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Graduate Teaching Assistant - High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire \n Graduate opportunity | Education experience | Teacher training available \n \n \n Graduate Teaching Assistant opportunities across Buckinghamshire for graduates looking to build a career in education, gain classroom experience and progress towards teacher training or permanent employment. \n \n \n \n Graduate Teaching Assistant \n Are you a graduate considering a career in education? Tradewind Recruitment is working with primary, secondary, specialist and alternative education settings across Buckinghamshire, offering opportunities for graduates to gain meaningful classroom experience while developing the skills required for a long-term career in education. \n This is an opportunity to work directly with pupils, teachers and support teams while gaining practical experience before progressing into teacher training, permanent education roles or other specialist pathways. \n \n \n \n The Role \n As a Graduate Teaching Assistant, you could support pupils across a range of educational settings, depending on your experience, interests and career plans. \n Responsibilities may include: \n\n • Supporting pupils with their learning across lessons and activities\n, • Working with individuals or small groups to reinforce learning\n, • Assisting teachers with classroom activities and preparation\n, • Supporting pupils with additional learning or SEND requirements\n, • Encouraging positive behaviour, engagement and independence\n, • Helping create a safe, structured and supportive learning environment\n, • Developing an understanding of classroom practice and effective teaching\n, • Building professional relationships with pupils and education staff\n\n \n \n \n Who We're Looking For: \n This opportunity would suit graduates who are considering careers such as teaching, educational psychology, SEND, youth work or wider education. \n You should have: \n\n • A degree or equivalent qualification\n, • An interest in developing a career within education\n, • Strong communication and interpersonal skills\n, • The ability to build positive relationships with children and young people\n, • Patience, reliability and a professional approach\n, • The ability to work effectively as part of a school team\n, • A willingness to learn and take feedback\n, • Previous experience working with children or young people is beneficial but not essential\n\n \n \n \n Why Work With Tradewind? \n You will receive support from Charlie, your Education Consultant, who is a former teacher and Head of Department with over 10 years' experience within the education sector. \n Alongside access to a wide range of schools and education settings, you can benefit from: \n\n • \n FREE access to 2,500+ CPD courses, resources and webinars through The National College \n • Tailored support throughout your placement\n, • A streamlined onboarding and compliance process\n, • Partnerships across mainstream, SEN and alternative provision\n, • Opportunities to move into permanent positions\n, • Teacher training opportunities with selected partner schools\n, • Holiday and pension schemes where applicable\n, • Direct career development opportunities based on your experience and ambitions\n\n For graduates wanting more than simply short-term classroom experience, this provides a route to build your education experience, establish school relationships and understand which area of the sector best suits your career plans. \n \n \n \n \n To apply: Contact Charlie at Tradewind on for an introductory and informal conversation regarding the role, or apply directly by sending an up-to-date CV and cover letter to

Description ✨ A glimpse into the role: Senior PM role in an evolving AI product environment, with around 40% of the role focused on delivery, execution and operational coordination today. You’ll work side-by-side with engineers, navigate ambiguity, and drive delivery as much as direction - turning ideas into shipped products in a fast-moving, build-first environment. --- At Spotted Zebra, we're building something we genuinely believe in: an AI-native end-to-end hiring platform that helps the world's leading organisations find the right people, faster and fairer than ever before. In short, we're making hiring something everyone loves again - both talent teams and candidates alike. We're a multi-award-winning Series A company giving talent leaders the solution they've always needed. Skills science native. AI-amplified. Built by people who've lived and breathed TA and knew there had to be a better way. Spotted Zebra brings Interview Intelligence, Skills Assessments, and AI Interview Agent together in one powerful platform, designed for intelligence and action. One powerful agent and assistant: Spot. Working the way talent teams need it to, always with humans in control. The result is talent teams get the insight to predict who will succeed, the speed to move before competitors, the governance to defend every hiring decision, and the capacity to focus on the human moments that matter most. But our product is only part of the story. Spotted Zebra isn’t just building an AI-native product; we’re building an AI-native company. AI is changing how we build, sell, support customers and make decisions. We use it to move faster, stay closer to customers, reduce unnecessary processes, and give talented people more leverage in their roles. That means joining Spotted Zebra isn’t just a chance to work on the future of hiring. It’s a chance to help shape what the future of work looks like inside a scaling company: compact, ambitious teams using AI to collaborate better, make decisions quickly, and deliver meaningful impact at speed. The FTSE100 and Fortune500 companies trusting us include British Airways, NIQ, Domino's, Lidl, Merlin Entertainments, AWE, United Utilities, and Paramount. We've been named Personnel Today's Talent Acquisition Supplier of the Year 2025, secured gold across multiple industry awards, and were recently named on the UK Top 100 Startups List. But what we’re most proud of is the team. People join Spotted Zebra because the mission is real, the product is genuinely exciting, and the opportunity to shape the future of hiring is huge. What makes it special is the way we work: smart, committed people in compact teams where trust is high, decisions happen quickly, and everyone has the chance to make a visible impact. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to do your best work - read on. Fun fact: A group of zebras is called a dazzle – and ours truly is dazzling! We create a culture in which our team thrives and gallops ahead. As we roam free and empower our dazzle, we gallop ahead on the journey to achieving our goals. We understand this journey will pose challenges along the way, yet we brighten the trail with our positive mindset and encouragement of others. The dazzle continuously moves, gaining knowledge and skills so that we can graze new grounds. You’ll take ownership of our next-generation AI recruitment product, crafted to solve one of the biggest recruitment challenges whilst ensuring every candidate has a fair and positive experience. Working closely with our AI/ML and Occupational Psychologist teams, you’ll shape how hiring teams understand talent and make their most important decisions. Key responsibilities: • Own a key product area, working closely with the Head of Product to balance strategic direction with effective day-to-day execution, • Develop a strong understanding of user needs through a combination of qualitative research, stakeholder collaboration, and data analysis, • Drive product delivery from discovery through to launch, ensuring initiatives move forward efficiently and blockers are proactively resolved, • Work closely with Engineering and Commercial to translate user, business, and operational needs into clear, deliverable requirements, • Own and prioritise the product backlog, balancing new functionality, experience improvements, technical constraints, and platform enhancements, • Collaborate proactively across Product, Engineering, Design, Data Science, Operations, and commercial teams to align priorities and drive delivery, • Make pragmatic product decisions quickly, balancing user value, technical feasibility, business priorities, and delivery pace, • Stay close to implementation details and support teams throughout the delivery lifecycle, not just at the planning stage, • Identify clear success metrics and use data to evaluate product performance and inform prioritisation, • Contribute to product direction and continuous improvement within a complex and evolving SaaS environment, • Leverage AI to accelerate discovery and delivery, enabling your team to work efficiently and deliver impact quickly, • Ensure teams have clear objectives, visibility of priorities, and alignment on how work contributes to broader company goals Requirements • Proven experience managing complex web-based SaaS products in fast-paced startup or scale-up environments, • Excellent prioritisation skills, balancing user needs, commercial priorities, technical feasibility, and delivery constraints, • Strong execution and delivery skills, with experience shipping impactful products at pace, • Comfortable operating hands-on within delivery-focused product roles, not solely strategic product leadership positions, • Strong technical fluency and confidence working closely with engineering teams; an engineering background or product-engineering mindset is highly valued, • Ability to gather, refine, and communicate clear product requirements across technical and non-technical stakeholders, • Comfortable working within ambiguity, evolving priorities, and complex or legacy product environments, • Strong product judgement and critical thinking skills, with confidence to challenge assumptions and make pragmatic decisions, • Experience collaborating closely with engineers and designers in lean, cross-functional teams, • Proactive and highly collaborative, with strong stakeholder management and communication skills, • Strong analytical skills, using quantitative and qualitative insights to inform decisions and prioritisation, • Comfortable creating wireframes, user flows, and lightweight UX concepts where needed, • Experience leveraging AI tools and workflows to improve product discovery, delivery, or team efficiency, • Understanding of AI fundamentals and responsible AI product development principles, • Adaptable, curious, and comfortable moving between strategic thinking and detailed execution work, • Experience working with agile product development methodologies in remote or distributed teams, • Experience working within HR Tech or adjacent SaaS domains, • Familiarity with ATS platforms, recruitment technology, or people operations tooling, • Experience using AI-assisted product development or prototyping tools such as Claude, Lovable, Cursor, or similar, • Previous experience working within complex or legacy product ecosystems Benefits 🤝 Meaningful share options 🏥 Health insurance 💰 Enhanced pension 🍼 Nursery salary sacrifice scheme 🏖️ 25 days holiday 🏠 Remote-first 💻 Work from home budget 🧠 L&D budget 🦷 Dental cover 👀 Eyes care support 🏢 Co-working space 🧘 Wellbeing allowance ✈️ Travel insurance 🚗 Electric car scheme At Spotted Zebra, we welcome people of all stripes. We are committed to providing equal opportunities and an inclusive and diverse culture. We believe that each and every one of us possesses an extraordinary set of skills and abilities, waiting to be discovered, nurtured, and harnessed for the benefit of all. We are a team. And no matter your race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, or disability, we will empower you to unleash your superpower to help us create a world where everyone is able to utilise their unique blend of skills and abilities to contribute to the greater good. Everyone is unique and we encourage you to let us know in your application, or share with your recruiter directly, if there is anything we can do to make your interview experience with us more comfortable and positive. At Spotted Zebra, everyone is welcome. So even if you don't meet all the requirements, we would still love to hear from you. We are always keen to speak with people who are passionate about our mission. 🦓 Ready to gallop ahead with us? We're a team that moves fast, thinks big, and isn't afraid to challenge how things have always been done. If you're excited about using AI and skills science to transform how the world hires, apply now and a member of our dazzle will be in touch!

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We are looking for an outstanding leader to join our ambitious Property team as our new Head of Safe Homes. With a portfolio of more than 10,000 homes, you will lead high-performing teams responsible for Building Safety and Compliance, including the decarbonisation of our social housing stock. This is an exciting opportunity to shape services that have a direct impact on the lives of our residents, ensuring their homes are safe, well maintained and places they are proud to live. At the heart of this role is a commitment to delivering an exceptional customer experience. You will champion a culture of resident focus, innovation and continuous improvement, ensuring that safety, quality and value for money underpin every decision. Working collaboratively with colleagues, contractors and partners, you will drive performance, deliver ambitious programmes and help us realise our vision for modern, sustainable housing services. We are seeking an exceptional leader with substantial experience across the full breadth of Building Safety and Compliance. You will bring strategic vision, commercial awareness and a proven track record of leading multidisciplinary teams to deliver outstanding outcomes. Just as importantly, you will demonstrate empathy, integrity and the ability to inspire others, creating an environment where people thrive and residents remain at the centre of everything we do. As one of two Heads of Service reporting to the Assistant Director of Assets Compliance & Investment, this is a pivotal leadership role that will play a central part in delivering our ambitious plans for the future. Success will require the ability to build trusted relationships with colleagues, contractors, elected Members and external partners, alongside excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills. If you are passionate about making a lasting difference, leading talented people and delivering safe, sustainable homes and excellent services for our residents, we would love to hear from you. Applicants must have a driving licence that is valid in the UK. A Basic DBS check will be undertaken with the Disclosure and Barring Service to ensure that the successful candidate has no relevant convictions. The deadline for applications will be midnight on the closing date shown in the advert details. Information for applicants on Local Government Reorganisation - May 2026 What is Local Government Reorganisation? The Council is going through a major change as part of Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) and devolution. This means that the district and borough councils in Hertfordshire will be replaced by a smaller number of new unitary councils. The aim is to make local government simpler and more efficient, improve services for residents, and bring decision-making closer to the communities we serve. What this means for you If you join Dacorum Borough Council between now and 31 March 2028, you will move to a new organisation on 1 April 2028. Your role will transfer to the new authority, but the way you work and who you report to may change. While this may be different from what you are used to, it is also a rare and exciting opportunity to join Dacorum at a time of real change. You will have the chance to help shape the future of local services and be part of building something new. The new unitary councils will create opportunities for innovation, growth, and better public services. They will offer a more joined-up and forward-looking working environment for employees. We are committed to supporting our staff and continuing to deliver high-quality services for residents throughout this change. Together, we are building a better future. #LI-DNI #J-18808-Ljbffr

Dacorum Borough Council is seeking an outstanding leader to join our ambitious Property team as Head of Safe Homes. Reporting to the Assistant Director of Assets Compliance & Investment, you will shape services through customer-focused culture, collaboration with contractors and partners, and delive

Oakhill Secure Training Centre is a custodial environment for children both females and males between the ages of 12 years old and 18 years old. Children may present with complex wellbeing and mental health needs, undiagnosed neurodivergent needs and complex trauma. This role sits within the healthcare team, consisting of Head of Healthcare, Primary Care Lead, Mental Health & SMS Lead, Assistant &... JBRN1_UKTJ