Trust Director of English
Hope Sentamu Learning Trust, York, YO30 6ZS43 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
21 April 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
6 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £63,586.00 - £73,819.00 Annually (Actual) Leadership Scale Points 14 to 17. Salary shown above is based on 1.0 FTE pro rata for part time working.
Trust Director of English job summary
We are seeking to appoint a Director of English who is aligned with our mission to provide environments where children and young people can thrive and our values Respect, Teamwork and Kindness. We are very excited to offer this opportunity to enhance the provision across the Trust and play a key role in ensuring that we support our pupils, colleagues and school communities to be given opportunities so that they can live life in all its fullness, now and in the future.
This role will lead on the development and delivery of the Trust English Strategy, evolving and advancing our provision, monitoring and evaluating its efficacy. This role will involve cross-phase working with English Leaders in all our settings, providing guidance, leadership and support. We are looking for a candidate who has had a successful track record in improving outcomes for disadvantaged pupils. Over the last two years there has been significant development in relation to English in the Trust in KS4 and alignment of the Trust wide English curriculum. Experience of teaching or learning on the Eduqas syllabus would be an advantage.
We would strongly recommend, prior to application, an informal chat about this role with our Executive Director of Education, Edward Vickerman. To schedule a call, please email your request to hello@hslt.academy to arrange this.
What we can offer:
- Experienced and supportive leadership with a collaborative approach and an appreciative culture
- An established, experienced and strong central team that works closely with stakeholders across our schools/academies.
- A commitment to continuing professional development
- Structured support to unlock talent, backed by a collaborative approach and an appreciative culture,
- Teachers Pension Scheme
- Occupational Health
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to Work scheme
Job Details
Hours of Work: 1.0 FTE
Position Type: Permanent Post
Line Manager: Executive Director of Education
Location: Trust Wide
Travel Required: Yes
The salary is dependent on current qualifications and experience, please see the attached job description for more information.
Application Process
Please complete the online application form to apply for this role. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application. You should use the information supplied with in the Job Description & Person Specification to make the best of your application by identifying some specific pieces of work you may have undertaken in any of these areas. Your application may be viewed in regard to some or all of the skill specific areas over the course of the selection process. Applications via agencies will not be considered.
Hope Sentamu Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes enhanced criminal records and barring checks, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing and other vetting checks.
Our safeguarding system is underpinned by a range of policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the Trust. On joining you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice and to safeguard our children and young people.
Applications for this position will close on Monday 21st April 2025. Interviews will take place on Friday 25th April with a prospective start date of 1 September 2025.Commitment to safeguarding
Hope Sentamu Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes enhanced criminal records and barring checks, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing and other vetting checks.
Our safeguarding system is underpinned by a range of policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the Trust. On joining you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice and to safeguard our children and young people.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Hope Sentamu Learning Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
Thank you for showing an interest in joining our community of schools at Hope Sentamu Learning Trust.
Our vision is really very simple. We aspire to provide a place children and young people can thrive - life in all its fullness, a place to thrive. Our values are Kindness, Respect and Teamwork.
Here are our commitments:
A respectful and inclusive community, with a culture of thankfulness and appreciation, where we celebrate equality and diversity.
High quality first teaching across all of our schools, in every learning session, without exception.
A broad and balanced educational offer which develops all pupils academically, practically, emotionally, socially and spiritually, leading to great outcomes.
Resilient, sustainable and ethical leadership at all levels of the organisation.
Our Trust comprises of primary and secondary schools as well as alternative provisions. We are a community of fourteen schools, located across York, Hull and North Yorkshire. Our schools are supported by a central operations team and a central school improvement team.
Each one of our schools has its own distinctive character, identity and strengths which it brings to the table so that we all benefit from each other. Collaboration is at the heart of the way that we work across the Trust as every school has something to give and every school needs some help. This resonates with our Trust vision and values.
We are a new Trust, following a recent merger between Hope Learning Trust and Sentamu Academy Learning Trust in September 2021, so this is a very exciting time in our development. I am a big believer in building strong foundations so that we can concentrate on providing the best possible experiences and provision for the children and young people. It makes sense for us to do some things consistently so that we can do the basics really well. Colleagues from across the Trust have the opportunity to get involved in the development of Trust strategy so that our consistent ways of working and areas that we have alignment are developed at grass roots level. We see the alignment of key strategies across the Trust as an ever growing strength and way forward. This approach will get stronger and stronger as we develop and provides excellent career development opportunities for colleagues in all roles at all levels. Our school leaders play an important role in promoting a positive and collaborative culture across the Trust whilst delivering on the key Trust strategies within their schools.
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