Director of Primary

Trust In Learning (Academies), Bristol, BS13 0RF

37 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  29 January 2026 at 11am

• Date listed

  23 December 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: £120,000.00 Annually (FTE) Up to £120,000 commensurate with experience

Director of Primary job summary

Salary: Up to £120,000 commensurate with experience

Contract: Permanent / Full Time

Closing date: 12.00 pm on 29 January 2026

Interview date: Wednesday 11 February - Friday 13 February 2026

Purpose:

As a member of the Trust Executive Leadership Team, you will lead the educational strategy for the primary phase, guided by the Directors of Education. You will be responsible for driving high standards across the phase, enabling excellent outcomes for pupils in schools and supporting colleagues to deliver outstanding education across the Trust.

You will be responsible for reporting to Trust governance on the quality of education and the impact of school improvement activities across the phase. This role is pivotal in ensuring consistency, collaboration and excellence across Trust schools, while retaining each school’s individuality

Duties (further details in the attached appointment brief):

• Develop and implement a comprehensive primary education strategy in collaboration with the Directors of Education, ensuring alignment with the Trust’s five-year strategic plan and core values.
• Serve as an active member of the Trust Executive Leadership Team, providing detailed reports to the CEO, Board and governance committees on the quality of education and impact of improvement activities.
• Lead the Trust-wide approach to closing the attainment gap for disadvantaged pupils and those in receipt of Pupil Premium to ensure equitable outcomes across all primary settings.
• Oversee the quality of education across all primary schools, identifying institutional strengths and risks while ensuring all settings are prepared for and supported during Ofsted inspections.
• Conduct regular, robust performance reviews at each school using data analysis, site visits and stakeholder feedback to monitor leadership and pupil progress.
• Broker targeted support and interventions through Education Directors and School Improvement Leads to ensure continuous improvement in schools requiring rapid progress.
• Manage the educational due diligence process for new schools joining the Trust and lead their successful integration into the primary phase.
• Build leadership capacity and professional growth through the line management of Headteachers, focusing on coaching, talent management and succession planning.
• Ensure consistent application of statutory and regulatory compliance across all schools, including safeguarding, health and safety, and financial budgetary controls.
• Drive consistency and collaboration across the primary phase while actively protecting and celebrating the unique individuality and community context of each school.
• Lead community engagement initiatives and strategic partnerships that strengthen the Trust’s role in regional social and educational regeneration.
• Maintain high-level expertise in national educational developments to contribute to research, publications and the development of evidence-informed Trust policies.

We offer:

• This role is eligible for the Teaching Pension Scheme
• Enhanced CPD, including access to professional networks across the Trust
• Paid induction and training suited to the role
• Confidential access to an Employee Assistance Programme
• Use of the Cycle Scheme
• Paid completion of a DBS check
• Flu vaccination vouchers
• Free eye tests (where the employee is desk-based)
• Honouring of continuous service earned in the Local Authority

Safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts at the Trust are subject to pre-employment checks including, but not limited to, initial and periodic enhanced level checks with the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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.

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Commitment to safeguarding

Trust in Learning (Academies) is committed to safeguarding children and young people. All post holders are subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service clearance. Our policy and practice is in line with the Department for Education’s ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ most recent Guidance. We ensure that all appropriate measures are applied in relation to everyone who works for the Trust who is likely to be perceived by the children as a safe and trustworthy adult. Safer recruitment practice includes scrutinising applicants, online checks, verifying identity and academic or vocational qualifications, professional and character references, checking previous employment.

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 Trust In Learning (Academies)

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Trust In Learning (Academies) website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/trust-in-learning-academies

Trust in Learning is an education charity formed in 2008 and is an Academy Sponsor based in Bristol whose principal purpose is to create inclusive education communities that provide excellent education and excellent outcomes for children and young people.

There continues to be a degree of misunderstanding about academies and academy trusts. We are a charity whose civic responsibility is to help improve the education of children. We support schools across educational sectors from nursery and primary to secondary and special schools.

In particular Trust in Learning is committed to helping to overcome the inequalities between our communities so that every one of our children can learn well and can prosper.

n particular Trust in Learning is committed to helping to overcome the inequalities between our communities so that every one of our children can learn well and can prosper.

As a Trust we are supported by the University of the West of England together with the City of Bristol College. These two institutions make up the membership of the Trust and they share a common ethos to seek to provide inspiring educational experiences that will equip our children with the necessary skills, knowledge and understanding that will provide all of them with the opportunity to go onto university or choose to pursue a career of their choice.

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