We seek to reach more of the 20,000 sustained NEET 19 to 24 year old Young People in East London and Women from disadvantaged families in East London where child poverty rates are at 56%.  We are looking for an inspirational leader to achieve timely education and soft skills outcome for our students, at scale.

The purpose of the role of Head of Education and Inclusion is to oversee outstanding delivery to students at both of City Gateway’s sites: The Pavilion (Youth Programmes) and Stepney Life Centre (Women’s Programmes), as defined by Ofsted. Working with the CEO (as Ofsted nominee) and the Quality & Training Manager they will oversee the implementation of City Gateways Quality Cycle across all programmes and delivery working collaboratively with colleagues on City Gateway’s journey to excellence. 

They will act as Principal Safeguarding Officer (PSO) for the organisation managing arrangements for learner safeguarding and welfare and ensuring they are followed in full. The post holder will work with the Coaching Manager to lead in the Matrix accreditation as well as ensuring that all provision delivered by City Gateway complies fully with ESFA (Traineeship and Apprenticeship) & ESF contracts, statutory legislation and awarding bodies.The post holder will also hold the position of Health and Safety Officer and ensure equality and diversity are in place to enable us to deliver our mission with integrity.

Working collaboratively across the organisation, using your expertise in education and training, you will build and deliver an unbeatable programme and first class customer service to our students and volunteer partners, that delivers excellence and achieves ambitious targets for our Young People, Women and for the organisation as a whole.

Would you relish the chance to build relationships with young adult prison-leavers as part of an award-winning small charity in East London? 

Being a Switchback Mentor is a unique opportunity to build transformative relationships with young prison-leavers, supporting Switchback Trainees to build stable, rewarding lives. You will go into prisons to directly engage young men and continue that intensive support after release with a small caseload in the community. You will receive sector-leading training, professional development, and supervision from a leading resettlement charity recognised by the Longford Prize as “a beacon of hope at a time of chaos”. 

If you have at least one year’s experience of working directly with people with complex needs and are looking for a unique opportunity to work in a truly person-centered way (no tick-boxes here!), we want to hear from you. 

Switchback is committed to diversity and strongly encourages applications from every part of the communities we serve, particularly people from BAME backgrounds and those with lived experience of the criminal justice system. All appointments are made on merit. 

About Switchback 

Switchback is an award-winning charity helping young Londoners to find a way out of the justice system and build a stable, rewarding life they can be proud of.

We provide intensive one-to-one support on both sides of the prison gate alongside real-work training after release, supporting 18-30-year-old men (Switchback Trainees) to make real, lasting change. Our long-term approach means that Switchback Trainees are five times less likely to return to custody. Switchback is growing fast and setting our sights higher than ever, aiming to reach even more prison-leavers while inspiring change across the system. To do so we need more amazing people to become Switchback Mentors supporting young men through-the-gate. That’s where you come in. 

About you 

We’re looking for enthusiastic individuals, brilliant at working with people and keen for the chance to be autonomous, with support. You will be able to expect the unexpected, be energetic and have a good sense of self-awareness. With a commitment to learning and furthering your own development, you will also have great attention to detail and a desire for accuracy and consistency. You will be excited about the chance to be part of a cutting-edge charity enabling some of London’s most marginalised young people to make real, lasting change in their lives. 

Training and support for this role 

Switchback takes Switchback Mentor development seriously. Switchback Mentors are the drivers of our impact and we will help to build your expertise as a therapeutic practitioner through our in-house training in our unique change model. This is complemented by a comprehensive training and supervision package including monthly 1:1 clinical supervision; monthly psychologically-informed reflective practice sessions with the world-renowned Tavistock Institute; and an individualized budget to spend on external training in different psychological methods of practice. You will also join a structured progression pathway that provides opportunities to further develop management skills and technical expertise, informed by your own learning goals.  

Information sessions 

Switchback will be running two online information sessions on 14th May and 21st May 2021, where you will have the opportunity to virtually meet existing members of the team and talk more about the realities of being a Switchback Mentor. 

You can sign up for one of our information sessions by emailing us with the session you’d like to attend. 

The work of the Children, Young People and Families team is diverse, and current services include an Adventure Playground, coaching in local schools, homework clubs, youth work provision, out of school and holiday services and a family support programme. You will be part of a small and dynamic team, delivering a range of innovative early intervention and targeted services from our Adventure Playground and in local schools.

You will be confident that your professional approach and your solid grounding in youth/play and community work will allow you to work within High Trees’ collaborative approach to service delivery with other partners, stakeholders and local groups in order to provide the services needed in the local community. You will be skilled at service delivery, whilst also possessing the administrative and organisational skills to ensure all work is clearly tracked, monitored and evaluated as per our standardised online software and individual funders requirements. You will understand the wide-ranging challenges facing young people and will be flexible in adjusting your practice to meet these needs.

Your work within the Children, Young People and Families team will contribute to ensuring High Trees meets its aim of providing the highest quality provision and continually strives to improve and expand its services as needed by the community. Hours will include evenings and weekends.

Core Arts mental health creative college in Hackney are looking for a new Head of Sport  to join our senior management team. Our award winning Sports Department  provides a range of sporting provisions for adults with mental health problems as part of an individual’s recovery plan. The post holder will continue to lead the development, implementation, and delivery of services that support people with mental health problems and support positive wellbeing, ensuring that these are in line with the strategic plan of the organisation and are delivered within a framework of empowerment and excellence, tackling health inequalities in Hackney and surrounding boroughs through sport.

The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years’ management experience in a sport development role with a proven track record of delivering impactful services. Experience working with adults with mental health is desirable.  Plus excellent hands on delivery experience in sports coaching, programme and budget management, have managed staff and volunteers and be confident in developing external partnerships and contracts.

About us 
Crisis is the national charity for homeless people. We know that homelessness is not inevitable. We know that together we can end it. 
Grow your HR career in one of our fantastic new roles! 

About the roles 
The new positions in our HR Team represent a real sea change in our approach to HR partnering and advice. As HR Partner, you will provide a proactive, credible partnering approach. You’ll act as a trusted advisor to senior staff and use your HR insight to deliver solutions. We have a number of exciting plans across the charity for you to support including change projects and contributing to our priority areas such as equality, diversity and inclusion and wellbeing. Your expertise will help us grow as an employer and help you grow as an HR professional. These are fantastic opportunities in a team we are proud of! 

About you 
Successful candidates will thrive on building relationships with senior staff, enjoying influencing organisational direction and being confident to challenge where needed. You will have experience of working at HR Business Partner level, providing insight on a broad range of areas that impact employment, including delivering organisational change. You’ll be an excellent people manager, with a passion for developing the HR Advisors, as well as able to coach other managers at all levels. You’ll enjoy working collaboratively with the other HR functions, as well as across the charity, towards a shared vision. 

We want Crisis to be an inclusive employer which reflects our members and the communities we work in. We want to offer opportunities to everyone regardless of their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age. 

Working at Crisis
As a member of the team you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:
•  Interest free loans to purchase a train season ticket or a bike or for a deposit to secure a tenancy 
•  Mandatory pension scheme, with an employer contribution of 8.5% 
•  25 days’ annual leave which increases with service to 28 days
Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience and career.

Crisis staff have the opportunity to join our staff diversity networks, which aim to champion issues across the organisation, enable staff to be their authentic and best selves and contribute to making Crisis a truly diverse organisation. We have 5 staff diversity networks which include Black, Asian and Ethnic people, LGBTQ+ people, those with Lived Experience of Homelessness, Women at Crisis and Disability Awareness. 

How to apply
If this sounds like the opportunity for you, please visit our website to apply online. The job description is available on our website by clicking on the 'Vacancy Details' button.
Closing date: Sunday 16th May (at 23:59)

Accessibility
We welcome applications from people who identify as neuro diverse and want our recruitment process to be as accessible as possible. If you need us to make an adjustment or provide additional support as you apply for a role, please get in touch with the Recruitment team, contact details can be found on our website.
 
Registered Charity Numbers: E&W1082947, SC040094

A.  PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS

•S - Scholarship - Post holder will have a committed and wholehearted belief that all young people, regardless of starting point, need or complexity can make outstanding progress and reach top grades at GCSE and achieve 3 good A-levels

•T - Transformation- Post holder will have an optimistic and positive belief that all young people can constantly change and transform into confident, ambitious, honest, happy, hard-working, respectful citizens. More widely, a desire to be part of a team that is leading community transformation. Post holder will be committed to challenging the status quo

•A - Aspiration - Post holder will instil in young people a belief in themselves about what is possible and will consistently act as an aspirational role model in all that they do.

•I - Inclusion - Post holder will fully include all children regardless of complexity, need or starting point. Post holder will be committed to including all aspects of a child’s social, emotional and cultural development.  Post holder will never isolate, exclude or disconnect a student or group of students.

•R - Resilience - Post holder will be determined, hardworking and relentless in achieving the vision and instilling the values in our school. 

•S - Social Responsibility- Post holder will be committed to instilling a sense of responsibility for helping our community and altruistically ‘giving back’ to our immediate, local, national and global communities.                                                       

 B. JOB PURPOSE:

 To ensure all students, regardless of their starting point, complexity or need make outstanding progress in  our Academy

 C. RESPONSIBILITIES:

 Preparation of Lessons

• Responsible for supporting the provision of the differentiated resources and materials needed for ensuring all students in that class make outstanding progress
• Co-planning lessons with teachers to ensure that the differentiation is meeting the learning objectives.
• Planning small withdrawal group work if appropriate and creating lesson plans and resources for that small withdrawal group

 In the classroom

• Team teaching with lead teacher
• Small group withdrawal
• 1-2-1 provision for children if appropriate
• Following and promoting school policies on pupil behaviour
• Supporting implementation of strategies to manage behaviour
• Employing strategies for behaviour management and report any problems to the teacher  Covering lessons where appropriate

Outside the classroom

• Updating parents on student progress
• Tracking and maintaining records about reading levels and student underachievement
• Identifying, using data, any unidentified students with SEND
• Supporting students with SEND and exam access arrangements in assessments

Wider Contribution to the Academy

• Supporting to deliver a morning Daily DEAR session 
• Having regular wellbeing catch-ups with students with SEND
• Running small group literacy intervention sessions
• Running or supporting enrichment sessions: sport, music, technology, language etc
• Helping with the organisation of educational visits and going on them
• Assisting with duties (before school, at break time, lesson transitions, lunchtime, student dismissal)

Annual Reviews and Target Setting

• Attending annual reviews for any Education, Health & Care Plan students ensuring all targets are written and continually updated
• Completing student profiles/ SEN Support Plans on all SEN students with SMART measurable targets
• Ensuring all staff are aware through regular bulletins about targets and changes to teaching strategies needed for individuals
• Establish and maintain relationships with individuals and groups
• Establishing relationships with individuals through 1-2-1 meetings and meetings with parents
• Interacting appropriately and professionally with teachers and other colleagues and parents/carers
• Refer matters where necessary to other professionals in school, passing on concerns to the relevant person
• Caring for children in ways that shows respect and understanding for their home values and practices, complying with parents’ wishes

Review and develop own professional practice

• Taking part in regular reviews of practice and take advantage of development opportunities
• Setting personal targets and attending relevant courses/in-service training

Support maintenance of pupil safety

• Demonstrating awareness of symptoms associated with minor health problems
• Having full knowledge of Health and Safety policy
• Responding to minor health problems, for example with regard to asthma, allergies etc.
• Reporting any illness to teacher or other member of staff responsible for dealing with pupil health

Support use of ICT in the classroom

• Knowledge of the sorts of ICT software and hardware that we use
• Preparing ICT equipment for use
• Supporting classroom use of equipment

Provide support for multilingual/bilingual pupils

• Knowledge of the school’s policy for supporting multilingual/bilingual pupils
• Explaining purpose of activities to children
• Agreeing with teacher strategies for supporting pupil
• Knowledge of school’s policies for inclusion, equal opportunities, multiculturalism and anti-racism 
• Helping pupils to access curriculum and support development of target language
• Utilising cross curricular opportunities to develop target language skills
• Dealing with the challenges of the language demands of learning activities in ways that maintain pupil confidence and self-esteem

Help pupils to develop literacy and numeracy skills

• Knowledge of school’s policies for literacy and numeracy
• Working with individuals and groups on number or literacy tasks
• Knowledge of intervention strategies to support pupils with literacy and numeracy difficulties
• Supporting access to the curriculum through provision of support for literacy/numeracy difficulties

 D.  Safeguarding children and young people

Oasis is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young People. We expect  all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including an enhanced DBS check.