Homelessness Prevention and Community Wellbeing Service Manager
The Vacancy
Proposed Interview Date: Thursday 8th October 2026
The role
Petrus is seeking a passionate and experienced Homeless Prevention and Community Wellbeing Service Manager to lead the delivery of our diverse community services, including the Petrus Hub, PIER Community Garden, Homelessness Prevention Team, Town Centre Outreach Service and Fundraising Team.
You will provide inspirational leadership to staff and volunteers, ensuring high quality, strengths based and person-centred support that empowers people experiencing homelessness, poverty and social exclusion.
Working collaboratively with partners and stakeholders, you will drive service excellence, achieve positive outcomes and help strengthen communities across Rochdale, supporting individuals to build resilience, independence and brighter futures.
The right fit
Petrus provides support services for people facing homelessness or in housing need. We are a charitable organisation and deliver both drop in and residential services in Rochdale and Oldham.
We believe people should have access to safe, secure, quality housing. We help people to develop skills, independence and make positive choices. We believe collaboration with other agencies and organisations is key to creating a world where everyone has a safe place to live.
Petrus is part of The Regenda Group; we work in places where we can make a difference and operate across the housing and construction sector, in care and support, and in education, training and careers.
Next steps
If you like what you've read so far and think you've got what it takes to join our team, then apply now with a copy of your CV and a short covering letter detailing why you think you would be a good fit the role.
Our Talent Acquisition team will review your application and will be in touch shortly.
What we offer
Petrus really is a great place to work - and you don't have to just take our word for it! We're accredited by Best Companies for our 'world class' levels of staff engagement and have been consistently named as one of the Best Companies to Work For in the North West.
We can offer you a working environment where you can enjoy yourself, develop yourself and be yourself and where you really can make a difference to people's lives.
We also offer a fantastic reward and benefits package which includes:
We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from disabled and minority ethnic candidates as they are currently under-represented within our organisation.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, we'd encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.
INDHP
The Company
Petrus provides residential and day support services to people who are homeless or in housing need. It offers a safe environment where people can develop their skills and independence to empower change.
People often find it difficult to know where to go and who to ask for help, and we try and make this as easy as possible.
We engage with individuals and start to build a relationship with them, which is key to building trust and facilitating positive choices.
We encourage individuals to access appropriate support and can refer them into housing.
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- Annual salary of £39,822 (FTE)
- Permanent role
- Full-time (37 hours), part-time and flexible working patterns available
- Based in Rochdale, hybrid working
Proposed Interview Date: Thursday 8th October 2026
The role
Petrus is seeking a passionate and experienced Homeless Prevention and Community Wellbeing Service Manager to lead the delivery of our diverse community services, including the Petrus Hub, PIER Community Garden, Homelessness Prevention Team, Town Centre Outreach Service and Fundraising Team.
You will provide inspirational leadership to staff and volunteers, ensuring high quality, strengths based and person-centred support that empowers people experiencing homelessness, poverty and social exclusion.
Working collaboratively with partners and stakeholders, you will drive service excellence, achieve positive outcomes and help strengthen communities across Rochdale, supporting individuals to build resilience, independence and brighter futures.
The right fit
- Experience managing services within the homelessness, housing or local authority sector.
- Experience of managing multiple funding streams with diverse outcomes.
- Experience of leading and developing high performing teams to achieve positive outcomes.
- Experience of delivering person centred, strengths-based services for vulnerable and complex service users.
- You have experience of partnership working with local authorities, health services, housing providers and community organisations.
- Experience of managing service performance, budget, resources and compliance requirements.
- Safeguarding for adults and vulnerable experience.
- You have strong leadership and people management skills.
- Excellent communications, interpersonal and relationship building skill .
- Strong organisational and time management skills.
- Effective problem solving, decision making and conflict resolution skills.
- Good IT skills.
Petrus provides support services for people facing homelessness or in housing need. We are a charitable organisation and deliver both drop in and residential services in Rochdale and Oldham.
We believe people should have access to safe, secure, quality housing. We help people to develop skills, independence and make positive choices. We believe collaboration with other agencies and organisations is key to creating a world where everyone has a safe place to live.
Petrus is part of The Regenda Group; we work in places where we can make a difference and operate across the housing and construction sector, in care and support, and in education, training and careers.
Next steps
If you like what you've read so far and think you've got what it takes to join our team, then apply now with a copy of your CV and a short covering letter detailing why you think you would be a good fit the role.
Our Talent Acquisition team will review your application and will be in touch shortly.
What we offer
Petrus really is a great place to work - and you don't have to just take our word for it! We're accredited by Best Companies for our 'world class' levels of staff engagement and have been consistently named as one of the Best Companies to Work For in the North West.
We can offer you a working environment where you can enjoy yourself, develop yourself and be yourself and where you really can make a difference to people's lives.
We also offer a fantastic reward and benefits package which includes:
- A range of flexible working options.
- 25 days paid annual leave each year (rising to 27 days after three years) in addition to 8 bank holidays.
- 6 additional days for volunteering.
- 5% Employers Contribution to the Pension Scheme.
- £250 annual 'Live and Learn' allowance to spend on learning any new skill.
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay schemes.
- Employee Assistance Programme and health and wellbeing initiatives
- A wide variety of exciting learning and development opportunities.
- Interest free loans to assist with the purchase of computer equipment and travel season tickets.
- Monthly staff lottery scheme.
We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from disabled and minority ethnic candidates as they are currently under-represented within our organisation.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, we'd encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.
INDHP
The Company
Petrus provides residential and day support services to people who are homeless or in housing need. It offers a safe environment where people can develop their skills and independence to empower change.
People often find it difficult to know where to go and who to ask for help, and we try and make this as easy as possible.
We engage with individuals and start to build a relationship with them, which is key to building trust and facilitating positive choices.
We encourage individuals to access appropriate support and can refer them into housing.
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