Overview
Job Title: Vulnerable Groups Outcomes Manager (Maternity Cover)
Salary: Commencing at £38,651 with progression to £42,223 per annum
Closing Date: 2025-09-12
About the Role
This is a fixed-term contract for 12 months to cover maternity leave.
We are seeking a Vulnerable Groups Outcomes Manager to join our Student Life team.
This is a vital role and will work throughout the Luminate Education Group, working collaboratively with both curriculum and service departments to lead on improving outcomes for vulnerable learners.
The specific focus is, but not limited to, Children Looked After, Previously Looked After, Care Leavers, those on a Child in Need Plan, Child Protection Plan, Young Carers and students in the youth justice system.
The post will focus on identification, tracking and monitoring of vulnerable groups, developing and implementing strategies to improve educational outcomes, leading to positive destinations.
What You Will Do
- Lead the college approach to improving outcomes for a range of vulnerable groups.
- Raise awareness and improve understanding amongst all staff of the experience of young people who may have had significant trauma and loss.
- Facilitate, monitor and drive the take up of the full range of Luminate Education Group services including careers guidance and aspiration raising activities, work experience and industry placements, mental health and emotional wellbeing support, student enrichment and student leadership opportunities.
- Promote the benefits of high levels of attendance in improving outcomes and recognising the protective factors of education.
- Monitor progress, attendance, retention, student experience and outcomes for identified vulnerable groups, and liaise with identified teachers/tutors where issues may arise to advocate on behalf of vulnerable students.
- Develop and maintain relationships with a range of external stakeholders including but not limited to voluntary sector agencies, statutory agencies as well as maintain our strong and innovative partnership with the Virtual School.
About You
- A recognised qualification or significant experience of working with vulnerable groups, including children looked after / care leavers.
- L3 Safeguarding qualification/DSO training and in currency.
- Detailed understanding of the experience of a range of vulnerable groups and the impacts of trauma on life outcomes.
- Experience of leading and managing people and work streams to improve outcomes for vulnerable young people.
- An ability to develop effective, resilient relationships with young people, college staff, employers and other stakeholders. Skilled negotiator and solutions focused.
- Initiative, self motivation and the ability to engage with, influence and motivate others being and an engaging speaker.
Benefits
The group offers a range of excellent benefits, including:
Annual leave:
Curriculum and Management: 44 days plus bank holidays
Curriculum support and business support: 39 days plus bank holidays
Pension schemes with generous employer contributions:
Teachers’ Pension Scheme
Local Government Pension Scheme
People’s Pension Scheme
CPD opportunities:
Annual staff conference plus 2 additional staff development days.
Qualifications including PGCE, Apprenticeships, Leadership and Management courses.
Employee wellbeing initiatives: Family Friendly Policies, discounted onsite spa (Printworks) and gym (Park Lane).
Travel and commuting: Discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus and Cycle to work schemes.
Flexible and hybrid working opportunities: Please speak to the recruiting manager regarding flexible opportunities as these differ between roles.
About Us
Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to people’s lives through genuinely transformative education and training.
We offer a wide range of job vacancies across our business support functions – Finance, Human Resources, ITSS, Marketing, Communications, Executive Support, Estates and Food Services. Our large size and diverse range of member organisations means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.
As an education provider, we are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our workforce, and you’ll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow.
Join us on the journey to being the best that we can collectively be for our students, apprentices, staff and our stakeholders.
Luminate Education Group consists of; Harrogate College (HC), Keighley College (KC), Leeds City College (LCC), Leeds Conservatoire (LC), University Centre Leeds, Leeds Sixth Form College and Yorkshire Centre for Training & Development.
SAFEGUARDING
At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students including children, young people, and vulnerable adults. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow the Safer Recruitment requirements and best practice as set out within Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks and must have two satisfactory references. Please be aware that it is a criminal offence to apply for this post if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.
EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
We recognise, value and champion diversity & Inclusion. As we engage with a diverse student population we want to ensure we reflect that in our staff population too. For us diversity is about building happy teams, full of people that want to learn and be inspired by each other, by our different experiences and backgrounds. It is important to us that both staff and students achieve their full potential. Diversity is important to us, but inclusion is equally, if not more important. It’s not just about having the representation but also providing the people we recruit with opportunities and valuing everyone’s contributions and perspectives.
RECRUITMENT AGENCIES
We kindly request that recruitment agencies do not forward any unsolicited CVs in relation to any of our advertised roles or speculatively. If we require support with any of our vacancies we will get in touch with agencies directly.
- We do not recognise submissions of unsolicited or speculative CV applications from recruitment agencies.
- We shall not be liable for any fee / commission in the event we employ a candidate that may have been submitted as an unsolicited/speculative application from an uninstructed recruitment agency.
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
