Connect To Work Team Supervisor

Job description

Are you passionate about inclusive employment and skilled in leading impactful, target-driven programmes?

We are seeking a proactive and experienced manager to be our Connect to Work team to deliver a high quality, inclusive supported employment service for Brighton & Hove.

You will lead a dedicated team, engage stakeholders, and use data informed approach to drive perfromance, enhance service users outcome, and support individuals with complex barriers into sustainable employment. This is a strategic and operational leadership role, requiring a strong understanding of supported employment models, safeguarding, service delivery, and inclusive service design.

This is a fixed term contract running until the end of March 2029

Interviews to be held: w/c 5 October 2026

There is full information about the role below and attached but, if you would like an informal discussion, please contact Eleanor Stewart by email at [email protected] .

What you will be doing

• Lead the Connect to Work Delivery Plan for Brighton & Hove, ensuring high quality, inclusive supported employment services
• Manage a team, oversee recruitment and onboarding, and support ongoing professional development
• Design and deliver service compliant with supported employment, fidelity models, facilitating audits and implementing recommendations
• Monitor performance, track key indicators, and manage delviery risks
• Build partnerships with employers, health services, voluntary sector, and council teams to generate referrals and opportunities
• Oversee stakeholder engagement to reach clients and employers across the city
• Ensuring compliance with safeguarding legislation, data protection, and council policies
• Delvier the programme within budget and manage financial controls

We are looking for someone who can demonstrate

• Experience in performance monitoring, budget management, and outcome evaluation
• Knowledge of national policy reforms relating to skills, employment and welfare rights
• Understanding of local labour marker dynamics and employer engagement strategies
• Excellent awareness of supported employment models (e.g. Individual Placement Support (IPS) and Supported Employment Fidelity Models (SEQF)
• Strong Leadership, interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of service delivery

About Connect to Work

Connect to work is an exciting new employment programme across West Sussex and Brighon & Hove. The programme is funded by the Department for Work and Pensions and is part of the governments Get People Working Plan to support people facing barriers to work

Participants will come from a range of groups who without support would not be able to find or sustain work. They include young people, people with mental health challenges or disabilities, care leavers, homeless people, veterans and refugess. Through mentoring, coaching and using the Supported Employment model, the programme will help residents to find work.

Encouraging a diverse workforceOur city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

Why work for us?As a council, we want to:
• be connected
• be confident
• be innovative and creative
• be diverse and inclusive
• be healthy and psychologically safe
For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.

How to apply Please read our Apply for a job at the council pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you've submitted your application and at interview.

As part of your application, you will need to provide your education and career history and answer some application/shortlisting questions. Your answers to the application/shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.

AI advice for candidates
We are interested in hearing about your experience and skills in your own words. While we value people who know how to use AI, we ask that you minimise using it in your application.

We are keen to hear how your experience and skills align to our values and the skills and experience needed to perform well in our roles with clear real examples from you. To support you in this, we have guidance on using the STAR model which can help you ensure you are telling us your whole story. We also provide clarity on the skills we are looking for in our adverts and in the job description/person specification attached to each job advert.

All the applications we receive are read by at least two hiring managers and we do not use AI in this process. Our experience of reading applications is that those that have heavily used AI contain generic paragraphs that are strikingly similar to other applicants' responses. This makes it extremely difficult to differentiate between applications, and doesn't give us enough evidence of your individual skills. There is a risk that we will therefore not be able to shortlist you. Instead, we recommend you ensure your application stands out by presenting clear examples of your actual skills and experiences in your own words.

Additional informationYour starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.