Chief Executive Officer (SEL)

St Thomas Catholic Academies Trust, Luton, LU4 0PF

38 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  3 March 2025 at 3pm

• Date listed

  22 January 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: Full time, Monday to Friday
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: 135000.00

What skills and experience we're looking for

Our new Chief Executive Officer (SEL) will:-

*Embody and exemplify the Trust's core values, beliefs and behaviours

*Lead, motivate and inspire our children and our staff to optimum success

*Engage with and positively influence our parents and other key stakeholders

*Provide outstanding spiritual mission, strategic vision and tactical delivery

*Enable the Trust's vision, aims and ambitions to be fully met or exceeded

*Ensure that all educational, financial and legal regulatory requirements are met.

What the school offers its staff

Our new Chief Executive Officer (SEL) can expect from us:-

* An open, empathetic, supportive Board of challenging friends with an egalitarian and collegiate culture

*A staff culture across our family of schools and the central team that is inclusive, positive and engaged

*A substantial opportunity to achieve both organisational and personal growth and development

*An attractive negotiable salary starting circa 135k with enhancement for exceptional candidate

*An attractive remuneration package including Teachers' Pension enrolment

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.

Applying for the job

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to rlaird@academicis.co.uk

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

About St Thomas Catholic Academies Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Email address: rlaird@academicis.co.uk
• Phone number: 07901585959
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-thomas-catholic-academies-trust (opens in new tab)

The directors of St Thomas Catholic Academies Trust (STCAT), are seeking a new Chief Executive Officer (Strategic Executive Leader) to build upon the excellent foundations already in place.

STCAT was formed with eight schools in 2020, and the planned expectation is that three more Diocesan schools in Luton and Slough will join in the near future to form a Trust of twenty schools.

Our new CEO (SEL) will have a strong track record and demonstrable leadership skills, as well as the drive and passion to take on this exceptional opportunity to lead STCAT and its schools in the next stage of the journey.

We hope you find the attached candidate information pack useful in understanding our Trust and the position of CEO (SEL), and encourages you to get in touch to find out more.

To have a confidential conversation about the position please contact our retained consultant Ross Laird at Academicis on 07901 585959 or via email at rlaird@academicis.co.uk.

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