Centre Manager

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Vacancy No: VN5605

Location: Luton, LU3 2RX

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours per week: 36.00

Working Days & Times: Monday - Friday 08:30-16:30

Description

Learning Curve Group are a growing company which is proven through our recent acquisition of MPCT bringing military academies to a total of 34 across England and Wales. This allows us to offer unique training in both vocational qualifications, employability skills, and most importantly helping learners prepare for employment with includes rewarding careers in the British Armed Forces.

Role Information

Transforming lives is what we do best, and there is no better example of this than in our Academies. As a Centre Manager at LCG, you support and lead your team to outstanding results. You will drive towards excellence in teaching and learning to ensure the centres sessions are interactive, engaging and well planned. Learners are at the centre of everything we do, and we need to ensure that they are well motivated, inspired and successful.

Important qualities:

• Strong communication with confidence, authority, clarity, and persuasiveness.
• Great teamwork.
• Analysis, problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Personal effectiveness and leadership.

Duties Leadership & Management

• Take the lead on all centre administration as per your Operational Excellence Framework (OEF) and manage the following returns:
• Weekly Checks / Returns - ICT, Registers, Bursary, Programme, Asset Returns, TAM, Staff Recruitment, Welfare, Facebook, MD Memo, Quality, FCA System.

Teaching & Learning

• Ensure you and your staff keep up to date with subject knowledge to deliver challenging lessons.
• Maintain industrial knowledge by attending events such as Reserve Training Camps, Look at Life, Familiarisation with Acquaint Days, Assessment Centres annually.
• Promote MPCT / Learning Curve Group values during all lessons.
• Use assessment to inform learners on how to improve.
• Ensure learning is systematically checked for effective learning during lessons and offer clear directed and timely support.
• Prepare demanding lessons to enable learners to realise their potential.
• Deliver curriculum on both physical and emotional wellbeing.
• Use resources that reflect and value the diversity of learners' experiences.
• Identify learners falling behind, support them to catch up.
• Set challenging individual targets for all learners.
• Support the development of Maths & English with all learners.
• Track in-work experience via FCA in England.
• Deliver learner induction and interview all potential new recruits.
• Maintain MPCT MIS with learner details and performance tracking.
• Ensure progress reviews support learner's educational development.
• Deliver physical training using MPCT bib system and ensure it is appropriately challenging.
• Deliver Military Training (MTD) following the military skills portfolios scheme of work in a cyclical manager.
• Listen to learners and parents to improve teaching and learning.
• Attend regular training on teaching and learning provided by MPCT / Learning Curve Group.

Personal Development, Behaviour and Welfare

• Create an environment where learners can discuss and debate respectfully.
• Celebrate learners' achievements, positively impacting attitudes to learning.
• Provide learners, customers and colleagues with support, advice and guidance.
• Act in line with company values and expected behaviours.
• Comply with Safeguarding, Prevent and Health and Safety policies and remain vigilant to potential concerns and risks.
• Ensure confidentiality and professionalism.

Success Measures

Key Performance Indicators: Engagement 90%, Attendance 90%, Retention 90%, Qualifications 90%, Progressions 90%, Military Progressions 40%.

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Working Flexibly

If the working hours, days or times don't quite meet your needs please contact us to see if we can accommodate working flexibly.

Experience and Qualifications

We love to develop our people so even if you don't meet 100% of the essential criteria we strongly encourage you to apply.

• Experience working within a uniformed service (army, navy, air force) - minimum of 3 years.
• Military or civilian Physical Training qualification.

Desirable

• GCSE Maths & English qualification.
• Knowledge of vocational qualifications or the education sector.
• Teaching qualification or experience in teaching/instructing.
• Experience working with young people.

Why work for Learning Curve Group

There are many reasons that make Learning Curve Group a fantastic place to work!

Benefits include:

• 26 days annual leave + Bank Holidays.
• Buy & Sell an additional 5 days each year.
• Length of service annual leave increments starting at 2 years.
• Healthcare Scheme.
• Tech Scheme.
• Ikea Scheme.
• Cycle to work Scheme.
• Paid Volunteer day each year.
• Early Finish Fridays on the last Friday of every month.
• Student / Teacher Discount.
• Uniform.

Head Office Perks

• Electric Car charging points.
• Free fruit, coffee and tea.
• Onsite shower.
• Prayer room on request or list of nearest available places of worship.

Equal Opportunities

You're unique - and we love that about you. As an equal opportunity employer, we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

We are committed to a number of covenants and pledges to show how serious we are about equal opportunities for all.

Halo Code

Learning Curve Group stands against hair discrimination in the workplace and champion the right for our Purple People to embrace Afro-Hairstyles including afros, locs, twists, braids, cornrows, fades, hair straightened through the application of heat or chemicals, weaves, wigs, headscarves, and wraps.

Disability Confident Leader

We are a Disability Confident Leader. We welcome discussion on reasonable adjustments.

Armed Forces Covenant Gold

12% of our workforce are veterans of the armed forces and we support them with an additional 10 days paid leave to attend training.

• Domestic Abuse Covenant.
• Care Leaver Covenant.
• Working Chance.
• Ban the box.

Recruitment Checks

Successful applicant will provide satisfactory references and prove eligibility to work in the UK. We will carry out adverse media checks, DBS, and ask about previous convictions if shortlisted.

Previous convictions do not automatically disqualify; we follow a risk assessment process.