School Improvement Lead – Head of English

The Good Shepherd Trust, Guildford, GU1 1JY

20 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  22nd April 25

• Closing date

  4 February 2025 at 5pm

• Date listed

  13 January 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 1, Key stage 2
• Subjects: Reception, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £58,584.00 - £65,166.00 Annually (FTE)

School Improvement Lead – Head of English job summary

Reporting to: Chief Education Officer

Salary: GST Salary Band K (£58,584 - £65,166 Annually, FTE) + Teacher’s Pension Part-Time/Full-Time

About this Role

You will be ultimately responsible for English across a growing trust and will be a passionate advocate for delivering improvements in your field. You will know first-hand the importance of educational improvement and how to develop your deep subject expertise to deliver improved outcomes for our children. You will lead and direct a joined-up trust approach across English to deliver the highest levels of support for school leaders and teaching staff across our schools.

Key responsibilities

• To lead in English across the Trust, helping schools to improve practice by providing guidance, support, and expertise in order to enhance teaching and learning outcomes.
• To assess schools’ strengths and weaknesses in your specialism, identifying areas for improvement, developing, and supporting with implementation of improvement plans, providing professional development, and training, monitoring and evaluating progress.
• To advise schools on evidence-based practice related to your specialism, complying with educational regulations and policies.
• To help schools enhance their capacity to provide high-quality education to all pupils, and to foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation in your specialist area.

Areas of Responsibility:

Operational/Strategic Leadership

• Create and implement a trust-wide development plan in your specialist area as part of the education team’s development plan in line with the trust’s stated vision, values and curriculum principles.
• Work with colleagues in the education team to develop a trust-wide curriculum policy, drawing on expert knowledge of suitable teaching and learning approaches, resources and schemes of work in your specialist area.
• Establish and oversee a trust-wide network in English; assess strengths and implement initiatives for schools to support each other and enhance practice.
• Assist in the identification, synthesis, and dissemination of evidence-based research to support outstanding subject specific teaching practice across the trust.
• Liaise with teaching hubs and other external agencies linked to your specialism, as appropriate.
• Support with the effective deployment of lead practitioners in undertaking improvement work across trust schools.
• Advise school leaders, within your specialist area, on how to support staff to maintain high expectations for all groups, ensuring all pupils have access to a rich curriculum.
• Assist subject leaders where required in ensuring that the curriculum is expertly planned and sequenced in your specialist area and provide a range of teaching strategies which supports its effective implementation.
• Provide feedback and actionable steps for curriculum improvements and ensure schools are supported to implement them.

Quality Assurance

• To contribute to the process of monitoring and evaluation of your specialist area in line with agreed trust quality assurance procedures, including evaluation against quality standards and performance criteria.
• To seek and/or implement modification and improvement where required.

Experience and Qualifications

• Qualified Teacher Status
• A degree and/or professional qualification relevant to the role and/or equivalent learning through professional experience.
• Demonstrable experience of senior leadership in education with whole school or cross-school impact.
• Evidence of working within a key education specialism at a senior level and ability to lead across a wider team.

Commitment to safeguarding

The Good Shepherd Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We ensure that all our employment practices reflect this commitment. All appointments are made subject to an enhanced DBS clearance (Disclosure and Barring Service), satisfactory references and qualification checks.

Applying for the job

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About The Good Shepherd Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: The Good Shepherd Trust website (opens in new tab)
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Welcome from the CEO - Paul Kennedy

A very warm welcome to the Good Shepherd Trust (GST) and thank you for taking the time to visit our website. I joined the GST as CEO in February 2020 having spent over twenty-five years in education as a teacher, leader, headteacher and trust CEO. This is an exciting time for the GST as we further develop and strengthen our network of schools.

The GST is a multi-academy trust serving 18 schools within the Diocese of Guildford across Surrey and Hampshire. Our trust comprises both primary and secondary schools, schools affiliated to the Church of England and others who are not. Our purpose is to grow and maintain a strong network of schools within a highly supportive and sharing network: we know that schools are better when they work together sharing common values and goals. Opportunities for staff development are a key priority for us - as a member of support staff, as a teacher, as a head teacher or as a local committee member you will have access to wide and varied professional development.

But at the heart of what we do are the children and young people within our schools. GST schools are first and foremost highly inclusive settings where we strive to see each child flourish and grow, transforming lives and offering breadth and richness in each school’s individual curriculum. We also seek to fulfil the Church of England’s vision for education providing schools for the entire community we serve, for people of all faiths and none.

Our mission is drawn from the words of Jesus in John’s Gospel – ‘I have come that you may have life and have it to the full.’ It is in this context that Jesus reveals to us the wonderful image of himself, The Good Shepherd who shows us how to live, to love and serve others whilst we experience the richness of life in its fullness.

Whether you are a parent, teacher, leader or prospective member of a local committee or a Trustee, please get in touch if you would like to know more about the GST.

With best wishes,

Paul Kennedy

Chief Executive Officer

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