rather than solely managing established provision, this role offers you a clear development-focused remit.

Apply with your CV to be considered for the Development Manager role in Staffordshire