Team Manager

Brooke Farm is a well-established training site for people with disabilities to gain employability skills and to prepare for paid work. It is a unique, rural retail environment where training and on the job learning go hand in hand. Now the foundations have been set with a recently developed farm shop, café and garden centre in Linby, the team must deliver on their employment and skills hub along with their commercial services there, and at the sister horticulture site in Balderton. As well as a training site, Brooke Farm is a Supported Employer of people with disabilities. 

The current manager is due to retire and the team are looking for an experienced manager to take up the post and support them to deliver high quality service outputs. It is an operational frontline public facing management position.  The incoming team manager will need to be a strong leader with management know-how. Health and safety experience as well as practical knowledge of managing budgets, buildings and grounds is as important as people management for this distinctive managerial role. 

Brooke Farm’s employment offer is part of Nottinghamshire County Council’s commitment to the employment and health agenda. You will have an in depth understanding of the challenges faced by people with disabilities to access paid work and be able to demonstrate your experience of delivering training programmes and working in services for people with disabilities. 

To talk to the recruiting manager, please call Helen Scaman, on 01159772010

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