Director of Catholic Education
St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust, Liverpool, L3 1BYThis job expired on 9 September 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
January 2025 or earlier by agreement
Closing date
9 September 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
9 July 2024
Job details
Job role
- Assistant headteacher
- Deputy headteacher
- Headteacher
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Religious education
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L31-L40 (£98,616 – £122,912)
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Board of Directors of St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust is looking to appoint an outstanding Director of Catholic Education to be responsible for the strategic leadership of Catholic Life and Mission, Religious Education and Collective Worship. Reporting directly to the CEO, the Director of Catholic Education will be part of the Trust’s Senior Executive Team and play a key role in the future development of the Trust.
The successful candidate will:
- be a practising Catholic with a strong faith commitment (this is a reserved post)
- have an excellent track record as a Catholic leader, ideally with experience of leading more than one Catholic school
- be a confident and visible leader with a clear vision for Catholic Education and ensure that the example and teachings of Jesus Christ are at the centre of all that we do
- have a strong understanding of evidence-informed school improvement and a proven track record of successful Catholic leadership, with the vision, drive and energy to initiate, lead and manage improvement strategies in line with the Trust’s improvement strategy
- be willing to deputise for the CEO at key meetings and events.
What the school offers its staff
In return we can offer you:
- a highly supportive, effective and ambitious Board
- excellent professional development opportunities
- a team of highly committed headteachers
- high quality support from the CMAT central team
- Flexible working
- Health and wellbeing programme including EAP
Commitment to safeguarding
SJCMAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants. We offer all our registered candidates FREE child protection and prevent duty training. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. For details of our privacy policy, please visit https://stjosephmat.org.uk/privacy-policy.
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About St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- recruitment@sjcmat.co.uk
- Phone number
- 0151 272 0173
St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust is a based in the Liverpool City Region with five primary and four secondary academies. As a united family of academies, we are fully aligned around our central mission to transform children’s lives by providing them with a world-class Catholic education.
The Trust guarantees an excellent Catholic education to all families. Our children are entitled to access an ambitious curriculum and excellent teaching, which allow them to achieve and exceed national expectations regardless of their starting points.
Everyone involved in St Joseph CMAT is highly committed to the pursuit of high achievement. We aim for all of our academies to be at least ‘Good’ with performance in the top 20% of schools nationally in all measures, particularly in Religious Education. Our robust educational strategy, which is informed by the highest-performing Trusts in the country, is designed to ensure that all children learn to read confidently and achieve well across the curriculum so that they can go on to use their God-given gifts to make the world a better place.
St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust has sponsor status. We are able to provide intensive support to schools who find themselves in a vulnerable position and onboard ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ schools who choose to join as converter academies. For all academies in the Trust, there is a guarantee of high-quality professional development for all colleagues.
Growth
During 2023-2024, the St Joseph family will continue to grow with the addition of Notre Dame College and SFX College in Liverpool. This will mean that there are four secondary academies within the Trust.
As part of its Multi Academy Trust strategy, the Archdiocese of Liverpool has identified a group of primary schools that are invited to join St Joseph CMAT over the coming years. This is an exciting opportunity to bring together primary and secondary schools. By working as a family of academies, we will ensure that every child benefits from an excellent Catholic education from the moment they start primary school to when they leave Sixth Form.
Arranging a visit to St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@sjcmat.co.uk.
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