EXPIRED

This job expired on 24 November 2023

  • Start date details

    January 2023 or as soon as possible

  • Closing date

    24 November 2023 at 9am

  • Date listed

    7 November 2023

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 1

Subjects

Early Years, Key Stage 1

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£53,973.00 - £62,561.00 Annually (FTE) Leadership scale L9-15

Challenge and Support Partner job summary

Reporting to:
Chief Executive Officer

Responsible
for: Quality of provision,
teaching, learning and pupil progress.

Job Role: The
role Support and Challenge Partner is to work closely with the Chief Executive
Officer and the Director of Education to target school improvement across the
Great Learners Trust

Main Purpose of the role:


Under the direction
of the Chief Executive Officer enable the delivery of the GLT School
Improvement Offer

Ø  Carry
out lesson observations, provide feedback, model outstanding practice and work
with colleagues to ensure the best possible progress for all children

Ø  Coach
and mentor staff to be highly effective in their role – this could include
Senior Leaders, Subject Leaders or Class Teachers

Ø  Oversee
and monitor outcomes at school-level, triangulating these judgements with
robust monitoring of the quality of pupils’ learning and the quality of
teaching

Ø  Report
outcomes to the Chief Executive Officer

Ø  Act
as a critical professional friend to the schools, helping their leadership to
evaluate their schools’ performance, identify priorities for improvement and
plan effective change

Ø  Provide professional,
dynamic and ambitious challenge and support for all Great Learners Trust
Schools, which secures improvement and a high quality education for all pupils

Ø  Work
in partnership with Trust Schools to deliver the aims and actions identified in
the agreed Rapid Improvement Plans

Ø  To be
accountable for the leadership and management of identified priorities,
developing and implementing plans, policies, targets and practices within the
context of the individual school’s needs

Ø  Develop
and lead CPD sessions in line with the GLT CPD Schedule

Leadership:

·       
Build
positive relationships with the Senior Leadership Teams at each Trust School to
enable open and honest dialogue and effective challenge and support

Use effective monitoring and evaluation in order to
lead, motivate and encourage staff, and to ensure continuing school improvement

Enable staff to develop the levels of performance
necessary to achieve the agreed aims and objectives outlined in the Rapid
Improvement Plans set by the Trust

Ensure that all staff have access to regular advice
and have access to training and development appropriate to the needs of the
school and to their career-stage

To be an approachable leader aligned with the GLT
vision and values; modelling clear and effective communication skills and ensuring
all staff feel valued as individuals and receive courtesy and respect at all
times

·       
To model and exemplify the characteristics of an
excellent classroom practitioner

Proactively seek opportunities to personally
develop, be outward facing and share excellent and innovative pedagogical
practice with colleagues

·       
Demonstrate and actively promote a Growth Mindset

Curriculum:

To be responsible for supporting schools with
the development of a broad, balanced and cohesive curriculum suitable for all
of the children, enabling them to exceed national benchmarks

·       
To ensure that the intent, implementation and
impact of the curriculum is regularly reviewed, evaluated and applied at a
school-level


To ensure that the assessment requirements of
the curriculum are appropriately carried out and are triangulated with the
evaluations made about the quality and impact of the curriculum


To have a firm commitment to working in
partnership with the Local Governing Board to deliver a strong and effective
curriculum offer

Day
to day role / operational responsibilities:

To monitor the quality of teaching and
learning through detailed work scrutiny, planning scrutiny and through pupil voice,
providing through diagnostic feedback and next steps to individual teachers

To ensure standards are maintained or raised
with individual teachers, working to targets and expectations agreed with the
Senior Leadership Team

·       
To take part in paired observations and
learning walks

·       
To provide information for a range of
audiences including the Trustees and Local Governing Board

·       
To undertake research about best practice
beyond the Trust

Personal
Development:

In partnership with the Chief Executive
Officer, be committed to your own personal development and development as a
school leader

·       
Develop and
maintain a culture of high expectations for self and others

Rigorously review
and reflect about your own practice, keep up to date with developments in the
educational landscape and set personal targets and goals

Safeguarding:

·       
Ensure that a culture of safeguarding is of paramount
importance across the Great Learners Trust

·       
Report any child protection concerns immediately,
in accordance with school / Trust procedures

This
job description will be reviewed annually and may be subject to amendment or
modification at any time after consultation with the post holder and Trustees.
It is not a comprehensive statement of procedures and tasks but sets out the
main expectations of the Trust in relation to the post holder’s professional
responsibilities and duties.

The Great Learners Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the
welfare of children and young people.  We
expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks,
including enhanced DBS checks.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
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Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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About Great Learners Trust

Type
Multi-academy trust
Website
Great Learners Trust website
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Established in 2014 in Buckinghamshire, we are now a dynamic group of 11 schools, working generously in collaboration to provide the best possible education for our children.

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