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Location: Remote with regular travel to multiple locations (including Head Office in London)
Contract Type: Full-Time, Standard Contract
Reports to: Executive Headteacher
Responsible for: Curriculum Leads and Teaching Staff
Start Date: 4th January 2027
Please note: Applicants who successfully pass the initial CV screening will be required to submit a full Equal Education Academy application form in line with KCSIE statutory guidance prior to formal shortlisting and interview.
Interview schedule:
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Online interview (45mins) - Friday 28th August 2026.
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In-Person Assessment Day (London) - Friday 11th September 2026.
About Equal Education Academy (EEA)
Equal Education is excited to launch a new online academy for Key Stage 4 students, accredited under the DfE’s Online Education Accreditation Scheme (OEAS). We deliver high-quality alternative education tailored for learners facing barriers to education or with complex needs. This includes young people with SEND, SEMH needs, interrupted schooling, Children Looked After, and those requiring specialist or alternative provision.
Guided by our values of Belong, Empower and Aspire, we provide a safe, inclusive, and aspirational environment. We align with DfE guidance and aim to meet OEAS standards, ensuring that safeguarding, particularly online, is the foundation of our culture.
Purpose of the Role
The Head of Centre will provide strategic and operational leadership for Equal Education Academy, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, inclusive, and trauma-informed online provision. Serving as the Academy’s Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO) and Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), the postholder will embed safeguarding, inclusion, and wellbeing into all organisational decision-making.
Key responsibilities include leading SEND and safeguarding strategy (including overseeing the Single Central Record) delivering high-impact staff training, and driving rigorous quality assurance by monitoring and reviewing teaching and learning practices.
Working collaboratively across the Academy and the wider Equal Education Limited group, the Head of Centre will serve as a vital operational bridge, facilitating seamless collaboration and synergy between Equal Education Academy and Equal Education Limited. Operating at the intersection of both entities, the post-holder is uniquely positioned to identify and leverage cross-group resources, optimising them to drive the growth and development of the Academy. By championing alignment across the ecosystem, this pivotal role ensures that the Academy’s functions, team, and strategic objectives are seamlessly integrated within the wider organisation.
Key Responsibilities
1. Strategic Leadership & Quality of Education
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Support the Executive Headteacher in setting the Academy’s strategic direction and ensuring compliance with OEAS/DfE standards.
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Monitor and review teaching and learning across the Academy, using lesson observations, work scrutiny, and data analysis to drive pedagogical improvement.
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Contribute to the Academy Improvement Plan and lead on inspection readiness and quality assurance activities.
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Lead on developing and implementing a program of CPD and training for new staff. Ensuring the team is aligned under the vision and values of the EE Academy.
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Facilitate operational synergy between Equal Education Academy and Equal Education Limited, leveraging group resources to optimise performance.
2. SEND Leadership (SENCO)
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Coordinate all SEND provision, ensuring the identification, assessment, and effective support of learners with complex needs.
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Oversee EHCP management, annual reviews, and the development of targeted Individual Learning Plans (ILPs).
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Oversee PEP management for Looked After Children
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Champion inclusive pedagogy, ensuring all staff adopt trauma-informed and adaptive teaching strategies.
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Manage multi-agency collaboration with families, local authorities, and external professionals to secure positive learner outcomes.
3. Safeguarding and Wellbeing (DSL)
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Serve as the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL), maintaining oversight of all safeguarding systems, referrals, and online safety protocols.
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Ensure policies remain compliant with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) and best practice.
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Promote a culture of vigilance, ensuring learner wellbeing, attendance, and emotional safety are central to all Academy functions.
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Lead on multi-agency safeguarding processes and provide expert advice to the leadership team.
4. Leadership & Staff Development
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Design and deliver high-impact staff training programs, specifically focusing on safeguarding, online pedagogy, SEND frameworks, and inclusive, trauma-informed practice.
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Lead staff appraisal, coaching, and professional development to ensure high standards of accountability and growth.
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Foster a collaborative, reflective culture, supporting recruitment, induction, and retention.
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Support learner engagement, attendance and successful transition pathways
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Contribute to self-evaluation and school improvement activities
5. Partnership Working, Influence and Professional Representation
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Build and maintain effective relationships with internal stakeholders to drive seamless integration between Equal Education Academy and the wider Equal Education Limited group.Work closely with the Executive Headteacher, Group CEO and relevant members of operational teams to ensure effective collaboration across the group.
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Develop and sustain effective partnerships with families, schools, local authorities, virtual schools, and external agencies.
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Support policy development, implementation, and review.
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Represent Equal Education at professional meetings, conferences, and external forums.
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Undertake any other duties reasonably directed by the Headteacher or Executive Headteacher.
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Contribute to strategic planning and organisational development, effectively pitching ideas and challenging the status quo.
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Ability to constructively and professionally challenge colleagues and stakeholders at all levels, including leadership as necessary, in the interest of managing risk and developing a quality service offering.
Person Specification
Essential Qualifications and Experience
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Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
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National Award for SEN Coordination (NASENCO).
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Significant (3 years minimum) senior leadership experience in a school, AP, SEND, or online setting within the last year.
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Proven experience in designing and delivering whole-school staff training.
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Extensive (1 year minimum) experience as a DSL (safeguarding) and SENCO (SEND provision).
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Deep understanding of KCSIE, the SEND Code of Practice, and OEAS/DfE requirements.
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Experience in reviewing teaching and learning to drive quality improvement.
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Significant experience supporting children and young people with barriers to learning and/or emerging or complex needs, including those with SEND, SEMH needs, interrupted education, Children Looked After, and learners requiring specialist or alternative provision.
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Significant experience supporting learners with EHCPs and complex needs, while coordinating multi-agency support and collaborating effectively with local authorities, schools, and external agencies.
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Experience contributing to quality assurance, school improvement or inspection readiness activities.
Skills and Attributes
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Strong strategic, operational and project management skills
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Ability to manage complex projects in an organised manner, develop project plans with effective tracking (e.g. Project Initiation documents, gantt charts, reporting on key metrics, meeting key milestones and working to budgets).
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Ability to lead projects and processes in a collaborative way, identifying and engaging key stakeholders to ensure efficiency and avoid duplication of work across a group business structure.
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Demonstrates a commercial mindset, with the ability to articulate business cases, work effectively with budgets and interpret information effectively.
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Excellent communication: capable of building high-trust relationships with staff, families, and local authorities.
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Resilient, reflective and adaptable. A champion of inclusion: deep commitment to supporting vulnerable learners and EEA’s values.
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Strong organisational skills, data-literate and improvement-focused with the abilities to support and develop colleagues.
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Analytical mindset, able to challenge own assumptions and adapt based on learnings.
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Up to date educational landscape knowledge and a desire to remain informed of sector shifts and updates.
General
The post-holder will be provided with the technology required to complete their role. Equal Education works exclusively on Apple devices using Google software.
Equal Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All colleagues are expected to share this commitment. The post is subject to Enhanced DBS clearance, right to work in the UK, and two satisfactory professional references (one from the last employer).
Every young person we support is unique and our team isn’t any different. Our differences are our strength when it comes to providing a tailored, human approach to education. We are proud of our people and provide an environment where everyone can bring their most authentic self to work.
Our recruitment practices are carried out in line with equal opportunities and all candidates will be reviewed fairly regardless of age, gender reassignment, sex, race, religion, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or any other protected characteristic.
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Purpose of the Role
The Youth Insights Programme Lead is responsible for leading the effective design, planning and delivery of assigned Youth Insights panels and projects. The role bridges strategic leadership and operational delivery, ensuring that panels are well designed, well facilitated, well coordinated and deliver high-quality insight for partners.
The Programme Lead manages day-to-day partner relationships, leads delivery planning, supports facilitators, oversees programme outputs and ensures young people have a positive, inclusive and meaningful experience.
The role contributes to insight generation and reporting, working within the frameworks and quality standards set by the Programme Manager.
Key Responsibilities
1. Programme Design and Delivery
- Lead the design and delivery of assigned Youth Insights panels, within the methodology and standards set by the Programme Manager.
- Translate partner objectives into clear delivery plans, session structures and participant journeys.
- Develop and adapt session plans, materials and activities for assigned panels.
- Ensure sessions are engaging, inclusive, purposeful and appropriate for young people.
- Lead or support facilitation of Youth Insights sessions as required.
- Ensure delivery remains aligned with agreed outcomes, quality standards and partner expectations.
- Identify practical improvements to delivery and share learning with the Programme Manager.
2. Operational Partner Management
- Act as the primary day-to-day relationship manager for assigned partners.
- Lead operational planning meetings, delivery updates and routine partner communications.
- Manage partner expectations around timelines, outputs, session planning and reporting.
- Maintain strong working relationships with operational partner contacts.
- Identify risks, issues or opportunities in partner relationships and escalate appropriately to the Programme Manager.
- Support strategic partner conversations by providing delivery insight, evidence and learning.
- Where a partner contact holds both strategic and operational responsibilities, act as the primary day-to-day contact while ensuring the Programme Manager retains senior oversight.
3. Insight Generation and Reporting
- Analyse youth feedback and identify key themes, patterns and insights from assigned panels.
- Draft reports, summaries, presentations and recommendations for partners.
- Ensure reports go beyond description and begin to translate youth feedback into meaningful insight.
- Work within the reporting frameworks, standards and templates agreed by the Programme Manager.
- Incorporate quality feedback from the Programme Manager and strengthen outputs accordingly.
- Support the development of case studies, impact stories and evidence of partner value.
- Contribute learning from assigned panels into wider Youth Insights service development.
4. Delivery Quality and Facilitation
- Ensure all assigned programmes are delivered to a high standard.
- Brief, support and coordinate freelance facilitators for assigned sessions.
- Ensure facilitators understand the purpose, method, safeguarding requirements and desired outcomes of each session.
- Monitor delivery quality and participant experience.
- Provide feedback to facilitators and escalate quality concerns where needed.
- Ensure session materials, resources and activities are prepared and appropriate.
- Support consistency of delivery across panels, while adapting appropriately to different partner contexts.
5. Youth Engagement and Inclusion
- Ensure young people are meaningfully involved, listened to and supported throughout their participation.
- Work with the Programme Coordinator to support recruitment, onboarding, retention and engagement.
- Monitor participant experience and respond to issues or barriers to participation.
- Identify gaps in representation within assigned panels and work with the Programme Coordinator and Programme Manager to address them.
- Ensure delivery is inclusive, accessible and responsive to young people’s needs.
- Support young people to build confidence, skills and understanding through their involvement.
6. Programme Coordination and Project Management
- Develop and maintain delivery plans for assigned Youth Insights panels.
- Coordinate timelines, milestones, partner inputs, facilitator availability and reporting deadlines.
- Work closely with the Programme Coordinator to ensure logistics, communications and records are well managed.
- Ensure risks, actions and dependencies are tracked and communicated.
- Support effective use of HubSpot and other systems to manage participant journeys and partner activity.
- Ensure programme information is accurate, up to date and accessible to the team.
7. Team Support and Development
- Delegate appropriate tasks clearly and support effective workload management.
- Share learning, tools and good practice across the Youth Insights team.
- Contribute to training, reflection sessions and process improvement.
- Support a positive, collaborative and values-led team culture.
- Help build team confidence in delivery, facilitation, insight generation and partner communication.
8. Safeguarding, Compliance and Risk
- Ensure safeguarding, consent, data protection and risk processes are followed across assigned programmes.
- Identify and escalate safeguarding concerns or risks in line with S4TP policies.
- Ensure facilitators and delivery contributors understand relevant safeguarding and compliance requirements.
- Support accurate record keeping and documentation.
- Contribute to risk assessment and mitigation for sessions, panels and partner activity.
Key Relationships
Internal:
- Youth Insights Programme Manager
- Youth Insights Programme Coordinator
- CEO where required
- Wider S4TP team
- Freelance facilitators
External:
- Operational partner contacts
- Strategic partner contacts where appropriate
- Young people and alumni
- Schools, colleges and youth networks
- Delivery partners and stakeholders
Success Measures
Success in this role will include:
- Assigned panels are delivered effectively, safely and to a high standard.
- Partners receive timely, useful and high-quality reports and outputs.
- Young people have a positive, inclusive and meaningful experience.
- Operational partner relationships are well managed.
- Programme delivery runs smoothly, with clear plans, timelines and communication.
- Insight reports demonstrate analysis, themes and recommendations, not just summaries.
- Facilitators are well briefed, supported and consistent in delivery.
- Learning from delivery contributes to wider Youth Insights improvement.
Person Specifcation
Youth Insights Programme Lead
Person Specification
At Solutions for the Planet, we believe young people should have a meaningful voice in shaping the decisions that affect their lives, communities and futures.
We are looking for someone who is passionate about youth participation and skilled at turning young people's experiences, ideas and perspectives into insights that organisations can learn from and act upon.
This role would suit someone who enjoys working directly with young people, building trusted relationships with partners, facilitating engaging discussions and leading projects from planning through to delivery and reporting.
We're looking for someone who has...
Experience working with young people
You'll have experience engaging young people in a meaningful way and be confident creating environments where young people feel safe, included and empowered to share their views.
You may have worked in youth work, education, youth voice, participation, consultation, research, social action, community engagement or a related field.
Strong programme and project management skills
You'll be organised and able to manage multiple projects, deadlines and relationships at the same time.
You'll be comfortable:
- Planning and coordinating programmes or projects
- Managing timelines and delivery schedules
- Identifying and managing risks
- Keeping people informed and on track
- Maintaining accurate records and documentation
Excellent facilitation and communication skills
A key part of the role involves helping young people share their ideas and experiences.
We're looking for someone who can:
- Facilitate engaging discussions and workshops
- Adapt their approach for different groups and situations
- Listen actively and build trust
- Communicate confidently with young people, partners and colleagues
- Present information clearly and professionally
Experience generating insight and writing reports
You do not need to be a formal researcher, but you should be comfortable analysing feedback and spotting patterns, themes and key messages.
You should be able to:
- Review qualitative feedback and discussions
- Identify meaningful themes and insights
- Draw out implications and recommendations
- Write reports and presentations for external audiences
- Translate young people's views into actionable learning for partners
Experience managing stakeholder relationships
You will often be the main day-to-day contact for partner organisations.
We're looking for someone who can:
- Build positive professional relationships
- Manage expectations effectively
- Communicate with confidence and credibility
- Handle challenges constructively
- Represent Solutions for the Planet professionally
Experience supporting others
You may have experience supervising colleagues, coordinating volunteers, supporting facilitators or mentoring others.
You don't need extensive line management experience, but you should be comfortable helping others succeed and contributing to a collaborative team culture.
You'll be a great fit if you are...
Passionate about youth voice
You genuinely believe that young people should be listened to and involved in decisions that affect them.
People-centred
You enjoy building relationships and helping others feel valued, supported and included.
Curious and reflective
You're interested in understanding different perspectives and using learning to improve future practice.
Organised and proactive
You take ownership of your work, manage competing priorities effectively and look for solutions when challenges arise.
Adaptable
You're comfortable working in a growing organisation where priorities can evolve and where continuous improvement is encouraged.
Values-led
You care about delivering work ethically, inclusively and with integrity, always keeping the needs of young people at the centre of your decision making.
It would be a bonus if you have...
While not essential, we'd love to hear from you if you have experience of:
- Youth research, consultation or co-design
- Facilitating focus groups or participatory workshops
- Impact measurement and evaluation
- Working with businesses, employers or corporate partners
- CRM systems such as HubSpot
- Education, youth sector or community engagement networks
- Managing freelance facilitators or delivery teams
- Social impact, sustainability or social enterprise organisations
Practical Requirements
We ask that applicants:
- Are willing to travel within the UK for programme delivery, partner meetings and team activities
- Can occasionally work evenings when required for youth sessions or events
- Are eligible to work in the UK
- Are willing to undertake an Enhanced DBS check
What Success Looks Like
In this role, you'll help create high-quality experiences that young people genuinely value and that partners genuinely learn from.
Success means:
- Young people feel heard, respected and able to make a meaningful contribution
- Sessions are engaging, inclusive and well facilitated
- Partner organisations receive useful and insightful outputs
- Projects run smoothly and meet agreed deadlines
- Facilitators are well supported and prepared
- Youth feedback is translated into clear themes, insights and recommendations
- Learning is shared across the team to strengthen future programmes
Most importantly...
We're looking for someone who combines strong project delivery skills with a genuine commitment to empowering young people.
You don't need to meet every desirable criterion to apply. If you're excited by the opportunity, share our values and believe you could thrive in the role, we'd love to hear from you.
We are especially interested in hearing from candidates whose lived experience, background or perspective can help strengthen the diversity and inclusivity of our Youth Insights programmes. We believe great youth engagement is built by teams that reflect and understand the diversity of the young people we work with.
A covering letter explaining your interest in the role and how you meet the criteria in the person specification (no more than 1 x A4 page).
An up-to-date relevant CV (no more than 2 x A4 pages).
Please indicate where you are based on your application.
A short selfie video saying why you want to work with Solutions for the Planet and what you think your superpowers are (max 2 minutes).
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Role: Dads’/Partners’ Peer Support Worker
Location: Birmingham wide / Hybrid working
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday (with some occasional evening and weekend work)
Salary: £25,363 – £26,419 per annum, subject to experience
Contract: Fixed-term for 12 months
Benefits: Flexible working, 36 days leave (including bank/public holidays), 5% matched pension contribution, ongoing support and supervision sessions
Reports to: Operations Director
Please note: To allow Acacia to provide specialist, relatable peer support, there is a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) for this role to be filled by a male, who is a dad or partner and has relevant lived experience of perinatal mental health and/or other mental health difficulties.
What will the role involve?
The Dads’/Partners’ Peer Support Worker will play an important role in helping us reach and support more fathers and partners across Birmingham. The role will be community-based and will involve regular travel across the city, working closely with Family Hubs, community organisations and other local partners.
A key part of the role will be establishing and facilitating dads’ stay-and-play groups across Birmingham’s Family Hub areas. These groups will provide opportunities for dads to spend quality time with their children, meet other fathers, build supportive relationships and access support in a welcoming and informal environment.
The postholder will also provide one-to-one peer support, drawing appropriately on their own lived experience to build trust, offer encouragement and help fathers and partners feel less alone. They will support individuals to access relevant mental health, wellbeing, family and community services where needed.
The role will also help to raise awareness of fathers’ and partners’ perinatal mental health through community events, online resources and social media. Working alongside Family Hubs and other local services, the postholder will help dads and partners develop coping strategies, strengthen their support networks and feel more confident about moving forward.
Travel expenses incurred as part of the role will be reimbursed in line with Acacia’s Expenses Policy.Due to the post requiring regular travel across Birmingham, the applicant should ideally have access to a car for work purposes.
Please note the role will be subject to criminal record, right to work and reference checks.
Interested in applying?
If you are interested in being considered for the role, please read the attached job pack and complete the attached application form, explaining how you meet the points in the person specification. Your application should outline your relevant skills and experience, along with the qualities you feel you would bring to the role.
Please return completed application forms by Sunday 06 September 2026.
If you have any specific questions or would like to talk through any aspect of the role, please contact the recruiting manager for further information.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.