Current Vacancies

We are delighted to create this new role due to our significant growth and expansion this past few years, and have created the Operations Manager role to take over some of the critical business management functions from our CEO who you will be working with very closely.

This role is central to our operating model in the way that it takes lead responsibility for running the whole business operation, as well as one of our key service areas. As part of the senior management team you have a dual focus role, with your operational responsibility seeing you running the ‘back-end’ of the organisation (finance, HR, marketing, compliance etc), whilst your service responsibility (Employability) will see you lead your programme to deliver maximum impact.

The ideal candidate will have stellar organisational skills, a robust background in business management and a strong desire to make a difference in this world!

This role is part time at 30 hours per week ideally Tuesday to Friday, but days could be negotiable and hours could be worked flexibly, with some home working included.

Key Details:

• Pay:                  £40,000 FTE (£32,000) pro rata
• Contract:         Permanent
• Hours:              30hrs pw (flexible)
• Closing Date:   Fri 27th Sept '24 (CLOSED)

Check out the Introduction from our CEO below:

Our innovative Alternative Provision programme supporting secondary school students who have fallen out of education or are at risk of permanent exclusion has grown significantly over the past 2 years and we are expanding our delivery team.

We are looking for someone with educational experience who wants to be part of close-knit team supporting behavourally complex young people with a truly trauma informed, attachment based, relationship-first approach to development.

This role is part time at 20 hours per week ideally Tuesday to Friday, but days could be negotiable and the role could be offered as a 2-day-a-week job share to the right candidates.

We have experienced exponential growth on our innovative Alternative Provision programme supporting secondary school students who have fallen out of education or are at risk of permanent exclusion and are now seeking additional teaching assistants to support our students with additional needs. Experience of working with SEND and SEMH would be an advantage.

Hours will be offered flexibly as we match you with our continually enrolling students, and planned hours will be offered on a term to term basis. 

We have experienced exponential growth on our innovative Alternative Provision programme supporting secondary school students who have fallen out of education or are at risk of permanent exclusion and are now expanding our services to offer personalised Tutoring to students who are engaging well and hoping to re-enter mainstream eductaion catch up on missed learning, and engage in customised learning more effectively where traditional classroom settings are too overwhelming.

We are actively recruiting a bank of experienced tutors on an ongoing basis to help us meet growing demand for individualised and creative learning support for Key Stage 3 & 4 GCSE and Functional Skills subjects.

Roles are offered on a flexible basis (matching tutor and student availability) for weekly sessions.

We have secured a contract to scale up our therapeutic mentoring service where we work 1:1 with young people to build a mentoring relationship to help them form a trusting bond and open up about their challenges and mental health struggles to a therapeutically trained professional.

We are actively recruiting a high number of paid mentors who are fully qualified therapists (or are part qualified / experienced in working with hard to engage young people and willing to train in therapeutically informed techniques) to work with secondary aged young people on a 1:1 basis. The mentoring will be activity based out and about in the local community and will not be formal therapy sessions, but we are specifically seeking therapists with experience in supporting young people who have experienced abuse and significant trauma, as well as social anxiety and neurodiversity related challenges. 

Roles will be on a flexible part-time basis and can be undertaken as a PAYE role or as a self-employed role depending on other working commitments and availability.

Recruitment currently closed - likely to be re-opened in January '25

We are a not-for-profit organisation, but unlike a traditional Charity which has a Board of Trustees, we are a Community Interest Company (CIC) and have a Board of Non-Executive Directors (NED's). This Board is run by local leaders, business owners and professionals who use their skills, experience and contacts to help us manage our rapid growth and ensure our Governance processes are followed appropriately. You can see more about the people currently sitting on our Board of Directors on our Meet The Team page, but we always looking for senior professionals who would like to volunteer their time and effort to help us, whether as a full statutory Director, or as a member of our Advisory Board on a more ad-hoc informal basis.