Head of Independent Living

Head of Independent Living

We're looking for an experienced and inspiring leader to join Amplius as our Head of Independent Living. In this key leadership role, you'll be responsible for delivering our Independent Living strategy, ensuring high-quality, customer focused services that support people to live independently and thrive within their communities. You'll lead high performing teams, build strong partnerships with local authorities and stakeholders, drive service improvement and growth opportunities, and ensure services remain compliant, sustainable, and responsive to customer needs.

Salary: £72,034.08 (Plus car allowance of £5,661.02)

Contract: Permanent, Full Time

Your week: 36.25 hours - Monday to Friday 8:45am - 5:00pm with a 1 hour break

Location: Hybrid with a weekly presence at either our Milton Keynes, Rushden, Peterborough or Boston office

A full UK driving licence and willingness to travel regularly across our operating area, maintaining visibility within our schemes, is essential for this role.

Snapshot of your role

• Operational leadership across a range of services, ensuring they remain responsive to customer needs, local priorities and commissioning opportunities.
• Drive service excellence, ensuring customers receive high quality, person centred support.
• Lead and develop high performing teams across a diverse portfolio of Independent Living services.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with local authorities, commissioners, and partner organisations.
• Work closely with care and support providers and internal stakeholders, identifying opportunities for growth and ensuring services are financially sustainable, compliant and customer focused.
• Ensure compliance with contractual, regulatory and funding requirements while effectively managing risk and ensuring robust governance across services.
• Lead the implementation across our Independent Living portfolio of the Supported Housing Regulatory Oversight Act.
• Lead contract negotiations, tender submissions and funding arrangements.
• Identify and deliver opportunities for service growth, innovation and continuous improvement.

What we're looking for

• Proven experience leading complex operational services including Independent Living, Housing Related Support, Housing Management, Intensive Housing Management, Domestic Abuse or similar services.
• Strong experience managing and developing high performing teams within a customer focused environment.
• Excellent knowledge of housing, support, and regulatory frameworks, including experience working with commissioned services.
• A track record of building effective partnerships with local authorities, commissioners, care providers and other key stakeholders.
• Commercially aware, with experience managing budgets, contracts and delivering value for money.
• Skilled at identifying opportunities for service improvement, innovation and sustainable growth.
• Confident in managing risk, ensuring compliance and maintaining high standards of governance.
• An effective communicator who can influence, negotiate and build credibility with a wide range of audiences.
• CIH Level 4 qualified (or willing to work towards) with a commitment to continuous professional development.

DBS clearance, a full UK driving licence, access to your own vehicle and willingness to travel are all essential requirements for this role.

Benefits

• Flexible working
• Pension scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• State of the art IT equipment
• Volunteer days
• Life assurance
• Health cash plan
• Generous annual leave
• Career development

We do not provide visa sponsorship; you must be eligible to work in the UK and provide Right to Work evidence.