English Hub Lead

Great Heights Academy Trust, Halifax, HX4 8JB

21 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2026

• Closing date

  17 April 2026 at 10am

• Date listed

  27 March 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: L4 - L6
• Additional allowances:

  L4 - L6

English Hub Lead job summary

Great Heights English Hub is seeking an ambitious and knowledgeable Hub Lead to drive the operational delivery of the DfE English Hub programme. This is a unique leadership opportunity to champion early reading, phonics, and language development across a network of schools.

About the Role

The Hub Lead will:

• Provide day‑to‑day operational leadership of the English Hub
• Line manage and quality‑assure the work of our Literacy Specialist team
• Oversee the implementation of the annual Hub delivery plan
• Build strong partnerships with schools and regional/national Hub networks
• Coordinate school support including audits, showcases, and conferences
• Support and monitor intensive support programmes with partner schools
• Contribute to DfE reporting and national Hub activities

What We’re Looking For

We welcome applications from highly skilled, committed professionals who can demonstrate:

• Strong knowledge of early reading, phonics and evidence‑based practice
• Excellent communication and relationship‑building skills
• Leadership experience within a school, Trust or system‑leadership role
• A commitment to raising standards and improving outcomes for pupils

Why Join Us?

• Lead a nationally recognised school improvement programme
• Work with a talented and passionate team across a growing MAT
• Make a direct impact on the quality of early literacy provision

Ready to Apply?

If you’re excited by the opportunity to lead meaningful change, support schools, and champion the highest standards in early literacy, we’d love to hear from you.

Join us and help shape brighter futures through exceptional reading and language education.

Great Heights Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Shortlisted candidates will be subject to related online content checks, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check as well as satisfactory references.

Great Heights Academy Trust strives to be an employer of choice. We are an inclusive and diverse multi academy trust and ultimately, our aim is to employ a workforce that reflects the communities it serves. We are committed to achieving a balanced workforce at all levels, whilst ensuring that no individual is disadvantaged or treated less favourably. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, faiths and ethnicities and will ensure a fair recruitment process without discrimination, in compliance with the Equality Act 2010.

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 Great Heights Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/great-heights-academy-trust

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