EYFS Oracy School Improvement Lead
Greenshaw Learning Trust, Sutton, SM1 4AF22 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
11 May 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
15 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: This is a fixed term role for 12 months (or potential secondment) and is part time - 0.4 - 0.6 FTE depending on the candidate.
Contract type
- Fixed term - 12 months
Pay scale
- Leadership pay scale, points L12 - L16 (£69,239 - £76,112 FTE)
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Qualified Teacher Status
- Recent and successful experience as an Early Years leader with demonstrable examples of impact
- Experience of Language and Communication and / or Oracy curriculum development and implementation
- Effective strategies for maintaining and developing high quality adult interactions in continuous provision including the ShREC approach
- Experience of providing effective challenge, resulting in improved results
- Experience of analysing data and using this to inform practice
- A clear vision for and commitment to education for all children, particularly the most vulnerable
What the school offers its staff
What’s in it for you:
- Professional development and career progression
- Generous pension scheme
- Access to Blue Light Card scheme
- Eligibility for Teacher Art Pass (teaching staff only)
- An Employee Assistance Programme
- Gym Discounts
- Free eye tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Green car scheme
- Being part of a great team and expanding organisation
Flexible working opportunities
Further details about the role
We are hiring for a School Improvement Lead to join GLT and become an integral member of the Primary School Improvement team.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and exceptional leader to build our schools’ capacity to raise standards in oracy and in Early Years across Greenshaw Learning Trust schools so that all children attending a Greenshaw Learning Trust school achieve their full potential.
The post holder will be willing to travel to work in schools across the trust.
The Primary School Improvement Team is part of the Trust Shared Services which supports GLT schools. Our team works to build leaders’ capacity to improve outcomes particularly for our most vulnerable children ensuring all are safe, happy and successful. Our strategy focuses on ensuring that every child is ready for the next stage of education.
Greenshaw Learning Trust is a highly successful multi academy trust that provides excellent quality, comprehensive and inclusive education through primary schools and secondary schools. Our schools are based in London, Surrey, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, Bristol and Plymouth. We also have three shared service hubs where our central teams can be based out of. We are building a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing their own distinctive character. We thrive from collaboration at every level. We encourage a culture of sharing ideas and learning from one another. As a Trust of schools, we are ‘Always Learning’.
To get a feel of life at Greenshaw Learning Trust, please download our ‘Why you should work for GLT’ recruitment brochure on our jobs portal.
Main responsibilities:
- Actively promote the Greenshaw Learning Trust culture of high expectations by supporting senior leadership teams to improve standards across all schools
- Support the Directors, Assistant Directors and School Improvement Team to on-board new schools joining the Greenshaw Learning Trust
- Support and guide schools to ensure exceptional Early Years provision and pedagogy for children that enable them to thrive in their current and next stage of education
- Support and guide schools to implement the Greenshaw Oracy Strategy effectively to develop children’s communication and language skills through end of KS2
- Support and guide Oracy leaders and Early Years leaders
- Be an exceptional classroom practitioner, able to demonstrate, and support others to achieve, excellent classroom techniques leading to effective learning
- Develop a culture and ethos network across the Trust to share best practice
Commitment to safeguarding
Greenshaw Learning Trust places the highest importance on its duty to safeguard and promote the welfare and safety of all children in its care.
The Trust believes that safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children by the provision of a safe environment in which children can learn.
All Trust staff and volunteers have a responsibility to provide a safe environment in which children can learn and should make sure their approach is child-centred.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Greenshaw Learning Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- shall@greenshawlearningtrust.co.uk
The Greenshaw Learning Trust is an academy trust, a charitable company with the sole purpose of maintaining and developing academy schools, to provide comprehensive and inclusive education for the public benefit, funded by the Department for Education (DfE).
The Greenshaw Learning Trust is a DfE approved sponsor of both primary and secondary schools and has approval to open a new secondary ASD school in Sutton. Our schools are located in South London, Surrey, Berkshire, Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire, Bristol and Plymouth.
The Greenshaw Learning Trust provides an effective structure to ensure schools achieve real benefits from school-to-school collaboration and receive the support they need. Our culture of trust and openness fosters mutual support and continual improvement.
Each school in the Trust is led by its own leadership team and governing body, who have the support of the wider Trust to help them achieve their objectives for their school.
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