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Regional Director London & South East (Maternity cover contract)

Oasis Community Learning, London, SE1 7HS

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• Job start date

  1 October 2021

• Closing date

  22 September 2021 at 9am

• Date listed

  8 September 2021

Job details

• Job role:
  • Headteacher
  • Deputy headteacher
  • Assistant headteacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term - 6 Months
• Full-time equivalent salary: L48 – L52 + Teachers’ Pension Scheme

Regional Director London & South East (Maternity cover contract) job summary

We have a unique and exciting opportunity, on a fixed term basis, for an influential leader to play a key role within one of the largest Multi-Academy Trusts in the UK. This is a great time to join us and have a real and lasting impact on our Academies and the communities which they serve. Are you a passionate and committed educational leader looking for an exciting new challenge? As Regional Director, you will have responsibility for a regional family of secondary Oasis Academies in London and the South East. This includes overseeing and leading school improvement – which in Oasis terms is as much about building the character of our students as well as their competence, ensuring that both are worked out in the context of community. The role is also about ensuring that we always remain focused on our vision and ethos and fulfilling our responsibilities to regulators, to our staff and to our communities. This means that the focus is wider than school improvement – although this is a central element – but it also embraces shared accountability for the effective running of the organisation as a national employer, as a public body and as key contributor to local community transformation. Aspirations and Improvements As Line Manager of Executive Principals and Principals in the region, you will be accountable for the educational standards and outcomes of our Secondary Academies London and South East academies. You will draw on your wealth of experience to ensure that every academy – whatever its starting point – continues to improve on its journey to Outstanding. Your expertise and guidance will ensure that each academy has the challenge and support it needs to secure improvement and exceed expectations. As Regional Director you will join the National Education team and be line managed by a National Director who will work with you and support you in your role. We are all committed to ensuring there is ‘Exceptional Education at the Heart of the Community’. Leadership Values As Regional Director you will secure progress, develop, share and embed systems leadership across a range of academies and lead improvement in a dynamic, fast paced and successful organisation; one that is committed to inclusion, equality, relationships, hope and perseverance. This is an outward facing, high-profile role within our academies and the communities they serve. You will represent Oasis at a regional level and promote the Oasis ethos that makes us unique. Career Development We are an organisation that is wholeheartedly committed to developing our employees through internal and external training courses and offering opportunities for career progression within the family. To be effective in this role you will need to be passionate, driven and committed with demonstrable experience of securing rapid and sustained improvement and taking schools to Good or Outstanding throughout the development of your career to date. Find out more If you would like more information or to discuss the role further, please contact Jonathan Ford via Jonathan.Ford@oasisuk.org to arrange a meeting with the National Director of Academies. Apply today! We welcome applications from candidates with leadership experience across more than one school, with demonstrable experience of school improvement and the drive and passion to deliver through the lens of the Oasis vision. Please download and complete the Oasis Application Form and Equal Opportunity Form. Once complete, please return by email FAO Temi Aje to oclrecruitment@oasisuk.org. Shortlisting of applications will take place on Tuesday 28th September 2021. Interviews will be held on Monday 4th October 2021. This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent spoken English is an essential requirement for this role. This role offers a challenging but highly rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact on the educational outcomes of thousands of students. Our young people deserve the best: your role will be to ensure that they receive it. This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent spoken English is an essential requirement for this role. Oasis is committed to making a difference to the lives of the communities it works in, and as such you must show a willingness to demonstrate commitment to the values and behaviours, which flow from the Oasis ethos. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including enhanced DBS checks.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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 Oasis Community Learning

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Oasis Community Learning website
• Email address: oclrecruitment@oasisuk.org
• Phone number: 07811989369
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/oasis-community-learning

The overall vision for every part of the Oasis trust is for community. A place where everyone is included, making a contribution and reaching their God-given potential. As well as delivering first-class, innovative education, we seek to build a ‘Hub’ in each of the areas where we work; creating safe and inspiring local neighbourhoods that provide integrated and diverse services to benefit the whole person and whole community.

Exceptional Education at the Heart of the Community
We understand the complex responsibilities of education, through a lens of character, competence and community. These principles, along with the Oasis 9 Habits and ethos, are intentionally developed and embedded throughout all of our academies day-to-day.

We have a commitment to inclusion, social integration and closing the disadvantage gap; we want to give advantage to the disadvantaged. Through a fostering of character and relationships, our students and teachers can form meaningful relationships built on a shared determination to learn and develop together as one community; one family.

Together, Oasis staff aspire to:

Create safe, stimulating learning environments
Increase progress and attainment above national averages
Provide high quality teaching which secures good and accelerated progress for all students

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