ROLE PROFILE SEND Manager
ROLE PROFILE
POST:
SEND Manager
SALARY:
£29,000 - £36,000 (depending on experience)
LOCATION:
Warrington (Dallam Lane) is the main base. There will be travel across Warrington and surrounding areas on occasion
40hrs Full-time. Including evenings, weekends
BENEFITS:
Pension contribution of 3%
• 33 days holiday - inclusive of Bank Holidays (rising with length of service)
• Free on site Gym access
• Access to OnSide’s Talent Academy, which includes bespoke training and mentoring
• Health Shield healthcare cash back plan
ABOUT ONSIDE
OnSide is about opportunity. Potential exists in every young person, in every community. What makes the difference is access to opportunity.
OnSide is a national charity that believes all young people deserve the chance to discover their passion and purpose and to explore where their potential could take them. OnSide fund and build state of the art Youth Zones in some of the country’s most economically disadvantaged areas, while training and supporting the skilled teams who run them.
Youth Zones are vibrant, purpose built spaces packed with inspiring facilities and led by dedicated youth workers who believe in young people. They help young people build confidence, ambition and skills, giving them the belief to aim high and thrive.
This is life-changing support that creates real opportunity for thousands of young people from all backgrounds.
WARRINGTON YOUTH ZONE
Warrington Youth Zone builds on the proud history, values and legacy of Warrington Youth Club, which has supported young people in the town for nearly 100 years.
Originally founded in 1930 as Warrington Boys Club by a group of parents concerned about their sons after school, the club was formally established in 1935 as part of the national Boys Club movement. The organisation later moved to a purpose built home on Rodney Street, officially opened by Princess Margaret in 1950, where it served generations of young people for the next 50 years.
As the building aged, the Club relocated to the Peace Centre in 2000 through a partnership with the Tim Parry Jonathan Ball Foundation for Peace and the NSPCC. In 2003, the charity became Warrington Youth Club, benefiting from the centre’s great facilities for the next two decades.
Since 2009, Warrington Youth Club has worked with OnSide, Warrington Borough Council and local partners to bring a Youth Zone to the town. After many years in development, planning consent was granted for Warrington Youth Zone be built on Dallam Lane, close to both the University Technical College and Rodney Street - bringing the organisation’s story full circle.
Opening our doors in July 2022, Warrington Youth Zone has become the new home and evolution of Warrington Youth Club. We believe in ‘Inspiring young people to achieve’. We exist to support young people’s development, offering opportunities to gain, increase and develop skills, knowledge, self awareness and confidence. Enabling them to make positive and healthy life choices through our wide range of programmes aimed at different age groups.
THE ROLE
To develop and deliver an exciting, inclusive programme of activities that engages young people aged 7 to 25 years with additional needs. You will design and oversee a robust, engaging and accessible offer, ensuring all young people are supported to participate meaningfully in activities of their choice.
As SEND Manager, you will lead and manage a team of support workers, youth workers and volunteers, providing clear direction, coaching and day-to-day guidance to ensure the highest quality of provision. This includes supporting staff to deliver fun, inclusive activities, as well as meeting more complex needs such as personal care and medication support safely and effectively.
You will be responsible for the delivery of the Youth Zone’s Springboard sessions, held on Sunday mornings for both junior and senior members, ensuring these sessions are wellplanned, inclusive and tailored to meet a wide range of needs. You will also oversee the coordination and delivery of 1:2:1 support sessions during the week (one junior and one senior session), ensuring appropriate staffing, planning and delivery to meet individual support needs.
The role will ensure effective use of facilities and resources to create a safe, engaging and supportive environment, building young people’s confidence, independence and capacity to engage in meaningful activities.
You will lead on ensuring that the Youth Zone and wider team consistently deliver inclusive practice across all sessions, promoting high standards and continuous improvement in SEND provision.
In addition, you will coordinate and deliver the Aspire programme, providing specialist holiday club provision for young people with SEND in partnership with Warrington Borough Council. This will include planning and delivery across the Youth Zone and satellite sites, ensuring all activity meets regulatory requirements and best practice standards.
From time to time, there will be additional annual events that you will lead and collaborate with the wider team to ensure success of the events raising a positive profile of Warrington Youth Zone and the wider objectives.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
To plan, co-ordinate and deliver a comprehensive suite of programmes for young people aged 7 to 25 with a particular focus on ensuring each session is inclusive for all., Helping to reduce barriers for young people to attend the Youth Zone whilst building their confidence, social skills and improve their overall wellbeing
• Identify the diverse needs of young people in Warrington and plan, coordinate and deliver youth work targeting these needs; ensuring young people benefit from participation in Warrington Youth Zone sessions.
To work with youth workers, support workers, volunteers, parents and community representatives to prepare and deliver youth development activities and undertake outreach work to promote the Youth Zone’s provision across all communities
• Recruit, train supervise and retain a team of Support Workers and volunteers ensuring they have the skills and confidence to deliver high quality support.
To ensure all Springboard and Aspire staff and volunteers are equipped with the resources, training, knowledge and confidence required to engage and support young people. Including the safe delivery of personal care, medication administration and specialist support where required.
• Session leading and opening/locking up of the Youth Zone safely and securely.
To identify during sessions any relevant issues or areas of development for young people who are struggling to engage or may have a barrier to participation and ensure that these are targeted in all areas of all programme delivery
Plan, deliver and further develop group trips for young people within the springboard programme in direct consultation with parents and carers. Building new activities into programme where possible.
To ensure every young person who requires additional support has an ‘All About Me’ profile and appropriate support plans in place, enabling their needs to be met safely and effectively while ensuring compliance with organisational policies and procedures.
• Organising of special creative events, challenges and projects on a regular basis for all
To ensure that young people and their ideas contribute fully to the planning and delivery of all activities in the Youth Zone
• To support the Youth Zone promotional plan and work in the community to attract young people
Ensure the assessment of young people attending Warrington Youth Zone activities in line with Health and Safety and Safeguarding requirements. This involves all assessments deemed as required by the needs of the business.
• To monitor, record, evaluate and quality assure Springboard and Aspire programmes, providing reports and information as required to ensure safe, effective and high quality provision, continuous improvement and demonstration of impact.
To plan, manage, deliver and evaluate our Aspire Holiday club and wider Aspire provision for young people with a wide range of additional needs, ensuring compliance with all relevant statutory, regulatory and Ofsted requirements, maintaining high standards of care, support and Safeguarding.
• Liaise with and maintain clear and effective communication with families and carers and external agencies (CAMHS, Warrington Disability Partnership, Warrington Borough Council) over developments for young people on our programmes
To be alert to issues of safeguarding and child protection, ensuring the welfare and safety of Youth Zone members is promoted and safeguarded at all times. Reporting any child protection concerns to the designated Child Protection Officers using WYZ policies, procedures, and practice
To support the whole Youth Zone offer as required which takes place every evening, weekend and during school holidays and will occasionally include residential work
Comply with all policies and procedures, with particular reference to safeguarding, codes of conduct, health and safety and equality and diversity.
• Be a role model for young people and present a positive “can do” attitude
To assist with any promotional activities and visits that take place at the Youth Zone, positively contributing towards increasing Youth Zone membership
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Applicants will be expected to demonstrate the experience, skills, abilities and attributes listed.
| SELECTION CRITERIA | REQUIREMENT |
| EXPERIENCE | |
| Extensive experience of delivering education, support or care to young people in-line with relevant guidance and good practice | Essential |
| Proven experience of working with young people aged 8 to 25 with additionalneeds in a range of settings | Essential |
| Proven experience of engaging vulnerable, disengaged, or hard to reach youngpeople | Essential |
| Proven ability to identify Safeguarding needs of young people following requiredescalation for the safety of the young people | Essential |
| Experience of managing a staff team, ideally including volunteers | Essential |
| Experience of monitoring and evaluation processes | Desirable |
| Experience working in partnership with external agencies | Essential |
| Experience managing externally funded projects | Desirable |
| SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ATTRIBUTES | |
| Excellent communication skills to deliver activity programmes to a wide range ofyoung people | Essential |
| Ability to train, motivate and engage staff, volunteers and young people inspecialist programme delivery | Essential |
| Strong commitment to young people and ability to engage and build positiverelationships with young people, their careers, professionals, local authority andstatutory agencies | Essential |
| Ability to plan and deliver appropriate care, support and activities for youngpeople with additional needs & or disabilities | Essential |
| Ability to coach and develop groups of young people with ability, and supportneeds | Essential |
| Ability to officiate and lead a range of programmes concurrently | Essential |
| Ability to take initiative as part of a team, and lead a team | Essential |
| Knowledge of the issues affecting young people and an ability to work withchallenging behaviour and complex needs | Essential |
| Sound knowledge and experience of working within the care, support, ordisability field with Young People in any setting | Essential |
| Knowledge of monitoring and evaluation with stakeholders, Local Authorities orother governing bodies | Essential |
| QUALIFICATIONS | |
| A relevant qualification in Youth Work, teaching, care, Education or any otherrelevant area. | Essential |
| GCSE or equivalent literacy and numeracy | Essential |
| Management or leadership/coaching qualifications | Desirable |
| Qualification (or relevant experience) in a range of activities and delivering theseto young people. | Essential |
| Evidence of ongoing professional development (for example Safeguarding, health& Safety, Management | Essential |
| SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS | |
| A wilingness to work unsociable hours | Essential |
| A willingness to cover events, holidays and staff absence | Essential |
| DBS clearance and committed to Safeguarding children | Essential |
GENERAL INFORMATION
The normal hours of work are 40 per week, or those necessary to fulfil the requirements of the position. There will be a requirement to work outside the normal 9 to 5, Monday to Friday, working week, including frequent evenings and weekends. This will mean working flexibly across the week, to suit the needs of both the role and the individual.
APPLICATION PROCESS
To apply, please complete the application from (https://warringtonyouthzone.org/getinvolved/vacancies/)
CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: 12 noon on Friday 26th June 2026
& Return to recruitment@wyz.co.uk
INTERVIEWS WILL TAKE PLACE: Week Commencing 29th June 2026
In addition, please let us know of any reasonable adjustments we can make to assist you in your application or the selection process.
In accordance with our Child Protection and Safeguarding procedures, this position requires an Enhanced DBS check.
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