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Centre Manager
Norbrook Youth Centre, Bordley Walk, Wythenshawe, Manchester M23 0AR
Grade 6 Point 20 – 25, £30,750 - £34,303. (Full Time 35 hours, Permanent)
Introduction
Greater Manchester Youth Federation (GMYF) is a long-established charity running vibrant youth centres across Greater Manchester. We are dedicated to raising aspirations and creating opportunities for children and young people, particularly those facing disadvantage. Our work is rooted in youth voice, inclusion, strong relationships, and high-quality youth work practice that supports young people to develop confidence, resilience, and skills for life.
GMYF also delivers outdoor education and residential experiences, including provision at Ormside Mill in Cumbria and other residential settings nationwide, as part of its wider youth work offer, working across teams to ensure young people benefit from safe, inclusive, and developmental opportunities beyond their local communities.
Purpose of Role:
The Centre Manager provides strategic and operational leadership for the youth centre and its wider community reach, with responsibility for high-quality youth work delivery and day to day centre operations, working within GMYF’s wider operational ad estates frameworks. high-quality, inclusive local provision. The postholder is the professional lead for youth work practice and delivery within the centre, with responsibility for shaping, developing, and continuously improving provision in line with GMYF’s values, safeguarding standards, and strategic priorities.
Reporting to the Director of Programmes, the Centre manager leads people, partnerships, and placebased development, ensuring the centre delivers strong outcomes for children and young people while contributing to the wider aims of GMYF.
Outdoor Education and residential opportunities are an integral and embedded part of the centre’s youth work offer, and the Centre Manager plays a key role in shaping, embedding, and developing these opportunities in partnership with the Outdoor Education Team to ensure they meet the local need and are accessible to young people.
This is a hands-on leadership role, balancing operational oversight with visible presence, relationship based practice, and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities:
Leadership and Management of Youth Work Delivery
- Provide strategic leadership for youth work delivery at centre level, including centre-based provision, outreach, and integrated Outdoor Education and residential opportunities, ensuring provision is planned, resourced and developed in response to local need, youth voice, and GMYF priorities.
- Provide clear professional leadership for high quality, inclusive youth work across centre based provision, outreach, offsite venues, and outdoor education youth work.
- Embed and champion GMYF’s youth work values, including youth voice, equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- Line manage staff including Youth Work Coordinator(s), Youth Workers, cleaners, and volunteers.
- Provide supervision, appraisal, and performance management, promoting reflective practice and professional development.
- Ensure staffing structures, rotas, and skills mix support safe, effective delivery.
- Foster a positive, professional, and supportive team culture.
Safety, Safeguarding and Compliance
- Act as a Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead.
- Hold overall safeguarding responsibility for the centre and linked activities.
- Ensure safeguarding procedures are embedded, understood, and consistently applied.
- Promote inclusive, restorative and trauma informed practice.
- Ensure all safeguarding and behaviour related incidents are recorded, reviewed, and followed up.
- Maintain compliance with legislation, statutory guidance, and GMYF policies.
Centre Operations, Site Management and Health & Safety
- The Centre Manager holds responsibility for day-to-day site oversight and compliance, with additional estates support provided through GMYF’s central operations arrangements.
- Ensure the centre meets all Health & Safety and statutory requirements, working with GMYF’s Central Team and systems to maintain compliance.
- Oversee day-to-day site issues, Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM), compliance checks, and inspections, escalating and co-ordinating works as required through organisational processes.
- Maintain oversight of building safety, security, and use of space.
- Ensure accurate records are maintained for staff, visitors, and young people.
- Ensure all off site activities, outreach, visits, and residentials are risk assessed and appropriately staffed.
- Hold overall responsibility for the safe opening and closing of the centre and the planning and oversight of fire, evacuation, and lockdown procedures, delegating operational leadership as appropriate when not on site
- Maintain good relations with neighbours and the local community.
Quality, Development and Partnership Working
- Lead centre-level self evaluation and contribute to GMYF organisational development and quality frameworks.
- Monitor outcomes for children and young people and use learning to improve provision.
- Contribute to funding bids, monitoring, and reporting.
- Develop and maintain partnerships with stakeholders including schools, community organisations, statutory services, and internal teams to support joined-up opportunities for young people.
- Represent the centre in organisational initiatives and networks.
Outdoor Education and Residential Provision
- Hold responsibility for pastoral leadership of young people accessing Outdoor Education provision linked to the centre, while the Outdoor Education Team is responsible for developing and providing outdoor education opportunities.
- Work collaboratively with the Outdoor Education Team to plan high-quality residentials and Outdoor Activities for the young people from the centre.
- Ensure good pastoral and wellbeing leadership before, during, and after residentials.
- Act as Group Leader and drive the minibus where required and appropriate, in line with compliance regulations.
- Lead reflective reviews following residentials and outdoor education activity.
Professional Conduct and Organisational Responsibilities
- Uphold GMYF’s values, policies, and professional standards.
- Ensure conduct reflects the responsibilities of a leadership and management role.
- Maintain a strong commitment to continuous professional development and reflective leadership practice, using supervision, learning, and organisational feedback to enhance personal effectiveness and support high-quality youth work delivery.
- Contribute positively to the wider culture and strategic development of GMYF.
- Undertake other duties commensurate with the role.
Person Specification
Essential Criteria
Qualifications & Professional Development
- Relevant qualification in Youth Work OR significant experience delivering youth work or related children and young people’s provision
- Commitment to continuous professional development (CPD) and reflective leadership practice
- Willingness to undertake further relevant professional or leadership qualifications and development as required
Experience
- Experience delivering youth work or similar provision in a centre based, community, or outreach setting
- Experience supporting, supervising, or coordinating staff and/or volunteers.
- Experience working within safeguarding frameworks, including recording concerns and escalating appropriately
- Experience working with children and young people facing additional barriers to participation (e.g. SEND, trauma, disadvantage)
- Experience contributing to the planning, delivery, or improvement of provision, balancing operational delivery with quality and learning
Knowledge & Skills
- Sound understanding of safeguarding, risk management, and inclusive practice within youth or community settings
- Ability to promote positive behaviour cultures using restorative and trauma informed approaches.
- Ability to provide clear professional direction and guidance to team and colleagues
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, adaptable to young people, families, partners, and professionals
- Ability to oversee the safe delivery of centre based, outreach, and off site activities
- Ability to maintain accurate records and contribute to reports and organisational learning
- Competence in using IT systems to support communication, administration and service delivery
Leadership & Personal Attributes
- Ability to provide visible, values-led leadership within a busy operational environment
- Sound judgement and confidence in decision-making, with appropriate use of supervision, escalation and advice
- Ability to work collaboratively within a wider organisational structure and across internal teams
- Strong commitment to equality, diversity, safeguarding, and young person-centred practice
- Resilience, adaptability, and the ability to manage competing priorities and pressures
Additional Requirements
- Willingness to work flexibly, including evenings and occasional weekends
- Willingness to complete required training (e.g. First Aid, safeguarding, fire safety) within agreed timescales
- Enhanced DBS check
Desirable Criteria
- Degree level qualification in Youth Work
- Leadership or management qualification, or experience of leading teams in a youth work setting
- Experience contributing to funding bids, monitoring, evaluation, or reporting processes
- Experience leading or contributing to centre self evaluation or quality assurance frameworks
- Experience working in partnership with schools, local services, or community organisations
Other requirements
GMYF is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. An Enhanced DBS is required for this post. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
This is a UK-based post and applicants must be living in and have the right to work in the UK. If applicable, please detail your Visa status in your covering email.
Please let us know if you need us to make any reasonable adjustments during the application or recruitment process and we’ll be happy to support you.
- Closing date for applications: 21st September 2026 @9:00am
- Formal nterview date:29th September 2026
- Young person part of interview date: 30th September 2026
- Start date: As soon as possible
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Lead services that support those who serve on the frontline
DMWS is seeking an experienced operational leader to develop and deliver high-quality services for blue light organisations and their workforces. This senior role combines strategic thinking, practical delivery, partnership building and strong project management.
A key part of the role is bringing services together. You will work closely with DMWS welfare teams, psychological services and clinical governance colleagues to strengthen referrals, coordinate support pathways and ensure operational delivery is safe, responsive and well governed.
What you will do
· Lead operational plans, service performance, contracts, budgets and improvement activity.
· Manage service mobilisations, pilots and improvement projects from scope through delivery, evaluation and handover.
· Build effective working relationships across welfare, psychological, occupational health and partner services.
· Coordinate cross-functional teams, project governance, milestones, risks, dependencies and reporting.
· Strengthen relationships with military, blue light organisations, commissioners, public-sector partners, funders and suppliers.
· Use evidence, outcomes and feedback to improve services, demonstrate impact and create opportunities for sustainable growth.
· Lead and develop staff while maintaining high standards of governance, safeguarding and compliance.
What you will bring
· Senior operational leadership experience in a complex service environment.
· Strong project or programme management skills and a track record of delivering change.
· Credibility with varied stakeholders and the ability to work effectively across professional boundaries.
· An understanding of welfare, wellbeing and psychological support pathways and the importance of clear clinical and safeguarding escalation.
· Commercial awareness, sound financial judgement and a commitment to quality and value for money.
· A collaborative, evidence-led and values-driven approach.
Why join DMWS?
This is an opportunity to shape a growing area of work, strengthen integrated support for military Services, blue light communities and help DMWS turn trusted expertise into sustainable, high-impact services across the UK. This role is progressive and offers the right candidate an opportunity
How to apply
Please submit your CV and a supporting statement explaining how your experience meets the requirements of the role by 28th September 2026. Applicants must hold a full UK Driving Licence and have access to a vehicle which is required for this role.
DMWS is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds.
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Fire Safety Officer
Greater Manchester (Hybrid)
£44,000
We are working with a well-established housing provider to recruit an experienced Fire Safety Advisor to join their Fire Safety function.
This is an excellent opportunity for a fire safety professional to play a key role in maintaining and improving fire safety standards across a large residential property portfolio. You will provide practical advice, undertake inspections, monitor compliance activity and work closely with teams across the organisation to ensure actions are identified, understood and resolved.
The Role
You will support the wider fire safety function by:
- Carrying out fire safety inspections and fire door checks, ensuring statutory requirements are met and any issues are appropriately recorded and addressed.
- Supporting the delivery and ongoing management of a substantial Fire Risk Assessment programme.
- Reviewing fire risk assessments, allocating actions to the appropriate teams and monitoring progress through to completion.
- Visiting properties where required to support fire risk assessment activity and verify that identified actions have been appropriately addressed.
- Carrying out audits and inspections to provide assurance around fire and building safety standards.
- Monitoring other fire safety measures, including fire alarms, extinguishers and associated maintenance activity.
- Investigating fire and building safety incidents and ensuring appropriate follow-up actions and learning are communicated across the organisation.
- Supporting the development and acquisition of new properties by providing fire safety advice and checking that relevant standards and requirements are being met.
- Assisting with systems designed to control works being undertaken within buildings where there could be an impact on fire or building safety.
- Providing technical advice, guidance and training to colleagues and managers across the organisation.
- Developing and maintaining fire safety procedures, guidance and supporting documentation.
- Producing clear reports, statistics and management information to highlight performance, risks and outstanding actions.
- Supporting resident communication and engagement around fire safety, ensuring relevant information is provided in a clear and timely manner.
- Working collaboratively with internal departments, contractors, external organisations and relevant regulatory bodies.
- Supporting the resolution of customer enquiries, complaints and issues relating to fire safety.
About You
We are looking for a proactive fire safety professional who can demonstrate:
- Practical experience working within fire safety, ideally within social housing, local government or another public-sector environment.
- Strong working knowledge of current fire safety legislation, regulations and guidance.
- Experience undertaking inspections, audits or compliance checks and managing actions through to completion.
- Experience providing fire safety advice, guidance or training to colleagues and other stakeholders.
- An understanding of Fire Risk Assessments and the ability to interpret findings and identify appropriate actions.
- Strong organisational skills with a methodical and risk-based approach to your work.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to build effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Good IT skills, particularly Excel, Word and PowerPoint, with the ability to produce clear reports and presentations.
- Experience working with residents or customers would be advantageous.
- Knowledge of housing assets, maintenance, building construction and property compliance would also be beneficial.
- A relevant Fire Safety qualification and membership of, or willingness to work towards membership of, an appropriate professional body such as IFE, IFSM, RICS, CIOB or CIH.
- A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.
Apply
If you're an ambitious fire safety professional looking to make a lasting impact within a values-driven housing association, we'd love to hear from you.
For a confidential discussion and further information, please contact [email protected]