Assistant programme manager jobs in london, greater london
Purpose of the job
The Head of Operations ensures UK Youth runs efficiently, compliantly, and with impact. Reporting to the Director of Finance and Operations and working closely with Assistant Directors, the role drives core operations, systems improvement, performance reporting, and policy oversight.
Overseeing IT, CRM, project delivery, governance, and administration, the postholder also co-leads the development of an Organisation Performance Dashboard with the Finance Director to track KPIs and inform decision-making.
Key responsibilities
- Operational Leadership
- Policy & Process Management
- Performance Monitoring & Business Intelligence
- Annual Planning Support
- Digital Systems & Infrastructure
- Safeguarding, Risk & Compliance
- Team Leadership & Financial Oversight
Who we are
UK Youth is a leading charity that exists to ensure all young people are equipped to thrive and empowered to contribute at every stage of their lives. We work with others to ensure that the youth sector is strengthened, supported, and that provision is youth-led, evidence-informed and delivers high-quality outcomes.
UK Youth plays a unique role in addressing; the lack of investment in the youth sector, the lack of cross sector understanding in how youth work makes a difference and the limited opportunities to embed effective solutions. These factors lead to mass inequality of access to youth services for young people. To find more about us and how we make an impact, please visit UK Youth Website.
Why work at UK Youth?
UK Youth is a leading charity that exists to ensure all young people are equipped to thrive and empowered to contribute at every stage of their lives. We work with others to ensure that the youth sector is strengthened, supported, and that provision is youth-led, evidence-informed and delivers high-quality outcomes. UK Youth plays a unique role in addressing; the lack of investment in the youth sector, the lack of cross-sector understanding in how youth work makes a difference and the limited opportunities to embed effective solutions. These factors lead to mass inequality of access to youth services for young people.
What we can offer you
We offer a competitive range of benefits, good work/life balance, excellent learning and development opportunities and vibrant organisational culture:
- Flexible/Agile Working
- 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata for part time employees)
- Funded training provided in; Safeguarding, GDPR, Information and Cyber Security & Equality & Diversity
- Other training available in support of your personal and professional development
- Pension scheme (currently UK Youth match employee contributions up to 5%)
- Membership of our life insurance scheme which would pay-out up to 4 times your salary
- Employee Assistance Programme to support employees both professionally and personally
- 20% discount off bookings at Avon Tyrrell, our New Forest Outdoor Centre, including camping, lodges and outdoor activities.
- IT equipment provided for the duration of contract
- CycleScheme and TechScheme
How to apply
If you would like to be considered for this fantastic opportunity, please complete an application via our completely anonymised recruitment system provided by Applied which looks to create a fair and unbiased application process for all. Scroll to the top of the page and start your application.
Closing date: 27th June 2025 @ 11:59pm (midnight)
Interview Dates: w/c 7th July 2025
As this role involves working in a regulated environment with young people, any offer will be conditional to satisfactory background checks, which include criminal record check and employment reference.
UK Youth is a leading charity with a vision that all young people are equipped to thrive and empowered to contribute at every stage of their lives.

TreeHouse School is an Ofsted “Outstanding” SEN School for children and young adults aged 3-19 with a primary diagnosis of autism (most of whom have additional learning, social, emotional, communication, health and care needs).
Our Ambitious approach ensures that, through our curriculum and delivery, we focus on delivering quality of life outcomes for our children and young people.
We are proud to announce that we have retained Ofsted "Outstanding" (June 2024) in all areas. Please do read our Ofsted reports on our website.
We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate, qualified SEND Teacher to join us on our ambitious journey. Your day to day role will include delivering creative and person-centred lessons to up to 8 learners in a pre-formal class.
We will consider ECT's for this role and welcome both Primary and Secondary teachers to apply.
Why join us?
- Term time only role
- Free healthy breakfast available every day
- Working with Autism/learning disability industry experts across our school and our charity
- Autonomy in your role – You have the freedom to be creativity and get to see first hand our learners progress and achieve their goals and aspirations (as well as your ideas coming to life in the classroom).
- Mental health and wellbeing are at the core of everything we do; The SLT practise “compassionate leadership”.
- Continued professional development and training including a wide range of in house and external training courses.
- Annual staff recognition awards.
- Eye test vouchers, season ticket loans and a cycle to work scheme (plus a bike shed outside the school).
- Employee Assistance Programme: to help you balance your work, family, and personal life.
- Access to physiotherapy.
- On-site parking is available
Your role:
- Provide excellent delivery, teaching and course leadership to learners across TreeHouse School.
- Safeguard and promote the welfare of the children and young people we support.
- Work with pupils to ensure they receive a service that delivers the outcomes specified in their individualised learning, person-centred plans.
- Prepare and deliver schemes of work, lesson plans, assignments and assessments in line with departmental and awarding body requirements.
- Work collaboratively with allied health professionals as part of a trans-disciplinary team.
Our learners are mostly pre-verbal or use assistive communication systems to make their needs understood and follow different pathways depending on their needs and strengths, these are pre, semi and formal and you can read more on our website.
(Please refer to our JD and FAQ document attached to our website for more details).
Closing date: Sunday 15th of June
Shortlisting date: W/C 16th of June
Interviews date: Tuesday 24th of June
Start date: September 2025
Assessment: You will be asked to attend a formal interview (45 minutes - 1 hour) and you will conduct a Micro Teach (20-30 minutes) with a group of pupils.
Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity andwe warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion
or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.
Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check. As part of our Safer Recruitment checks, an online search maybe carried out in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.
The Safeguarding responsibilities of the post as per the job description and personal specification. Whether the post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendment to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2021. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS Filter Guidance.
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We are looking for a passionate and experienced full-time Specialist Support Worker to join our team, based in Leyton, East London.
Furnishing Futures is an innovative charity that creates beautiful healing homes for women and children who have escaped domestic abuse, and been given empty social housing, by partnering with the interiors industry to reduce waste. We are looking for a Specialist Support Worker, to work alongside our Senior Specialist Support Worker to provide focussed support to our beneficiaries across London.
The ideal candidate will have experience supporting vulnerable people with complex needs from a wide variety of backgrounds and an understanding of the impact of deprivation, discrimination and domestic abuse on individuals, families and communities.
If this sounds like you we'd love to hear from you, even if you only meet most of the essential criteria. We particularly welcome applications from people from all marginalised groups, communities and backgrounds.
It is our mission to create a future where furniture poverty no longer exists and no useable furniture ends up in landfill
his is a busy and exciting time to be working on the Childhood harms portfolio, with significant changes to the policy framework both proposed by the Government and underway. Consequently, alongside recruiting this role as full time, we are looking for a candidate to join us as soon as possible to take forwards our existing body of work urgently.
We are looking for a candidate with experience of policy and influencing decision makers, ideally with a background in childhood harms, including child sexual abuse and exploitation. Your work will play a key role in creating the context for positive change to improve the lives of vulnerable children, young people and families. You will need experience of working with a wide range of stakeholders to influence policy change, and to be able to demonstrate strong oral and written skills.
We are a friendly and supportive team, passionate and enthusiastic about our work. You will be given plenty of support and direction to help you hit the ground running, and to develop and flourish in your time with us.
Barnardo's is currently moving towards a new way of working that provides greater flexibility for you to choose when and where you carry out your responsibilities within the UK and makes job opportunities more accessible. This role will be home based. Barnardo's will only expect you to be in an office when necessary and will provide flexible spaces for innovation and collaboration.
Assessment
As we are looking for someone who can join us as soon as possible, we will hold a rolling assessment. We will offer interviews as suitable candidates are identified.
When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document (if applicable).
About Barnardo's
At Barnardo's we believe in children – no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.
Please note that due to the rolling recruitment process, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
We're looking for 2 kind, compassionate and resilient Specialist Support Workers to join our Mental Health service in Tower Hamlets.
£29,500.18 per annum, working 40 hours per week.
Want to feel like you have an exciting future? You'll feel at home here.
Making you feel at home here means helping you thrive in every way. That's why we offer a wide range of benefits, award-winning Learning & Development and a culture that welcomes all. These aren't token gestures - we've thought long and hard about how best to support our team. After all, our people are doing something amazing: helping to transform lives every day.
Our benefits include:
* Annual leave increasing up to 30 days with length of service
* Free DBS (take this out if BSW advert)
* Exclusive discounts and cashback via Reward Gateway® and opportunity to buy a Blue Light Card
* Fully paid induction programme and further training
All applicants must be legally eligible to work in the UK by the start of employment as Look Ahead are not able to offer sponsorship.
Specialist Support Workers help to enable vulnerable customers living at the scheme to manage their tenancies, mental/ physical health and wellbeing and assist them to move to social housing within the community.
The shift pattern for this role consist of: early shift 9am to 5pm and late shift 12pm to 8pm. Weekends and bank holidays 9am to 5pm
The contract for this role is expected to end: 31st March 2026
What you'll do:
* Undertake key-working responsibilities for a caseload assigned by the Manager
* Conducting regular flat checks and medication spot checks.
* Undertake initial and continuous assessment of needs and potential risks and agree levels of support and actions
* Create support plans / risk assessment plans for providing appropriate services based on the assessment and reflecting the services and resources available
* Support customers to access local activities and services to maintain and improve health and well-being, avoid hospital admission, support to access and maximise welfare benefits
* Support customers to undertake activity of daily living (ADL), including practical assistance where they have not yet developed the skills, to ensure customers enjoy a high quality of accommodation and maintain their home.
This is not an exhaustive list of all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time and is subject to change in accordance with the needs of Look Ahead
About you:
Relationship-building
- Empathy and respect for all individuals, with the ability to build relationships and understand people's motive and perspectives.
Motivation
- Committed to making a positive impact for individuals.
Adaptability
- Resilience and flexibility in changing circumstances, with the ability to work under pressure and deal with uncertain or unexpected outcomes
What you'll bring:
Essential:
- Worked in a customer care setting with transferrable skills.
Desirable:
- Up to NVQ Level 2/3 or equivalent.
- Past or present experience in providing support to people with mental health, Learning Disability, Substance misuse and Autism
About us:
Look Ahead is a leading, not-for-profit care and support provider in London and the South East. Our vision is to build better lives through social care and housing in local communities. As an organisation we deliver over 100 services, providing support to thousands of customers each year. Our mission is to co-design and deliver services that offer innovative social care solutions and support people to thrive.
We have a strong social purpose and we live and work by our values:
* We focus on Excellence and innovation.
* We are Caring and Compassionate.
* We are Inclusive and Trusted.
* We work in Partnership and are One-Team.
Look Ahead is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk, and expects all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment.
If your application for this role is unsuccessful, but we feel that you would be suitable for another role, we may contact you to discuss alternative opportunities. If this occurs you would not need to submit another application for the alternative role.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.
We are committed to diversity and inclusion at work and are accredited with Silver in the Inclusive Employers Standard 2021. We are a proud member of the Employers Domestic Abuse Covenant and encourage applications from a diverse range of applicants of all backgrounds.
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