Company: WS Training part of Brightpeak Group
Location: Haverhill
Hours: 37.5hrs per week - 50 weeks per year - (2 weeks unpaid leave taken during the summer holidays factored into the salary )
Salary: £18.49 – 19.81 per hour (depending on experience)
Holiday: 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
About Us:
We are looking to appoint a Centre Manager for Haverhill provision. We work with the most incredible group of 16–24 year olds who need a range of support both within centre and out on placements. Every day is different, rewarding, and full of opportunities to make a genuine difference in a young person’s life.
The Centre Manager for Study Programme Including SEND Delivery is responsible for overseeing the effective operation and management of the study programme, including ensuring high standards of teaching, learning, and assessment. This role involves managing staff performance, supporting contract management, and ensuring compliance with policies and procedures, particularly related to SEND delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Manage Study Programme staff across departments, monitoring performance to ensure alignment with WS Training’s policies, systems, and procedures.
- Lead the team to ensure high standards of teaching, learning, and assessment are delivered.
- Participate in interviewing and staff selection in accordance with safer recruitment procedures.
- Implement disciplinary and grievance procedures when necessary.
- Monitor staff absence, including handling paperwork and conducting return-to-work interviews.
- Support staff CPD across departments to enhance professional development.
- Manage the delivery and development of study programme learners and all staff, providing clear direction and information, enabling them to fulfill their role ensuring individual set targets are met.
- Making meaningful contribution to the company Self Assessment Report and Quality Improvement Plan
- Responsible for regularly reviewing and amending of training material in line with OFSTED and awarding body requirements
- To ensure adherence to Health & Safety (including Safe Learner concept), Code of Conduct policies, Equality and Diversity and that all learners are given fair access to opportunities.
- To actively promote and support an empowered open success culture.
- Assist the Head of Education with contract management to ensure adherence, including maintaining enrolment numbers and achieving or exceeding achievement rates.
- Authorise financial transactions such as invoices, petty cash, and staff mileage in line with budgets.
- Apply for element 3 funding from local authorities to ensure all learners receive appropriate funding.
- Maximise ESFA contract value by onboarding learners to all programmes.
The ideal candidate would require the following qualification/experience -
- Minimum of a Level 3 Management Qualification or equivalent experience
- Minimum of Level 2 functional skills or equivalent in maths and English
Benefits:
- Opportunity to work for a Grade 2 Ofsted Provider
- Long-term career opportunities and progression
- Company Pension
- Health & Wellbeing programme
- Referral Programme
Should you be shortlisted an application form will be sent to you which is a recruitment requirement. ‘Schools and colleges should only accept copies of a cv alongside an application form. A cv on its own will not provide adequate information’. As a provider of education, we therefore have to adhere to the KCSiE legislation and guidance.
Due to the nature of the work and our commitment to safer recruitment, you will undergo a thorough background check and will require an enhanced DBS and the Right to Work and remain in the UK. You're required to fully disclose spent, unspent and protected convictions, cautions, reprimands and warnings.
If you do not hear from us then please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.
Pay: £18.49-£19.81 per hour
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance
Application question(s):
- Do you have a minimum 2 years supervisory or management experience working with people to help them achieve company and personal goals?
- Do you have previous experience of working in a Support Learning / education environment?
Work Location: In person
