Director of Professional Learning and Development
Trust In Learning (Academies), Bristol, BS13 0RFThis job expired on 19 February 2024
Job start date
15 April 2024
Closing date
19 February 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
6 February 2024
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Part time: This is a 0.6 role, with the hours able to be worked flexibly to meet the needs of the schools and Trust.
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L18 - 22
What skills and experience we're looking for
Trust in Learning Academies (TiLA) is seeking a Director of Professional Learning and Development to join the Trust central team from Term 5 onwards. This is a 0.6 role, with the hours able to be worked flexibly to meet the needs of the schools and Trust.
You will strategically lead the Trust’s Learning and Development Strategy, and establish a Trust-wide offer for professional development based on evidence-informed approaches to learning and development. You’ll have a key role for all staff, ensuring induction is highly effective, that the ITTECT framework is well delivered, that professional development reviews make impact, leadership qualifications are accessible, exciting progression pathways are developed clearly and well understood across the organisation, and a weekly Trust CPLD offer is in place.
As such an important person in our school development team, you will also be needed to work with education professionals to support school improvement across a wider sphere, for example by carrying out school-commissioned reviews.
This Director role requires strategic thinking, high integrity, ambition, decisiveness and precision. You will be a qualified teacher experienced as a Headteacher, Deputy Headteacher or with other significant experience in school senior leadership. You may come from a primary or secondary background, and you will be prepared to work across our Trust of eight schools (primary, all-through and secondary) as part of the School Development Team. If you see yourself working in a central role, are an ambitious thinker and strategist, can write well, but also roll up your sleeves to help out where needed, want to work in a values-led Trust, and of course meet the person spec, we warmly welcome your application!
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities, in particular those who are currently under-represented within our staff team. This includes, but is not limited to, people who speak one or more community languages, people from minority ethnic groups and people who identify as disabled. We are committed to taking steps to increase the diversity of our employees and removing any barriers to opportunities and success.
In terms of a base for the school development team, our place of work is currently south Bristol, however due to growth we aim to be moving to north Bristol from summer 2024 onwards.
If you have any questions about the role, please email recruitment@tila.school
What the school offers its staff
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities, in particular those who are currently under-represented within our staff team. This includes, but is not limited to, people who speak one or more community languages, people from minority ethnic groups and people who identify as disabled. We are committed to taking steps to increase the diversity of our employees and removing any barriers to opportunities and success.
Fluency Duty
The ability to converse at ease with pupils, parents and other users of the service and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post.
In terms of a base for the school development team, our place of work is currently south Bristol, however due to growth we aim to be moving to north Bristol from summer 2024 onwards.
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.
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About Trust In Learning (Academies)
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- recruitment@tila.school
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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