Director of Governance and Policy
The Beckmead Trust, Whyteleafe, CR3 0BLThis job expired on 20 April 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
20 April 2025 at 3:45pm
Date listed
28 March 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
- Leadership L13 - L18 (Outer London) £70,873 FTE - £79,630 FTE
Director of Governance and Policy job summary
The Beckmead Trust is an expanding learning and nurturing community for young people with Educational Health Care Plans and various types of additional needs across various sites. We are seeking an experienced candidate to ensure that all layers of The Beckmead Trust’s governance arrangements operate as a coherent whole. This is a strategic leadership position responsible for keeping the ‘conscience’ of The Beckmead Trust active and well informed.
The post holder will ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, communicate risk and consolidate local governance arrangements to provide robust challenge and support for the Trust and its constituent parts.
The postholder will be the lead in the Trust for ensuring high standards of governance including the smooth and efficient administration of the Trust Board and its Committees, as well as advising the Chair of the Board and Executive colleagues on governance process and practice. The post holder will also act as The Company Secretary.
They will oversee compliance with regulatory and legislative governance requirements, ensure the Board’s decisions are acted upon, are in accordance with the Memorandum and Articles of Association, and continue to provide public benefit. At academy and school level the postholder will be proactive and creative in identifying where governance is working well but also where interventions may be required.
They will build strong relationships with Headteachers, Chairs, Trustees, Governors and Members, ensuring governance at each academy and school is fully ‘Ofsted-ready’. As the Trust’s Governance and Policy expert the postholder will design and roll-out a professional governor training programme, and also lead on governor recruitment and retention, with a licence to be innovative in attracting high calibre volunteers.
This is a role with several elements: the need to provide strategic leadership as well as operational management; to be innovative and creative in developing system-leading governance for The Beckmead Trust, whilst also ensuring statutory and regulatory requirements continue to be met; to be an expert on the theory and approach to governance with the ability to implement and safeguard high standards of challenge and support; and to be equally comfortable operating at central as well as local level whilst ensuring all elements of governance combine to support driving improvements in standards across The Beckmead Trust.
Please see the job description for further information.
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.
About The Beckmead Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Website
- The Beckmead Trust website
The Beckmead Trust believes that every young person has the right to the best possible education and a chance to succeed.
We are stronger through a sense of community and social justice, and our family of schools all maintain this as the foundation of their provision.
Our schools deliver practice models that not only tailor education to students, but also involve parents, carers and agencies, forming a network of support for all of our young people.
Working exclusively with children with special educational needs, our team of highly-skilled and caring staff members deliver excellent pedagogy and a vibrant curriculum that helps young people to thrive, empowering them to aspire towards opportunities in their future, leading to successful and fulfilled lives.
The Beckmead Family of Schools was judged to be Outstanding by Ofsted.
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