23 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    9 June 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    16 May 2025

Important

This teaching role is at more than one school in the trust. You can find out more in schools overview.

Job details

Job role

  • Other leadership roles

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time: 32.5 hrs a week, Monday to Friday

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

Salary: L28 - L32

What skills and experience we're looking for

Avanti Schools Trust seeks a visionary and values-driven Regional Education Leader to join our education team. This role is central to our mission, advancing educational excellence, character formation, and spiritual insight across our schools.

Through data-led insights and strategic collaboration, you will shape the educational experience for all children and young people, with a focus on supporting vulnerable and disadvantaged pupils, while inspiring and empowering school teams to achieve remarkable outcomes.

You will ensure rigorous safeguarding practices, support school leaders to foster strong learning environments, and champion continuous improvement across all our schools.

Join us to make a profound impact across our regions and help shape the future of education within Avanti.

You can find out more below with this brief introduction message from our CEO Designate – James Biddulph:

youtu.be/adST3tpqH3Y

This position requires an in-school presence of 75-80% during term time.

Interviews

Interviews will take place on the Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th June.

We will have two online open days on Wednesday 21st May – 17:00-17:45 and Monday 2nd June – 8:45-9:30 where you will be given the opportunity to meet with the CEO Designate. If interested in attending, please contact the Talent Acquisition team to confirm the details.

What will you do?

Core Responsibilities

  • Ethos and Culture: Promote Avanti virtues and spiritual ethos across schools, ensuring cultural alignment and positioning AST as a leader in educational excellence and innovation.
  • Safeguarding: Oversee and evolve safeguarding practices, providing guidance to school leaders to ensure compliance and a strong safeguarding culture.
  • Educational Quality: Support leaders in delivering a relationship-based, inclusive education with ambitious curricula, aiming for top-tier school performance by 2029.


Leadership and Development

  • Standards and Performance: Lead rigorous appraisal and support processes to drive improvement, analyse school data, and build leadership capacity within the trust.
  • Team Development: Foster a supportive, ethical work environment, manage staff effectively, and champion professional development, CPD, and high-quality leadership.


Operational Management

  • Finance and Governance: Collaborate on budget setting, report to Trustees, and ensure transparent, impact-focused use of resources, strengthening accountability in trust operations.
  • System Leadership: Act as an ambassador for Avanti, creating networks and partnerships to enhance the trust’s educational, social, and community impact.

What are we looking for?

  • Qualified teacher status
  • Ideally have Primary School experience
  • Evidence of young person-centred thinking and practice with an attitude that every young person has the capability to progress and achieve
  • Detailed research-informed knowledge of key strategies for raising young people’s achievement and advancing effective teaching and learning
  • An excellent understanding of the schools’ sector and education more broadly
  • Confidence and knowledge of child-safeguarding issues

Please view the full Job Description for more information on the responsibilities and essential criteria required for this role.


What the school offers its staff

Why should you apply

Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place.

You will be working in a fantastic environment, with:

  • Great opportunities for professional development
  • Teacher pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
  • O2 discounts, Specsavers corporate eye test vouchers
  • Eligible for NUS Card and CSSC membership
  • Well-being programs (retreats, yoga, wellness apps)
  • Cycle-to-work Scheme

Commitment to safeguarding

Avanti Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful candidates are required to have an Enhanced DBS check unless internally appointed and still within the cycle of DBS re-checks.

Any appointment subsequently made will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory references and other pre-employment checks.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.
How to apply
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About the schools

Type
Multi-academy trust

Avanti Schools support each person’s life journey along three parallel paths: Educational excellence; Character formation; and Spiritual insight.

Avanti’s unique ethos places a key emphasis on each individual’s wellbeing and good mental health. Children with higher levels of emotional, behavioural, social, and school wellbeing, on average, have higher levels of academic achievement and are more engaged in the school community. All our schools share a dedicated approach to wellbeing, from providing yoga and mindfulness sessions, sports and exercise, charity work, and working with parents and carers as co-educators.

School Details

School type
Free School, Hindu, ages 3 to 16
Education phase
Through
School size
1086 pupils enrolled
Age range
3 to 16
Ofsted report
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School type
Free School, ages 3 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
214 pupils enrolled
Age range
3 to 11
Ofsted report
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School type
Free School, Hindu, ages 4 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
431 pupils enrolled
Age range
4 to 11
Ofsted report
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School type
Free School, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
297 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Ofsted report
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School type
Free School, ages 2 to 11
Education phase
Primary
School size
32 pupils enrolled
Age range
2 to 11
Ofsted report
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Arranging a visit to Avanti Schools Trust

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email talent@avanticareers.org.uk.

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