Governance Officer Role
Leeds City Academy, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS6 2LGThis job expired on 6 June 2022 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
6 June 2022 at 9am
Date listed
25 April 2022
Job details
Job role
- Headteacher
- Deputy headteacher
- Assistant headteacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- SO2 (£30,984 to £32,798)
Governance Officer Role job summary
Role:
To provide an effective clerking service to the Trust’s Local Accountability Boards (LABs) and Exclusion Panels, providing administrative support, advice and guidance regarding governance, constitutional and procedural matters.
Some evening work required to service board/committee meetings
Main duties and responsibilities
Advice and Guidance:
• Advise the Chair and LABs on governance regulations and procedural matters where necessary before, during and after meetings
• Ensure that the LABs are fully aware of their roles and responsibilities and support them in fulfilling these
• Support the LABs in adhering to best practice in governance, including in respect of their individual and collective performance
• Ensure that statutory policies are in place and are adhered to
• Actively support new governors, in association with the LAB Chair, ensuring that all new governors
• participate in induction training and have access to all necessary documents and policies
• Work with HR to set up new governors i.e. DBS checks, emails etc
Effective Organisation and Administration of Meetings:
• Liaise with the LAB Chairs and Academy Principals to prepare focused agendas for meetings
• Distribute the agenda and papers according to the agreed timetable and distribution processes
• Ensure that meetings are quorate, and that Standing Orders are adhered to
• Record the attendance of governors at meetings and ensure that action is taken in respect of extensive absence
• Produce draft minutes of LAB meetings, indicating who is responsible for any agreed action and the relevant timescales, to be checked for accuracy by the Principal and for approval by the Chair
• Follow up agreed action points with those responsible, ensuring that timescales are adhered to
• Clerk any appropriate committees/panels which require governor involvement
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.
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About Leeds City Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- View all Secondaryjobs
- School size
- 922 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Leeds City Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@whiteroseacademies.org
The White Rose Academies Trust is a Leeds-based multi-academy Trust with a reputation for raising ambitions, engaging local communities and rapid school improvement.
The Trust consists of three secondary schools - Leeds City Academy, Leeds East Academy and Leeds West Academy, and also welcomed its first primary school (Alder Tree Primary Academy) on 1st December 2020.
We believe the Trust is a highly desirable place of work for an ambitious professional, who will be joining one of the most supportive and talented teams in the country.
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