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  • Job start date

    1 January 2024

  • Closing date

    25 September 2023 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    13 September 2023

Job details

Job role

  • Head of department or curriculum

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2

Working pattern

Full time: Full time role

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£60,000 to £65,000

What skills and experience we're looking for

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate that they:

  • Have a proven track record of innovating and succeeding in a complex organisation.
  • Will inspire and challenge colleagues to share our strategic vision.
  • Have a proven track record of innovating and succeeding in a complex organisation.
  • Will recognise changing vulnerabilities and priorities in our schools and do what needs to be done to support them and ensure they succeed.
  • Have consistently high expectations to improve outcomes for all our children and colleagues.
  • Are honest, approachable, adaptable, resilient, patient, motivated and an excellent communicator who can demonstrate that they work with integrity and respect for all
  • Have excellent organisational skills and enjoy the challenges faced in a busy primary academy trust.

What the school offers its staff

  • A nationally well-regarded and inspirational trust
  • An opportunity to work for an organisation who live out our core values: ‘care, dare, fair and share’
  • A diverse workplace and community of schools
  • A strong culture of collective efficacy across Focus-Trust.
  • An experienced, supportive and committed senior leadership team who work together to achieve the best for all children and colleagues
  • A strong Trust Board who are fully committed to continued improvement whilst caringfor the wellbeing of all colleagues, children and communities
  • A commitment to support your ongoing professional development within a supportive and developmental coaching culture

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.
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.

Key purpose of the role:

  • Work with the CEO and Education Director to provide strategic and credible school improvement across the Trust.
  • Provide quality professional support for all schools within the Trust to ensure high standards in teaching and learning, leading to improved pupil outcomes.
  • Lead and inspire colleagues through responsive professional learning to ensure an ambitious curriculum for all based on a sound pedagogical approach.
  • To research latest developments in education and relay to colleagues at all levels across the Trust.
  • Lead through high expectation and aspiration; being prepared to challenge mediocrity and under-performance.
  • Work with existing excellent practitioners to empower and develop consistently strong teaching and learning through collaborative practice.
  • Keep abreast of current and innovative curriculum developments to ensure Focus-Trust schools are at the cutting edge of educational practice.

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 Focus Academy Trust (Uk) Ltd

Type
Multi-academy trust
Website
Focus Academy Trust (Uk) Ltd website
Email address
j.berry@focus-trust.co.uk
Phone number
07867 423 870
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teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/focus-academy-trust-uk-ltd

Focus-Trust is a primary trust established in 2012 as a not-for- profit charity with children at the heart of everything it does. It currently has 15 primary schools though is looking to expand and this adapted role for the Trust will be pivotal in our growth strategy. The Trust is a learning organisation, where the learning of all children and adults is valued and continually promoted.
Further details about the Focus-Trust can be found at www.focus-trust.co.uk

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