Director of Creative Learning and Wider Curriculum

Consilium Academies, Manchester, M30 0BL

7 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  October 2025

• Closing date

  17 September 2025 at 10am

• Date listed

  10 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £69,595.00 - £76,711.00 Annually (Actual) Leadership scale points L13 - L17

Director of Creative Learning and Wider Curriculum job summary

Location: Central Office (Manchester or North East), with travel across schools
Salary: Leadership Scale L13 - L17 (£69,595 - £76,711)
Contract: Full time, fixed term until 31st August 2026

About the Role
Consilium Academies is seeking an ambitious and values-driven Director of Creative Learning and Wider Curriculum to lead on creative subjects including arts, PE, technology, humanities, and other open subjects across our Trust.

You will shape and deliver a Trust-wide strategy that enhances cultural capital, promotes inclusion, and ensures that every young person — regardless of background — has access to an ambitious and enriching curriculum.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the strategic vision for creative and wider curriculum subjects, championing their role in building equity, diversity, and cultural opportunity.

• Oversee curriculum design and assessment, ensuring subjects are ambitious, inclusive, and culturally rich.

• Support staff through high-quality CPD and coaching, with a focus on adaptive and inclusive teaching.

• Work with Pupil Premium and SEND leads to ensure equitable access and outcomes.

• Build strong partnerships with cultural institutions, sports bodies, and arts organisations to broaden pupil opportunities.

• Lead Trust-wide enrichment initiatives, events, and pupil competitions.

About You
We’re looking for a leader with:

• A proven track record in improving outcomes for disadvantaged and SEND learners.

• Significant curriculum leadership experience, ideally across multiple schools or within a MAT.

• Strong knowledge of national policy and research relating to Pupil Premium, SEND, and curriculum equity.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

• A background in one or more creative or wider curriculum subjects.

Why Join Us?
At Consilium Academies, we are committed to Excellence and Equity with Integrity. We support every colleague to achieve their career ambitions through our Centre for Professional Learning and a culture of collaboration and growth.

You’ll be joining a Trust that believes every pupil deserves an excellent education and every member of staff should feel valued, supported, and inspired to succeed.

Applications and Information

For further information about the role please see attached recruitment pack including, job description and person specification.

If you have any questions about the role or would like to arrange a visit please contact zoe.levitt@consilium-at.com

Closing date for applications is 9am on Wednesday 17th September 2025.

Interviews will take place on a date to be agreed.

Please ensure that within your application you provide the names, addresses, and contact details for two referees, one of whom should be your current or most recent employer.

We look forward to welcoming a new team member who shares our commitment to excellence in education!

Consilium Academies is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointments are made subject to an Enhanced DBS Check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.

The Trust is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English.

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.

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

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Consilium Academies

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/consilium-academies

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