Director of English

Excelsior Multi Academy Trust, Birmingham, B45 9PB

7 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  28 April 2025

• Closing date

  7 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  21 January 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £65,286.00 - £70,293.00 Annually (Actual)

Director of English job summary

We are seeking to appoint a Director of English across our successful and well-regarded Trust.

This is a newly shaped role and has been created as a direct result of our Trust success and growth in recent years. We are keen to increase the capacity of our School Improvement Team to support our current and our future schools to deliver exceptional reading, writing and oracy outcomes for our pupils.

Whilst joining a dedicated School Improvement Team you will work alongside our skilful headteachers and individual school leaders of English across our Trust. Our pedagogy and vision at all times is to diminish the gap of disadvantages and removing barriers that may prevent young people becoming the best versions of themselves.

You must have a passion for working in areas of high deprivation and be keen to improve the life chances of all the pupils in our Trust. Possibly you will have completed a leadership development programme such as NPQML, NPQSL or Future Leaders and are keen to put what you have learnt into practice.

In our Trust we need an experienced middle and or senior leader with a proven track record in outstanding classroom practice; substantial and successful practice as a middle leader in a primary school achieving successful outcomes for pupils of all prior attainment; the ability to improve, challenge and support colleagues; drive and enthusiasm; and in being uncompromising in the pursuit of high standards of pupil behaviour and attainment.

We welcome applications from talented middle leaders through to experienced AHT/Dep HTs and Headteachers. Our Excelsior People Strategy aims to get the right people into the right seat from where they will grow into bigger seats, enabling our Trust to meet the needs of all our pupils effectively.

Your further growth into ambitious leadership within Excelsior here is key.

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

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Excelsior Multi Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
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