Key Role Information

Salary
0.00
Job type
Part Time
Contract type
Volunteer
Closing
29/05/2026 12:00
Contract term
TTO - Term time only
Pay grade
N/A
Department
Pastoral
Key stage
Not Applicable
Hours per week
1.50
Weeks per year
38.000
Visa sponsorship
No

Your Role

Role Description  

Position: Chair of Centre Governing Board

Location: Red Balloon Norfolk  

Safeguarding Statement

Red Balloon Educational Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All staff and volunteers must share this commitment.

This role is subject to safer recruitment checks, including an enhanced DBS and children’s barred list check, verification of identity, right to work in the UK, references, and other relevant pre-employment checks. Candidates barred from working with children must not apply. No staff will have unsupervised access to learners until all checks and mandatory safeguarding training are completed.This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (and its amendments), and applicants must declare all convictions, cautions, or reprimands, including those considered ‘spent’. Please see the 'Safeguarding Information' section of this advert for further information.

Your Role as the Chair of Centre Governing Board

Governors are the strategic leaders of our Centres and play a vital role in ensuring that every child receives the highest possible standard of education, that has been carefully tailored to meet their individual needs. 

We are seeking a Chair of Centre Governing Board for our Red Balloon Centre in Norfolk. The post holder will provide leadership to the governing board, ensuring that it fulfils its functions well, and to work closely with the Head of Centre to support, advise and help shape proposals to be discussed at board meetings, ensuring the focus is strategic. 

In line with safer recruitment practices, we are only able to accept applications via our application forms, which can be accessed by following the application link on our recruitment portal available here: Vacancies - SAMpeople Recruit. You can save your application at any point and come back to it at a later stage. 

All applicants will be contacted to advise if they have been shortlisted for an interview

Red Balloon Educational Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to creating a diverse workforce. 

We'll consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, religion, belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy, maternity, age, disability, marriage or civil partnership. . 

You can view a full job description and person specification below

Skills

Abilities, Skills and Knowledge

Knowledge of governance procedures and statutory complianceessential

Experience

Experience in a trust-level education environmentessential

Leadership

Ability to inspire, set clear direction and motivate staffessential

Personal Attributes

Committed
Dedicated

About Us

RBET - Norfolk is a cohesive team of qualified teachers, wellbeing and therapy staff and everyone understands the ethos of our approach. We aim to restore our students’ sense of self-worth and faith in their peers, education staff and the education system as a whole. Our environment supports and encourages good role models so that students can develop relationships that are founded on active listening, speaking the truth, taking responsibility for their actions and acting with integrity. We treat all our young people according to their own unique and individual needs.


At Red Balloon, any adult working with our young people offers warm, non-judgmental support so that they feel accepted, valued, respected and appreciated for who they are. All children at our centre have had traumatic experiences, which means they will show their feelings in a range of ways. We understand that behaviour is an expression of feelings and we help them to express these appropriately, moving on to behaving in a respectful and considerate manner. Through our range of therapy and 1-1 mentoring, we encourage our young people to trust their own perception of what is happening, trust that they can manage their own behaviour and appropriately judge how to behave according to the situation presented.

Red Balloon Norfolk

HR RBET

hr@rbet.ac

76 Earlham Road
Norwich
Norfolk
NR2 3DF
HR RBET
hr@rbet.ac

Safeguarding Information

Every learner has the right to flourish and be safe from harm and abuse. As a professional within Red Balloon Educational Trust; we all have a duty to keep our students safe and healthy.


Safeguarding is the action taken to promote the welfare of children and protect them from harm. It means:

  • protecting children from abuse and maltreatment
  • preventing harm to children's health or development
  • ensuring children grow up with the provision of safe and effective care
  • taking action to enable all children and young people have the best outcomes


Red Balloon Educational Trust has policies and procedures to ensure that every single learner, regardless of their age, disability, gender, race, religion, or belief, sex or sexual orientation, has a right to equal protection from harm. It's so important that everyone at Red Balloon Educational Trust knows what to look out for and how to report any concerns.


Safeguarding policies may be available at Trust level or be held by each Centre individually. All Safeguarding related policies and procedures are available on our website. Every Centre will ensure all staff complete training to ensure we all understand good practice and how to safeguard our learners and ourselves.


Due to the role involving engaging in regulated activity with young people, it is an offence to apply for the role if the you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. Safeguarding is Red Balloon Educational Trust's priority. No member of staff will have access to work with learners until all required training has been completed.