Director of School Improvement (Primary)

Oak Multi Academy Trust, Oadby, LE2 4FU

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  21st August 2026

• Closing date

  11 May 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  30 April 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £69,596.00 - £78,702.00 Annually (Actual) Leadership Pay Range L13 to L18

Director of School Improvement (Primary) job summary

Director of School Improvement (Primary)

A unique leadership opportunity

OAK Multi Academy Trust is looking for an exceptional primary leader for a new role that combines Head of School leadership with Trust wide school improvement.

OAK Trust is a high performing trust of five schools, with a strong focus on high quality teaching, instructional coaching and purposeful use of technology.

This role will initially be based at Overdale Infant School in Knighton, working closely with the Executive Headteacher and Trust leaders. Overdale Infant School and Overdale Junior School are based on the same site, offering a great opportunity to work closely across both schools.

You will lead the day to day running of Overdale Infant School while also supporting school improvement work across the Trust. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is ready for headship, or close to taking that next step.

About the role

For the first 18 to 24 months, you will:

• Lead the day to day operation of Overdale Infant School
• Drive high quality teaching and learning
• Lead and develop staff
• Support collaboration across the Overdale schools
• Contribute to school improvement across OAK Trust

About you

We are looking for a strong primary leader who:

• Has a proven track record of improving outcomes
• Can lead and develop others
• Has high expectations for all pupils
• Is committed to inclusion
• Is ready for headship or close to it

You will be resilient, reflective and committed to making a positive difference.

Why join OAK Trust?

OAK Multi Academy Trust is committed to excellent outcomes for pupils while maintaining the individual identity of each school.

We invest in staff development through Steplab instructional coaching and our Frontiers digital strategy, helping both staff and pupils thrive.

Please refer to the OAK Candidate Information Pack for more information.

We’d be happy to show you around the Overdale site before you apply. Please email hr@oaktrust.org to arrange a visit.

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.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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

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 Oak Multi Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Oak Multi Academy Trust website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/oak-multi-academy-trust

As a thriving, local trust of five schools covering 3-16 age ranges, we are located in Leicestershire and Leicester City, with an infant, a junior, two primaries, and one secondary. We are passionate about making a real
difference to the lives of all our children and about empowering our whole school communities to enable this to happen to its fullest.

Our OAK vision statement is: Together we grow great schools

We do this through our values by:
Continually identifying and supporting opportunities to improve;
having an unerring ambition to achieve; and
embodying kindness by doing the “right thing”

We believe that our colleagues are our greatest asset and we are building on our strong base of colleague benefits through extensive instructional coaching utilising Steplab. We are proud that two of our schools are
becoming a Steplab hub in September 2024. We are currently launching our exciting Trust wide digital transformation program Frontiers which will see over half our schools introduce 1:1 iPad programme in 2024-25.

Each of our schools has a strong identity, a hallmark of OAK. We collaborate extensively and agree strategy together whilst always valuing the different contexts of our schools. Each of our schools believe that we are stronger together and we have equity for all our pupils at the heart of our strategic decisions.

Our schools are:
Brookside Primary School
Manor High School
Overdale Infants School
Overdale Junior School
Woodland Grange Primary School

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