Operations Manager – Vacancy
Vision and Purpose:
It is our mission to provide a stable supportive environment, where young people, at risk of failure, can develop social and personal skills which will enable them to make appropriate choices about their future.
Our aim:
- Provide young people with a balanced curriculum environment where they can be healthy, safe, enjoy and achieve and make a positive contribution.
- Provide core curriculum subjects like IT, Maths, English with a vocational option.
- Support all students in developing their personal and social skills.
- Preparation for the changes, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.
- A forward thinking educational experience.
- Real life experience.
Responsible to: Head of School
Responsible for:
- Co-ordinate and manage daily running of GC – Staff, Students, Curriculum, Activities
- Co-ordinate and manage Curriculum delivery standards, IV and liaise with the awarding bodies and schools.
- Deliver a curriculum subject preferable Motor Vehicles Studies or Maths and English for a group.
- Responsible for Health and Safety on and off site.
- Form good relationships with staff and students
- Facilitate mediation of any issues arising between students and or students and staff.
- Close working relationship with SF Key worker.
Responsibilities:
Co-ordinate and manage daily running of GC – Staff, Students, Curriculum, Activities
Coordinating daily operations via daily briefings with staff ensuring that transport for kids to and from site have been arranged. Ensuring morning and afternoon registration happens daily. Ensuring lunch is arranged for the day and that all lunches ordered are paid for. Ensuring curriculum resources and staff are ready for curriculum delivery. Ensuring all students are accessing the correct sessions and do not disrupt own or other sessions. Ensure that offsite activities are arranged, appropriately staffed and that transport is arranged. Ensure that appropriate lunch and break cover is available. De-brief staff at end of day ensuring any issues related to the day are dealt with and planning for the next day.
Co-ordinate and manage Curriculum delivery standards, IV and liaise with the awarding bodies and schools.
To lead and encourage by providing and supporting staff with examples of good practice for teaching and delivery of curriculum. Monitor and support the design and planning of the curriculum subjects. Oversee development of the YAF curriculum based on the offsite activities planned. Ensure all tutors and LSA’s are confident and comply with assessment and accreditation requirements. Liaising with awarding bodies and schools. Termly student progress reports from data collated from tutors. Termly tutor session observations and feedback reports.
Responsible for Health and Safety on and off site.
Ensure that all Health and Safety policies are adhered to and procedures are followed. Ensure that any Health & Safety issues are appropriately dealt with after further discussion with H&S Manager/Head of School. Operations Manager will ensure that appropriate and thorough reporting of all incidents/accidents are recorded and logged.
Form good relationships with staff and students.
Form trusting relationships with students and staff by being consistent in decision making. Being approachable, honest and realistic. Encourage staff that they are valued and students that they can achieve. To take a pro-active and reparative role in improving the mental and physical well-being of the students. To ensure well being issues are relayed to appropriate staff.
Facilitate mediation of issues.
Will attempt to mediate and resolve any issues arising between students and/or students and staff.
Close working relationship with SF Key worker.
The student and family support key worker will have insight to students and family issues relevant to students participation at GC. Ops manager and SF key worker will share and manage information relevant to the day to day running of GC, it is important for the Ops manager to create a close working relationship with SF key worker.