Primary School Improvement Officer
Romero Catholic Academy Trust, Burnley, BB12 7NG12 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2026
Closing date
22 September 2025 at 9am
Date listed
10 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Full time, Full year
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership Spine Points L18 - L25 £78,702 - £93,424
What skills and experience we're looking for
Job Description
Job Purpose
The core elements of the Primary School Improvement Officer are to drive school standards and secure continuous school improvement.
The Primary School Improvement Officer helps to create a culture where every child is encouraged to aim high, treated equally, and supported to achieve their very best. Working closely with our Headteachers and their school teams, they offer both challenge and support where it’s needed. By focusing on local priorities and continuous improvement, the Primary School Improvement Officer works to raise standards and make sure that every pupil across our Trust has the same opportunity to succeed.
The Primary School Improvement Officer is a key member of the Romero CAT Education Team.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Your duties and responsibilities will include:
Culture and Ethos
- Show a strong commitment to promoting the Trust’s Catholic identity by striving for excellence in every aspect of the work.
- Clearly express Catholic values and a sense of moral purpose, always focused on providing the very best education for pupils and honouring the Catholic foundation of the Trust’s schools.
- Demonstrate optimism and positivity in the way you act, build supportive relationships with school leaders, staff, and communities, and lead by example. Do this with honesty, creativity, resilience, and clear direction, making the most of your own knowledge and skills, as well as those of the people around you.
- Act as an ambassador for the Trust locally, regionally and nationally, promoting the ethos and values of the trust at all times.
- Keep up to date with education and school systems locally, nationally, and globally, and continue to grow professionally in ways that support the needs of Catholic schools.
- Work with awareness and good judgement, guided by clear principles rooted in the school’s Catholic vision, and help bring local, national, and diocesan policy to life in the school setting.
- Encourage collaboration across the region so that the Trust’s resources are used in the best possible way to benefit our students’ education.
- Stay alert to national changes—whether in policy or practice—that may affect education, making sure the Trust is ready to respond and adapt.
Educational Provision and Performance
- Lead strategies to improve teaching, learning, and pupil achievement across the Trust.
- Set ambitious expectations for both achievement and attendance, ensuring that every pupil has the chance to succeed, regardless of disadvantage. Work closely with headteachers and leaders to maintain accountability, while supporting staff to understand the impact of their work on pupils’ outcomes. Ensure that personal, social, health education and citizenship are taught to a high standard, in line with the teachings of the Catholic Church.
- Support headteachers to improve the overall effectiveness of each school, including key areas such as attendance, behaviour, teaching and learning, curriculum, assessment, outcomes, safeguarding, leadership, management, and personal development.
- Support excellent teaching by drawing on a strong understanding of how pupils learn and what makes classroom practice and curriculum design successful. Ensure pupils experience a rich, balanced curriculum that supports both their well-being and the Catholic foundation of the school.
- Work with colleagues to shape a Trust-wide Primary Curriculum Strategy that is broad, balanced, and meets or exceeds the requirements of the National Curriculum.
- Promote an educational culture of openness and collaboration, encouraging schools to share best practice, make use of research, and apply robust data analysis.
- Recognise and develop emerging leaders by providing coaching and support, creating a culture where excellence is the norm and where there is clear planning for future leadership. Hold all staff accountable for their professional behaviour and practice.
- Identify and make use of high-quality local training opportunities, ensuring they are effective, well-delivered, and provide good value for money.
- Keep the Trust up to date by sourcing, interpreting, and summarising key information from government and other educational organisations about new developments in education.
- Lead the development of provision across all Trust schools by:
o promoting excellence and innovation in teaching across all subjects and key stages;
o supporting senior leaders to maintain consistently high standards of teaching, and helping to coach and develop less experienced teachers or those needing extra support;
o ensuring schools are well prepared to meet curriculum and qualifications requirements, and remain adaptable to future best practice and national policy changes;
o working with external agencies so that Trust schools can take part in national projects, research opportunities, and high-quality extra-curricular activities.
o Work with the Education Team to shape the Trust’s ITT (Initial Teacher Training) and CPLD (Continuing Professional Development) strategy, while fostering a culture of evidence-based practice across all schools.
- Provide accurate, detailed, and up-to-date reports on Trust performance and effectiveness to the Chief Education Officer, Executive Team, CEO and the Trust Board.
General Responsibilities
- Make sure schools – and the people and resources within them – are well organised and managed to provide a safe, efficient, and effective learning environment.
- Manage themselves and their relationships with others in a positive and professional way.
- Support high standards across all schools by using performance management effectively and ensuring Headteachers have access to high-quality professional development. The Primary School Improvement Officer is also committed to their own continuous development.
- Work in partnership with others, enabling Headteachers to challenge and support each other. Show a strong belief in the importance of community, recognising that schools and their communities are interdependent, and that engagement with the community helps schools grow.
- Actively engage with both internal and external school communities to promote equity and entitlement. Collaborate with other schools to share expertise and bring benefits to all.
- Attend Trust, school and external meetings and events as required.
- Maintain confidentiality in all Trust-related matters, ensuring sensitive information is protected at all times.
- Follow all of the Trust’s safeguarding policies and requirements.
- Carry out other duties appropriate to the senior nature of the role, as directed by the Director of Education, CSEL, or the Board. The responsibilities in this job description are indicative and may change over time. Postholders are expected to take on additional duties relevant to the role as needed.
Additional supporting information – specific to this post
This is a reserved post. The Directors are accountable to the bishop to ensure that the Trust is conducted as a Catholic trust in accordance with Canon law and the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church so that, at all times, the Trust may serve as a witness to the Catholic faith in Our Lord Jesus Christ. The post therefore requires a practising Catholic who can show by example and from experience that they will ensure that the school is distinctively Catholic in all its aspects.
A positive and supportive faith reference from a priest where the applicant regularly worships will be required.
What the school offers its staff
Employee Assistance Programme which includes
Subsidised Gym Membership
Teachers Pension scheme
School holidays
Enhanced Terms and Conditions after 5 years’ service
Enhanced Sick Pay
Free Parking/Company Parking
Bereavement Leave
Enhanced maternity pay
Enhanced paternity pay
Flexible working opportunities
Further information about the job
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
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About Romero Catholic Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- careers@romerocat.com
- Phone number
- 01282 855500
Romero Catholic Academy Trust is a family of Catholic schools serving the needs of children and young people in the Diocese of Salford, covering the areas of Lancashire, Blackburn with Darwen and Calderdale. To achieve this, we will uphold four key values:
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