Trust Director of English & Secondary English Hub Lead
Colne Valley High School, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, HD7 5SP72 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st January 2026
Closing date
30 September 2025 at 9am
Date listed
19 July 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
- L12-L16
Trust Director of English & Secondary English Hub Lead job summary
About the Role:
- Trust-Wide Leadership & Collaboration: Serve as an ambassador for the Trust, promoting its vision and values, and working collaboratively with subject leaders, senior leadership teams, and colleagues across all academies to drive continuous improvement in English education.
- Curriculum & Pedagogical Development: Lead curriculum planning, development, and implementation for English across the Trust, ensuring alignment with national standards, quality first teaching strategies, and subject-specific excellence.
- Performance & Quality Assurance: Monitor, analyse, and report on student performance data to identify areas for support and intervention, ensuring consistency and high standards across all secondary academies in the Trust.
- Staff Development & Mentoring: Mentor English curriculum leaders and support professional development for teaching staff, including ITT and ECT colleagues, through targeted CPD and structured support programmes.
- Intervention & Student Outcomes: Design and implement effective intervention strategies and common assessment frameworks to raise student attainment and secure strong outcomes in English, with a focus on transition from primary to secondary education.
- English Hub Leadership: Lead the delivery of the English Hub’s secondary support offer, including conducting reading audits, managing literacy specialist support, allocating resources, and liaising with DfE and schools to track and report impact.
If you’re excited by the opportunity to inspire young minds and contribute to a culture of excellence, we want to hear from you. Join us at Colne Valley High School and help shape a brighter future for our students!
Apply now and start your journey with us by visiting our Trust site vacancy page at https://greatheightstrust.org.uk/employment-opportunities/ and click on the Apply Now option on the advert.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Closing Date: Tuesday 30th September 2025, 9am
Interviews: TBC
Great Heights Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff to share this commitment. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974; pre-employment checks will be carried out; references will be sought, and successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, an online search, and other relevant checks with statutory bodies.
GDPR Disclaimer: Please note and appreciate that whilst we review all CV’s and applications, due to the high volume that we receive on a regular basis, we can only respond to candidates that have been successful with their application. Therefore, if you do not hear from us within 14 working days of your application, please accept that your application has been unsuccessful. In line with the General Data Protection Regulations (May 2018) (replacing the Data Protection Act 1998) we will permanently delete information for all unsuccessful applications, and we will not keep candidate information on file for future vacancies at this stage of our process.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The Academy is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Parents can feel confident that careful procedures are in place to ensure that all staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children within the Academy. Consistent and effective safeguarding procedures are in place to support families, children and staff. The Academy encourages parents and children to talk freely about any concerns or worries which may affect their wellbeing. All concerns are referred to the members of staff who are our trained designated Safeguarding Officers working as the school's Safeguarding Team.
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View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Colne Valley High School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1440 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Colne Valley High School website
Colne Valley High School is one of the first purpose built comprehensive schools in England; founded in 1956 and is located in the Colne Valley, an area of outstanding beauty in the east flank of the Pennine Hills in West Yorkshire.
Easily accessible from Manchester, Huddersfield, Leeds and surrounding areas.
With over 1350 students from September 2020, and an over-subscribed Year 7 & 8 cohort, we are a bustling, popular school with a real community feel.
In September 2019, Ofsted judged the school to be ‘Good’ in all four categories. This judgement reflects the significant progress and incredible journey by the school since the previous inspection in June 2017.
‘Teachers challenge pupils to increase their knowledge across a full range of subjects.’
‘Teachers have clear expectations. They are fair and consistent in dealing with pupils’ behaviour’.
‘Teachers have good subject knowledge, which they share with pupils enthusiastically.’
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