For details about Red Balloon Educational Trust please visit our website here: Home - Red Balloon Learner Centres

Trustee

Ref: SCH-RBET-0013 2 day(s) remaining
Establishment: Red Balloon Educational Trust Location: Central Services Team Salary: 0.00 Department: Other Job Type: Part Time
Closing Date: 10/10/2025 13:01 Interview Date: NA Start Date: 06/10/2025

Additional Information

Contract Type: Volunteer Contract Term: AYR - All year round Hours per Week: 1.00 Weeks per Year: 52.000 Pay Grade: NA

The Role

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, by making strategic decisions, ensuring legal compliance, managing finances and ensuring that RBET achieves its mission to provide tailored education, wellbeing and social integration to young people unable to attend mainstream school. 


You can view a full job description and person specification below.


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


Red Balloon Educational Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires the successful candidate to commit to this. The person appointed will be subjected to an enhanced DBS check. 



Related Documents

Safeguarding Information

Every student 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. Every Centre has a range of policies, and ensure all staff complete this training to ensure we all understand good practice and how to safeguard our students and ourselves.


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 Safeguarding policies and procedures to ensure that every single student, 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.


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.

Apply for this role

Submit your application today with our simple application process

 

Red Balloon Educational Trust

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

RBET HR

https://www.redballoonlearner.org/

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.

Apply Now
;