Key Role Information

Salary
0.00
Job type
Part Time
Contract type
Volunteer
Closing
22/05/2026 14:01
Interview
To be agreed
Contract term
AYR - All year round
Pay grade
N/A
Department
Governance
Key stage
Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4
Hours per week
5.00
Weeks per year
52.000
Visa sponsorship
No

Your Role

Role overview

Our trustees play a vital role in making sure that Red Balloon Educational Trust (RBET) achieves its core purpose. They oversee the overall management and administration of the charity ensuring that RBET achieves its mission to provide tailored education, wellbeing and social integration to young people unable to attend mainstream school. 

Their principal role is to make strategic educational decisions in line with the vision, mission and values of the charity. Together with the other trustees they oversee the senior staff’s management and administration of the charity, ensuring legal, financial, educational and safeguarding compliance. The Board of Trustees has a collective responsibility, meaning that it always acts as a group and not as individuals. 


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.

Red Balloon Educational Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments will be conditional of the satisfactory completion of safeguarding training and pre-employment checks including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and barred list check. 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.


What we are looking for

We are seeking a Trustee with a strong background in education, ideally within a school‑based context, to complement the skills, experience, and expertise of our existing Board. This role will play a key part in ensuring that the Trust continues to meet its responsibilities and that both students and staff are well supported and cared for.

The successful candidate’s professional experience and educational values will align closely with Red Balloon’s educational philosophy and practice. They will understand and uphold the Trust’s core principles, ensuring that Red Balloon’s educational provision remains responsive to the evolving nature of modern education and to the complex needs of our learners.

The Education Trustee will focus particularly on the Trust’s educational operations, championing a positive, inclusive learning environment that supports students’ academic progress alongside their therapy and wellbeing needs. They will oversee and support Heads and staff in the development of Centre Development Plans and will monitor the personal and professional development of staff across the Trust.

Working collaboratively with the other Board members, they will help ensure that the Trust operates smoothly, efficiently, and effectively, and remains fully compliant with its legal obligations and responsibilities, always acting in accordance with Red Balloon’s values.


How to Apply

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.


Equal Opportunities

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.


Eligibility for Employment

Please note at this time, we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa, therefore, all potential employees must be eligible for employment in the United Kingdom.

Details regarding the right to work can be found here: Prove your right to work to an employer: Overview - GOV.UK


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About Us

Red Balloon Educational Trust (RBET) is a UK charity that provides an alternative provision to young people studying at KS3-4 unable to attend mainstream school due to bullying, mental health issues, trauma or neurodivergence. We provide tailored educational, wellbeing and social re-engagement programmes both in physical Centres and as a blended online and in-person provision via Red Balloon of the Air.


The RBET Central Services team provides the underpinning strategic support and organisational development for the Red Balloon network, and works to open additional Centres in new locations.

Red Balloon Educational Trust

RBET HR

hr@rbet.ac

Address: Willow Lodge
37 High Street
Milton
Cambridge
CB24 6DF
RBET HR
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.