Careers & PSHE Strategic Lead
Lord Grey Academy, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK3 6EW12 days remaining to apply
Start date details
Easter or July 2025
Closing date
3 February 2025 at 9am
Date listed
21 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- PSHE
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday to Friday Full time teacher contract
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS / UPS
Additional allowances
TLR2c £8,279
What skills and experience we're looking for
We require a Careers & PSHE Strategic Leader to start in Easter or July 2025. The successful candidate will be a well organised and an outstanding PSHE classroom practitioner, keen to develop their leadership skills across the whole Academy through a TLR responsibility for Careers and PSHE for the Academy. This is an exciting opportunity to have a significant impact upon the personal development of our students at Lord Grey and work with the Vice Principal for Quality of Education and Personal Development to deliver an outstanding curriculum that ensures all students at Lord Grey Can both whilst with us and in their future lives.
As strategic lead of PSHE, your role will be to lead, promote and develop the PSHE/RSE offer to ensure we deliver a programme that meets statutory requirements and beyond. You will be passionate about raising the profile of PSHE/RSE and in delivering a personal development curriculum that is as ambitious, coherent and sequenced as the academic curriculum.
The role of the careers leader is to plan and implement a strategy for developing a careers programme for the school that meets all eight of the Gatsby benchmarks of good practice and prepares young people for the choices and transitions in education, training and employment, supported by a careers office and dedicated admin support.
Specific responsibilities will include:
Careers
to have strategic oversight of careers education and with the Careers Officer, lead, manage, develop, track and be accountable for CEIAG through the taught and wider curriculum in order to ensure the highest possible standards of careers education.
to line manage the Careers Officer to ensure the Gatsby Benchmarks are met and Compass+ and UNIFROG are fully utilised and impactful
to ensure all students in Y11 and Y13 receive impartial guidance on their next steps and are supported in reaching their destinations
to liaise with Careers Office and admin support to prepare reports for Governors
PSHE
Overall responsibility for the leadership, promotion and development of Personal, Social, Health Education and curriculum across the school.
Overseeing the provision of relationship and sex education (RSE) and citizenship under the statutory guidance for schools.
Ensure a holistic approach is taken to personal development within the PSHE curriculum through the delivery of topics and lessons covering CEIAG, safeguarding/child protection and strategies for positive mental health and wellbeing..
Have overall accountability for the delivery within the Department.
The right candidate will be totally aligned to our values of encouraging all students to be ambitious, determined, independent, respectful and successful and completely committed to promoting our mantra of Lord Grey Can!
What the school offers its staff
Continual Professional Development
Supportive and engaging environment.
Further details about the role
A lesson observation and a formal interview will form the selection criteria. A vacancy booklet, information for candidates booklet and the application form are all available on the vacancies section of Lord Grey Academy’s website: http://www.lordgrey.org.uk/general-information/vacancies/
Please note the application form and information for candidates booklet are available on the right hand side of the above link. Details on how to apply for this post are in the How to Apply Section of this booklet. Please do look at our recruitment video of our staff talking about working at Lord Grey and our document: Why work at Lord Grey?
Completed application form and covering letter should be submitted to Human Resources at Lord Grey Academy or emailed to hr@lordgrey.org.uk by 9am on Monday 3rd February 2025. Interviews to be held on Thursday 6th February 2025.
Only successfully short listed candidates will be contacted.
Join an Academy part of a highly supportive and growing MAT. Lord Grey joined Tove Learning Trust in April 2018 and is situated in Bletchley on the outskirts of the growing city of Milton Keynes. We achieved our GOOD OFSTED status in Summer 2022. Since then we have gone from strength to strength with improving GCSE and level 3 results; a football partnership with Paris St- Germain and winners of MK Inspiration Awards ‘Inspiring Secondary School’ 2023 and MK Educations Awards ‘Secondary School of the Year’; ‘Maths Team of the Year’ and ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ November 2023. The right candidate will join us on our exciting journey and enable us to continue to provide a great education for our amazing students as we prepare them for adult life. We have a strong collegial team who create a real atmosphere of collaboration and community who embody - Lord Grey Can!
Tove Learning Trust
The trust is committed to ensuring that all students achieve as highly as possible and we work hard to offer stimulating environments that enable every learner to progress and flourish. We have a small central team and a committed Board of Trustees that are focused on delivering outstanding outcomes. We aim to have academies that are excellent communities of learning where students thrive on success. There are seven secondary schools and one primary school in this growing Trust.
The Academy is committed to safeguarding children. The successful applicant will require an enhanced DBS check.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Academy is committed to safeguarding children. The successful applicant will require an enhanced DBS check.
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About Lord Grey Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1414 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Lord Grey Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@lordgrey.org.uk
- Phone number
- 01908 626110
Lord Grey Academy is an exciting and vibrant learning community where students enjoy great success in and outside of the classroom. Our Academy motto: Lord Grey Can is important to us as we prepare our students for successful adult lives in an increasingly competitive world.
Lord Grey Academy is popular and is the first choice school locally. We have a strong focus on academic achievement throughout the school and develop our young people to be independent and resilient learners. We are immensely proud of our inclusive ethos and of the positive relationships that we build with parents and the local community. We believe that all students can achieve.
Arranging a visit to Lord Grey Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@lordgrey.org.uk.
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