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Director of Education (Primary)

More than one location, The Tenax Schools Trust

This job expired on 18 November 2024 – see similar jobs

Start date details
April or September 2025
Closing date
18 November 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
25 October 2024

Job details

Job role: Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern: Full time: Full-time post working Monday to Friday. 0.8 FTE considered for the right candidate.
Contract type: Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary: L30 - L34 (£101,533 - £111,976)
Pay scale: Leadership scale

What skills and experience we're looking for

You will share our vision of achieving excellence together and providing a transformative education for every child; informed and guided by our underlying inclusive Christian values and beliefs as a Church of England trust.

You will understand how to develop school improvement at scale. You will value and provide expert support to individual schools, whilst developing highly collaborative trust wide approaches to school improvement.

Your knowledge of effective curriculum design and pedagogy will be first class and evidence informed.

You will be committed to tackling educational disadvantage, upholding and securing ambitious and high educational standards for all

You will understand how to help children make exceptional progress including promoting further support for those with additional educational needs and disabilities so that all can flourish

You will also carry a humility and warmth that engages the leaders you manage and support.

You will need to see opportunities, where others see challenges and see blank canvasses as potential, rather than daunting.

Qualified Teacher Status is essential, with evidence of a commitment to ongoing professional development. You will be, or have been a successful primary Headteacher, with a track record of securing strong pupil outcomes.

What the school offers its staff

Tenax Schools Trust (TST) is at a truly exciting inflection point. We have all of the ingredients to be an exceptional Trust. Our new CEO is vastly experienced and relentlessly ambitious. We have a thriving Teaching School Hub that serves schools across Kent and East Sussex, providing access to high quality professional development.

This post is offered under teachers' terms and conditions. Whilst the candidate will be active and present in all our primary schools, there are some opportunities for home-working.

Flexible working opportunities

Further details about the role

As our Director of Education, you will be a leader to other leaders.

You will have a high level of autonomy to develop school improvement at TST. You will build, implement and constantly evaluate our approach to school development.

You will be an integral part of the trust senior team. You will get great exposure to almost all functions of a MAT and genuinely contribute to the whole trust.

You will have flexibility in your approach to work, working between the central office and schools. We operate a hybrid working model which includes the opportunity to work from home.

Commitment to safeguarding

Tenax Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to vetting checks and a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Offers of employment are conditional on checks including:
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
Disqualification under the Childcare Act
Online and social media
Prohibition from teaching
Right to work in UK
References

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 The Tenax Schools Trust

Type: Multi-academy trust
Website: The Tenax Schools Trust website (opens in new tab)
Email address: enquiries@tenaxschoolstrust.co.uk
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Tenax Schools Trust (TST) is a Church of England multi-academy trust located in West Kent and East Sussex, led by Mark Cole, CEO.

As a Church of England trust, we are legally and spiritually one body and one family of schools in which all are known, valued and loved. This commits us to providing a transformative education where we work together to ensure every child has the opportunity to excel inside and outside the classroom. We are ambitious for all - pupils and staff, and work collaboratively to open consistently the doors of opportunity.

We are a strong family of schools with ambitious plans to grow, and are proud to serve the dioceses of Rochester and Chichester. This family of schools currently comprises of seven primary schools in full membership (one of which is a free school), and one in associate member, alongside a large secondary school, Bennett Memorial Diocesan School.

Bennett Memorial Diocesan School is a Department for Education designated Teaching School Hub working with more than five hundred schools across Kent and neighbouring areas. This allows us to provide high quality professional development, and helps to secure talent pipelines from the very start of a teacher's career.

In partnership with Ambition Institute, our Teaching School Hub provides the Early Career Framework and the full suite of National Professional Qualifications (NPQs), for hundreds of teachers in the region. We also have our own initial teacher training provider, Teach Kent & Sussex, which trains teachers in partnership with primary and secondary schools both within the Trust and beyond.

We believe that our values of courage, compassion and collaboration enable us to focus on the 'how'. How we do what we do, how we interact, how we lead and how we engage.

Inspired by our Christian values and beliefs, we believe there is no limit to what can be accomplished for every child.

We are committed to creating inclusive teams that represent a breadth of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, and that can provide role models to all students in our communities. If you think you meet the essential criteria for one of our roles, we would love to hear from you regardless of sex, age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. Where possible, we seek to facilitate flexible working opportunities.

Tenax Schools Trust is:

Committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to vetting checks and a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Committed to creating inclusive teams that represent a breadth of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, and that can provide role models to all students in our communities. If you think you meet the essential criteria for one of our roles, we would love to hear from you regardless of sex, age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. Where possible, we seek to facilitate flexible working opportunities.

Committed to ensuring that all applicants can participate fully and with equal access to the selection process. Any candidate identifying as having a disability, or diagnosed with a neurodivergent condition is encouraged to contact the Trust to discuss any reasonable adjustments that would enable them to participate fully and with equal access to the selection process.