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Director

Employer
G4S
Location
Oakhill, Milton Keynes
Salary
Circa £100,000 per annum with excellent company benefits
Closing date
29 Sep 2021

Job Details

G4S

DIRECTOR

Circa £100,000 per annum with excellent company benefits

Full time, Oakhill Secure Training Centre

G4S Oakhill Secure Training Centre (STC) cares for children aged 12 to 18 years old who have been remanded or sentenced to periods of detention. The children in our care can be vulnerable and challenging, with a wide range of complex social and emotional needs. This is an environment that calls for high standards of social care and service delivery to provide a secure and stable environment for children to develop their life skills and address their previous behaviours.

Role Responsibility

Oakhill STC is fast paced complex and challenging environment, which is currently experiencing a period of significant change. The centre needs to balance safety, safeguarding, health, wellbeing and learning and development opportunities for young people.

The Director is responsible for ensuring the centre has a professional, energised and dedicated workforce, equipped with specialist knowledge and training. Significant improvement of recruitment and retention of staff is required to ensure that effective regimes are delivered.

This is a real opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of children, to motivate, inspire and lead them to success - despite the significant challenges of managing a complex environment.

About You

The successful candidate needs to be resilient, innovative, passionate and have a vision of how to make Oakhill a centre of excellence. We are looking for a leader who develops transparent and collaborative ways of working to engender openness, trust and inclusion.

You must have a proven leadership experience within a care or criminal justice setting working with children.  A professional qualification in either Social Work or General Management is also desirable.

If successful, you will join a professional and friendly working environment. Our benefits are as you would expect from a large global organisation such as Company Car or allowance, Company Bonus Scheme, Pension Scheme and Private Healthcare. 

Being an inclusive employer is a top priority for us and we welcome applications from candidates from a diverse range of backgrounds.

This role is subject to a 10-year checkable history and the strict vetting standards set by G4S and the Youth Custody Services and are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. You must be eligible to work in the UK and must have been resident in the UK for a minimum period of 3 years. You will also need to provide full details of your employment and education history for the last 10 years as part of the security screening process for this role.

It is every employee’s responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of the children in our care; as such all employees are required to hold a current Enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Scheme) Certificate.

To apply please e-mail your CV along with a covering letter briefly outlining your interest via the form below by Wednesday 29th September 2021.

Or find out more, here:

https://careers.g4s.com/en/jobs/director-secure-training-centre/74173

Company

G4S is the largest secure outsourcing company in the UK and Ireland, with a turnover of more than £1.7 billion and over 55,000 employees managed from over 100 offices

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