Job Description

Barnardo's provides employment, training and skills provision across the United Kingdom. ETS Yorkshire is a busy centre offering programmes to over one hundred young people, some who have had a previous negative experience of education or training and may require additional support to fulfil their potential. We are seeking to appoint a Children's Services Manager to lead and manage our Employment, Training & Skills service based in Bradford city centre. Our regulated provision across England, including ETS Yorkshire is judged by Ofsted as 'good'.
ETS Yorkshire is an independent training provider offering post-16 learning programmes to young people. These include.

• 16-19 Study Programmes covering a range of vocational programmes
• Apprenticeships
• Other corporate partnership programmes

The successful applicant will have experience and knowledge managing and leading teams to achieve the best outcomes for every young person.
You will:

• Set ambitious, achievable goals alongside motivating a staff team to deliver outstanding results
• Be line manager to a staff team and following organisational policies and procedures.
• Be responsive to service improvement by responding to and working with internal Quality Team, along with managing weekly and monthly goals
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders to develop new business and a wide network of support and referral agencies
• As budget holder, manage a service budget including income and expenditure ensuring timely responses to finance and SMT colleagues.
• Work within the rules and regulations of government funded learning programmes ensuring full compliance.

You will have:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Competency in Microsoft Office applications
• Experience of leading a team, and a track record of setting and achieving goals, including, recruitment, achievement, progression and full budgetary responsibility.
• Good operational knowledge of Awarding Organisation and funding body rules and regulations, and be able to implement these across the team to produce excellent outcomes for all learners and apprentices.
• A passion to see the most vulnerable young people achieve their potential by achieving and progressing in their chosen careers.

You will have received a Children's Services Manager job description and person specification. This is a generic role in use throughout the organisation and therefore Barnardo's uses generic job descriptions and person specifications when advertising for such roles.
For any informal enquiries, please contact Geoff Mount, Head of Operations on 07881 500699.
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, 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 . 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 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.
Benefits
Workplace Offer: What it means for you
The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract
About Barnardo's
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

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