Restorative Practice Champion (Ref: LCC2418)

Leeds City College is part of the Luminate Education Group, and one of the UK’s largest FE establishments with around 1484 employees and over 22,560 students. We offer a curriculum as diverse as our students within a vibrant and multicultural learning environment. Our goal is to deliver excellent and innovative education which supports and inspires every student to achieve their ambitions. 

The Student Life team is responsible for the personal development, behaviour and attitude of all our Further Education students, which was judged Outstanding by Ofsted. We directly deliver services to students - safeguarding, welfare and mental health and wellbeing are at the centre of what we do, working closely with curriculum teams.

We are recruiting to this exciting new post of Restorative Practice Champion to develop and lead restorative practice across the Luminate FE Colleges, champion and embed restorative approaches across all curriculum and professional services teams, further embed the whole-college approach to restorative methods which have a positive impact on organisational wellbeing and design and delivery of training activities to staff and student leaders.

We are seeking a highly motivated and inspirational individual, who relates equally well to students, staff and external partners and can drive forward the restorative practice agenda.

The successful candidate, alongside a passion for improving the lives of our students and staff, will have significant experience and a good understanding of planning, delivering and embedding restorative practices and approaches within an education, social care or related setting. Employees at Luminate have access to a range of staff benefits including a generous pension scheme, excellent annual leave entitlement, discounted gym membership, internal CPD opportunities, employee assistance programme and flexible working arrangements.

Hiring Manager Andrew Ottey

At Leeds City College, our values put students first and are at the heart of everything we do. We strive to be an outstanding and market-led further education college that delivers excellence. To achieve this, our vision, mission, and values, guide us as we continue to improve upon and expand our offering. You can read more about them here: https://www.leedscitycollege.ac.uk/the-college/about/vision-mission-values/

Leeds City College is committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and the Safeguarding of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect  all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful applicants are required to complete an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check, and other mandatory pre-employment checks which may also include checking social media profiles.

Please Note: All successful applicants who have lived or worked overseas for three months or more in the the past five years will be required to undertake an overseas check as part of the pre-employment checks.

More information on overseas checks can be found on the Government website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants 

All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory checks.

We positively welcome and encourage applicants from all sections of the community.

To apply please use link.