Quality Improvement Officer (Key Stages 2 & 3)
North Gosforth Academy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE13 6EJ9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st September 2026
Closing date
15 May 2026 at 9am
Date listed
6 May 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £86,803 - £98,105
Quality Improvement Officer (Key Stages 2 & 3) job summary
Gosforth Group is seeking an exceptional educational leader to join our Trust Education Improvement Team as Quality Improvement Officer (KS2/3). This is a senior, strategic role at the heart of our mission to ensure every child across our academies is supported to Achieve, Belong and Thrive.
The postholder will work in close partnership with leaders and teachers across Gosforth Group academies, providing trusted support, professional challenge and high‑quality assurance to secure consistently strong teaching, learning and outcomes across Key Stages 2 and 3. You will play a leading role in inspection readiness, curriculum development and transition, ensuring inclusive, ambitious provision for all learners.
Key Responsibilities
- Champion Gosforth Group’s vision and values, promoting high expectations, inclusion and equity across all academies.
- Drive improvement in teaching, learning and outcomes across KS2 and KS3.
- Provide expert support and challenge to school leaders, modelling best practice and strengthening leadership capacity.
- Contribute to Trust‑wide quality assurance and ensure schools are confident, reflective and inspection‑ready.
- Support improved SATs outcomes and the continued development of a strong, coherent KS3 curriculum.
- Lead the Trust transition strategy, strengthening internal pathways and external partnerships, including enhanced transition for pupils with SEND.
- Use data, research and professional insight to identify barriers to improvement and secure sustainable change.
- Provide clear, impactful performance reporting to senior leaders, Trustees and Governors.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
You will be a qualified teacher and senior leader with a proven track record of improving outcomes and leading meaningful change. You will bring strong professional credibility, deep curriculum knowledge and an up‑to‑date understanding of Ofsted and system improvement.
You will be:
- Values‑driven, principled and committed to improving life chances for all pupils
- Strategic, resilient and confident in offering both support and challenge
- Passionate about inclusion, wellbeing and safeguarding
- Highly collaborative, with the ability to build trust and inspire others
WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU
- A competitive salary - as an accredited Living Wage Employer, you’re guaranteed a wage that meets, and often exceeds, the real cost of living.
- Generous annual leave
- Benefits including; excellent pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, free on-site parking
- An opportunity to work with highly-skilled professionals
- Enthusiastic and motivated students
- An exciting and extensive commitment to professional development
- A school with its community at heart
- Wider career development opportunities to be involved across the Gosforth Group
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This role requires regular travel across Gosforth Group academies and flexibility to support Trust priorities.
An enhanced DBS check and all safer recruitment checks are required.
Gosforth Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
If you would like to discuss this vacancy further, or you are unable to complete the online application form and require this in another format please contact us by email: people@gosforthgroup.org.uk or telephone: 0191 429 9797, option 4 .
Applications are shortlisted for interview as they are received, and so early application is encouraged. We reserve the right to commence the interview process and close the vacancy prior to this date.
The Trust is committed to equality, inclusion and diversity and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.
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
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About North Gosforth Academy
- School type
- Academies, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 562 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- North Gosforth Academy website
Come to work in a thriving community. The Gosforth Group is a multi-academy trust consisting of six schools (Gosforth Academy, Gosforth Junior High Academy, North Gosforth Academy, Jesmond Park Academy, Callerton Academy and Great Park Academy) committed to providing a superb education for students from Year 5 through to Year 13.
North Gosforth Academy is a small secondary school with a strong focus on providing high quality education in a safe, happy and caring environment. Community is at the heart of what we do. Each student is a valued member of the academy and given opportunities which will allow them to thrive as an individual, both academically and in their own personal development.
Students receive a first class education from our team of enthusiastic, dedicated teachers and our pastoral and support staff. We have high expectations of both ourselves and of our students, and we strive to develop their talents and help them succeed. We offer a diverse and broad curriculum with both academic and vocational learning opportunities for all and a subject mix that both engages and inspires. We recognise the value of enrichment opportunities and a holistic approach to student development. We have dedicated timetabled sessions focussed on extra-curricular activities, career opportunities and post-16 progression.
Our aim is that having this rich school experience means that our students leave the academy well equipped to thrive in a busy, challenging, modern world.
We are very proud of what we do at North Gosforth Academy.
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