Centre Manager

Centre Manager

Locations: Brighton, Worthing & Chichester

Salary:  Pay Scale Points 9-12 – dependant on experience. (£18,500-£23,000)

Purpose of the Role

The Russell Martin Foundation are looking to appoint a confident and well organised Centre Manager for the Extra Time Project. The Extra Time Project works alongside mainstream secondary schools in supporting pupils struggling to maintain their behaviours in school. This can be due to a range of reasons linking to emotional wellbeing and SEMH.

The centre manager will oversee the daily running of the centre, along with leading on safeguarding for the cohort of pupils, reporting to the safeguarding lead & area manager. The centre manager will also be required to deliver subjects on the provision to help support the curriculum, along with maintaining the current excellent relationships with partner schools and local authority. The centre manager will also be responsible for a tutor group of up to 5/6 pupils during their time on the 12-week provision and be responsible for all reporting and communications between the project and home/mainstream school.

The centre manager needs to be comfortable with being in charge of the daily running of their site, pupils and staff team, alongside upkeeping strong and resilient standards to all pupils on the provision.  

Person Specification

Essential

• Previous experience of working in a classroom environment.
• Previous experience of leading and holding responsibility for a group of young people/learners.
• A strong understanding of safeguarding and processes.
• The ability to work effectively with others as a competent team member.
• Computer literacy/word processing/video/photocopier skills.
• Ability to understand RMF roles and responsibilities.
• Good time management skills.
• Ability to relate well to children and adults.
• Be enthusiastic when delivering sessions to children.
• Excellent Interpersonal skills.
• Good communication, team working and organisational skills.
• Good levels of numeracy and literacy.
• Knowledge of health & safety
• Able to take instructions and willing to learn.
• Able to work on your own or as part of a team.

Desirable

• Confident/experience in delivering a topic/subject to a group.
• Previous work experience in a sporting environment in any capacity, e.g. after-school club or sports club.
• NVQ 2 Teacher Assistant or equivalent qualification
• First Aid training (ideally paediatric)
• Previous experience of working in a pastoral/SEMH environment.
• Understanding of relevant policies/code of practice and awareness of relevant legislation
• Good knowledge of safeguarding.
• Preferably experience in SEN
• Understanding of ADHD, ASD, EDB, SEMH, MLD