Governor Position (volunteer)
58 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
20 March 2025 at 3pm
Date listed
20 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time: 6 Meetings per year (approximately 2 hours each) plus lead Governor responsibilities to include visiting the academy.
Contract type
- Casual
Hourly rate
- £0 voluntary position
What skills and experience we're looking for
Thrive Education Partnership (TEP) is a Multi-Academy Trust that is rapidly expanding, with six special needs academies, an autism-specific primary satellite provision, and an SEMH/AS resource base in a large secondary mainstream school. With around 700 staff and approximately 1000 pupils between 2 and 19 years old, TEP is now seeking to appoint Governors for our Mary Elliot Academy in Walsall.
Mary Elliot Academy is seeking passionate individuals to join our team. Our school is dedicated to serving students aged 11-19 with severe and profound complex learning difficulties.
We pride ourselves on our state-of-the-art facilities, which offer exceptional educational accommodation for our pupils. Our two-storey building is surrounded by vast grounds that provide ample space for learning outside the classroom.
Each classroom is designed to be spacious and filled with natural light. Additionally, we have specialised rooms for Art, Food Technology, Design Technology, Science, Music, and ICT. Join us in creating a supportive environment where students can thrive and reach their full potential.
If you areinterested but have not done anything like this before, we can support you with a full induction and possibilities within the Thrive Education Partnership governance model. Gaining knowledge and understanding Mary Elliot Academy, and the wider context in which it operates. You would be fully supported, and you would receive a full induction to support your role.
Local Governing Boards (LGB’s) are a full and formal part of the trust governance structure and can:
- Support the effective operation of the Trust and its policies
- Provide support and challenge to the local (school level) Headteacher
- Provide a vehicle for Governor board engagement with the school, its parents and local community, to help ensure that the Academy Governors stay connected. Trusts may choose to bring in people to sit on LGBs who provide links to the local community, in addition to parents.
- Bring issues and risks to the attention of the Trust board. It is important that the board listens and responds to concerns the LGBs may raise
- Provide constructive feedback to the board where a policy may not be effective in the local context, and suggest alternative approaches
- Help ensure the trust works as one entity, in the interests of all its schools equally
What skills and qualities can I bring to this role?
- Confident and positive attitude
- Professional and reliable
- Good verbal communication skills
- Be interested in education of young people with special educational needs
- Become a lead Governor in one of the following areas:
We are particularly interested in anyone with Safeguarding experience.
Safeguarding
Quality of Education (including Personal Development)
Health & Safety
Risk & Audit
Wellbeing
Attendance
What the school offers its staff
What will I gain from the role?
- Opportunity to meet new people and the wider community
- Rewarding experience working with young people with special needs
- Training and support related to Governance
- Opportunity to improve and develop education provision
- Induction
- Expenses – all out-of-pocket expenses will be reimbursed
- Support from Governor Clerk and other Governors
- Further training
- Access to SAS (Schools Advisory Service) Wellbeing package
What support will I be given?
- Induction
- Expenses – all out-of-pocket expenses will be reimbursed
- Support from Governor Clerk and other Governors
- Further training
Flexible working opportunities
When will I be needed?
The local Governing board meetings can be held in the day or evening, approximately 6 per academic year
How much time will I need to commit?
6 Meetings per year (approximately 2 hours each) plus lead Governor responsibilities to include visiting the academy.
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
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to z.allcott@thrive.ac
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Mary Elliot Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 19
- School size
- 140 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Mary Elliot Academy website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- z.allcott@thrive.ac
- Phone number
- 01217262853
Arranging a visit to Mary Elliot Academy
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email z.allcott@thrive.ac.
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