GLT Senior School Leader - Plymouth based

Greenshaw Learning Trust, Sutton, SM1 4AF

10 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 January 2026

• Closing date

  2 November 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  22 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time, part time: Full time or Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term - 12 months
• Pay scale: Leadership pay scale, points 12 - 16, £67,898 - £75,049

What skills and experience we're looking for

Qualifications and training

Degree.

Qualified Teacher Status.

Higher qualification in education and/or management

Curriculum and pastoral experience at senior management level

Skills and experience

successful leadership at Senior, Deputy or Headteacher level

developing and implementing strategies for raising achievement and achieving excellence for students, staff and themselves

school development planning and evaluation

data analysis and target setting

using evidence-based information about effective learning and assessment for learning

resource and financial management, monitoring and evaluation

change management

leading or being part of a school from one Ofsted category to another (e.g. Good to Outstanding)

Personal attributes

Provide strategic and creative leadership to maintain and develop a school vision with quality learning for all at its centre

lead by example to inspire, motivate, influence and empower staff and students

through personal commitment, maintain and develop the GLT ethos of diversity, inclusivity and equality of opportunity

set priorities and agree and achieve ambitious goals and targets

work collaboratively with others, delegating appropriately

create an environment in which staff accept their responsibility for students' learning outcomes

seek and act on feedback from others, including work colleagues and governors

build and maintain effective relationships and communicate appropriately with governors, staff, students and parents

develop, maintain and extend appropriate partnerships with the local council, other schools, children’s services, parents and the local community

demonstrate emotional resilience, empathy and flexibility when dealing with challenge

Committed to the safeguarding of children

current educational issues, including national policies, priorities and legislation

effective strategies for maintaining and developing high standards of attainment, behaviour and attendance

principles and practice of educational inclusion, diversity and access

developing choice and flexibility to meet the learning needs of every student

managing staff, including recruitment and selection and professional development

quality assurance systems, including school review, self-evaluation and performance management

What the school offers its staff

We offer our staff:

• Professional development and career progression
• Generous pension scheme
• Blue Light Card
• Eligibility for Teacher Art Pass (teaching staff only)
• An Employee Assistance Programme
• Gym Discounts
• Free eye tests
• Cycle to work scheme
• Being part of a great team and expanding organisation

Flexible working opportunities

Full time or part time considered

Based in Plymouth cluster but may require some travel where necessary

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.

ROLE OVERVIEW

To work within GLT school’s Leadership Team to contribute to raising student achievement and the continued development of the schools. This leadership position is open to dynamic, inspiring, and outstanding senior leaders who have a proven track record of excellent attainment and achievement. The role requires strategic thinking and an ability to lead from the front, whilst offering challenge and support to all stakeholders.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide additional School Improvement capacity to our Plymouth schools

• Demonstrate a passion for education and a desire to improve the life chances of all students

• Build a culture of continuous learning and development.

• Adapt rapidly to the challenge of building on the existing strengths of the school to achieve all round excellence.

• Assess their approach and style and challenge themselves to think differently about how to best align their leadership to the needs of the school.

• To empower and motivate staff.

• maintain and develop the school's ethos of diversity, inclusivity, and equality of opportunity

• Be a highly visible presence around the school and model expectations of staff and students.

• Support the wider Trust with outreach School Improvement work

• Build positive, collaborative, relationships with schools outside of the MAT and the local authority, for the good of all children in the local area.

• Drive improvements in attendance for all children, in all GLT secondary schools in the area.

LEADERSHIP

• Support the Headteacher and Leadership Team in the day-to-day management of the school

• Communicate the school(s) vision compellingly and support the Headteacher’s strategic leadership

• Lead by example, focusing on providing excellent education for all students

• Lead on particular whole-school strategies and policy areas

• Build positive relationships with members of the school(s) community

• Keep up to date with developments in education

RAISING STANDARDS OF BEHAVIOUR

• Ensuring the behaviour systems and procedures are clear and well understood by all staff in the school

• Ensuring there are disruption free classrooms every lesson, of every day

• Supporting schools to implement and/or improve a reward system which builds a positive culture within the school

• Supporting senior leadership teams to implement the behaviour policy and apply it fairly and consistently

• Working alongside behaviour leads to effectively track and monitor behaviour patterns and themes in order to take a proactive approach to improvement

• Supporting schools in ensuring students comply with uniform requirements

• Working alongside school leaders to improve consistency of all systems

• Reducing exclusions and suspensions by working with the school to provide a high quality Early Help programme

• Supporting the school to ensure unstructured times of the school day are calm, orderly and safe

MANAGING STAFF

• Assist with the selection and recruitment of new teaching staff

• Work alongside the senior leadership team, by developing and challenging them. This will include undertaking performance management and providing necessary support and guidance, as well as managing underperformance.

MODELLING BEST PRACTICE FOR TEACHERS

• Contribute to the development of our schools by sharing effective practice, working in partnership with other schools and promoting innovation.

• Teaching highly effective lessons as and when necessary, either as ad hoc arrangement or via a teaching timetable.

SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES

• Ensure that the school(s) systems, organisation, and processes are well considered, efficient and fit for purpose

• Provide a safe, calm, and well-ordered environment for all students and staff, focused on safeguarding pupils and extremely high expectations of exemplary behaviour

• Ensure systems for the development of culture and aligned, developed, and focussed on the achieving of the school’s vision for every student.

• Work with the governing board as appropriate

• Support distribution of leadership throughout the school

SAFEGUARDING

• Be keenly aware of the responsibility for safeguarding children and to help in the application of the Safeguarding Policy within the school.

• Comply with the school’s Safeguarding Policy to ensure the welfare of children and young persons.

• Greenshaw Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people therefore this appointment will be subject to vetting, including an enhanced DBS disclosure.

Greenshaw Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

The duties and responsibilities in this job description are not restrictive and you may be required to undertake any other duties that may be required from time to time. Any such duties should not however substantially change the general character of the post.

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.

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About Greenshaw Learning Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Greenshaw Learning Trust website
• Email address: shall@greenshawlearningtrust.co.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/greenshaw-learning-trust

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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