Senior School Improvement Lead - Primary
Greenshaw Learning Trust, Sutton, SM1 4AF24 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
28 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
31 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- Leadership pay scale, points 17 - 22, Outer London - £77,773 - £87,409
What skills and experience we're looking for
Thank you for your interest in our vacancy for a Senior School Improvement Lead for our Primary phase. This is an exciting opportunity to join GLT and become an integral member of the School Improvement team.
We are looking for an ambitious senior leader with significant experience in rapid school improvement, particularly leadership development, instructional coaching and raising standards. This is a permanent contract and the candidate would be expected to be able to travel to any GLT school.
Greenshaw Learning Trust is a highly successful multi academy trust that provides excellent quality, comprehensive and inclusive education through primary schools and secondary schools. Our schools are based in London, Surrey, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire, Bristol and Plymouth. We also have three shared service hubs where our central teams can be based out of. We are building a family of like-minded schools, that collaborate to provide mutual support, share their good practice and learn from each other, whilst retaining and developing their own distinctive character. We thrive from collaboration at every level. We encourage a culture of sharing ideas and learning from one another. As a Trust of schools, we are ‘Always Learning’.
To get a feel of life at Greenshaw Learning Trust, please download our ‘Why you should work for GLT’ recruitment brochure on our jobs portal.
Main responsibilities:
- Support the Director of Education and Assistant Directors (Primary) with rapid school improvement across the Trust.
- Have the ability and willingness to deputise for a headteacher or lead as Head of School in a GLT school if required.
- Complete additional projects across all primary schools as requested by headteachers.
- Support with Trust outreach and School Improvement work where necessary
- Actively promote the GLT culture of high expectations by supporting school leadership teams to improve standards across all schools.
- Provide extended additional, in-school, leadership and learning support when required.
- Support the Director and Assistant Director with SEF and Quality of Education Review Days at schools across the GLT schools.
- Line manage members of the subject specific or wider School Improvement Team, as directed by the Director of Education or Assistant Directors.
- Lead and drive significant GLT projects and/or areas depending on skill set and remit
- Support the Director of Education and Assistant Directors (Primary) by leading projects
You will need:
- Degree
- Teaching qualification
- Demonstrable experience in senior leadership role, particularly in schools requiring rapid improvement.
- Demonstrable experience in raising standards across one or more schools.
- Experience as a Headteacher or Deputy Headteacher
- Experience developing leaders in and across teams and / or schools.
- Training and development in Phonics, reading and writing.
What the school offers its staff
What’s in it for you:
- Professional development and career progression
- Generous pension scheme
- Blue Light Card
- Eligibility for Teacher Art Pass (teaching staff only)
- An Employee Assistance Programme
- Gym Discounts
- Free eye tests
- Cycle to work scheme
- Green car scheme
- Being part of a great team and expanding organisation
Further details about the role
Please download the recruitment pack for further information.
Closing date for receipt of applications is 28th April 2025. We reserve the right to appoint before the closing date.
We are committed to building an inclusive, diverse workplace where everyone can thrive. If you require any support or adjustments to interact with us, please let us know.
Greenshaw Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Commitment to safeguarding
Greenshaw Learning Trust places the highest importance on its duty to safeguard and promote the welfare and safety of all children in its care.
The Trust believes that safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children by the provision of a safe environment in which children can learn.
All Trust staff and volunteers have a responsibility to provide a safe environment in which children can learn and should make sure their approach is child-centred.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
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Additional documents
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About Greenshaw Learning Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- shall@greenshawlearningtrust.co.uk
The Greenshaw Learning Trust is an academy trust, a charitable company with the sole purpose of maintaining and developing academy schools, to provide comprehensive and inclusive education for the public benefit, funded by the Department for Education (DfE).
The Greenshaw Learning Trust is a DfE approved sponsor of both primary and secondary schools and has approval to open a new secondary ASD school in Sutton. Our schools are located in South London, Surrey, Berkshire, Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire, Bristol and Plymouth.
The Greenshaw Learning Trust provides an effective structure to ensure schools achieve real benefits from school-to-school collaboration and receive the support they need. Our culture of trust and openness fosters mutual support and continual improvement.
Each school in the Trust is led by its own leadership team and governing body, who have the support of the wider Trust to help them achieve their objectives for their school.
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