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  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    16 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    1 May 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Other leadership roles

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Part time: There are 2 posts. Post 1 - 3 days/week (term-time only) Post 2 - 2.5 days/week (term-time only)

Contract type

Fixed term - 12 months

Actual salary

£30,795 (Post 1); £25,663 (Post 2)

Pay scale

L7-L11

What skills and experience we're looking for

The successful candidates will:

  • play a central role in establishing effective cluster working within one or more geographical groups of schools – facilitating networks, ensuring best practice is shared and organising joint training and activities.

In addition:

  • the successful candidate for Post 1 will take on a leadership role for supporting our schools’ Christian distinctiveness and readiness for SIAMS inspections;
  • the successful candidate for Post 2 will support the delivery and quality assurance of our initial teacher training (ITT) provision and will establish a programme of support for Early Career Teachers (ECTs) across the trust.

What the school offers its staff

Chester Diocesan Academies Trust (CDAT) is a well-regarded and growing multi-academy trust of 23 primary schools across Cheshire, Wirral, Stockport, Tameside, Warrington and Halton. Our schools range from small village schools to large schools serving diverse urban areas. All are Church of England primary schools within the Diocese of Chester.

With further schools due to join in the next twelve months, we are looking to appoint two new part-time School Advisors to join our School Improvement Team.

Our School Improvement Team have a hybrid working model, with some time spent at the trust offices at The Heath Business and Tech Park in Runcorn, some home-working and visits to schools across the trust/diocese.


Further details about the role

If you would like to discuss either role in more detail, please contact CDAT’s Chief Executive, Neil Dixon, via email (neil.dixon@cdat.co.uk) to arrange an informal conversation.

To apply, please download an application form, job description and person specification, which can be found on the CDAT website: www.cdat.co.uk. Applications should be returned to office@cdat.co.uk by noon on 16th May.

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

Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to office@cdat.co.uk

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Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

About Chester Diocesan Academies Trust

Type
Multi-academy trust

CDAT was established by the Chester Diocesan Board of Education in 2014. Since our inception, we have developed our vision to build thriving learning communities that provide everyone with the opportunity to achieve the very best with their gifts and abilities.

CDAT is a fully inclusive trust. Our vision and ethos are firmly rooted in clear, core Christian values, but we are happy to work with both church and community schools, and our schools welcome people of all faiths and none. We offer an educational experience that is rooted in faith, hope and love. We support our schools to ensure that their vision permeates all aspects of school life.

Children are at the heart of CDAT. We want each individual to develop knowledge, skills, understanding and wisdom, underpinned by values based on principles that are important to people of all faiths and no faith.

‘Jesus said, ‘I have come in order that you might have life, life in all its fullness.’ (John 10:10)

CDAT wants every child to experience ‘life in all its fullness’: to have outstanding learning opportunities; opportunities to act, sing, dance, play sport and be artistic; opportunities to make lifelong friendships, help those in need and become full and rounded individuals; opportunities to develop and pursue ambitions. In short, we want the very best for all of our children.

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