Trust Leader - Early Years, English (Primary Phase)

The Howard Partnership Trust, Leatherhead, KT24 5JR

10 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  12 May 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  1 May 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: £59,213.00 - £65,188.00 Annually (FTE)

Trust Leader - Early Years, English (Primary Phase) job summary

Are you an experienced teacher with a deep passion for your subject?

Do you want to develop your career Trust-wide?

Do you want to support other teachers to raise attainment in your subject across our Trust?

Do you belong in a Trust dedicated to giving children a life changing education, especially those experiencing disadvantage?

If you answered yes to these questions, our new Trust Leader post could be for you.

Working across The Howard Partnership Trust schools within your subject and phase specialism, our Trust Leaders will develop our unique THPT curriculum approaches. You will support teaching colleagues within your subject to bring out their best in the classroom. Your deep and infectious passion for your subject will inspire others and ensure that THPT schools deliver the best possible education for our children and young people.

You will spend 3 days a week teaching at one or more of our schools and have the other 2 days dedicated to developing curriculum, improving others’ teaching, and strengthening delivery of your subject across our schools.

(Part time and flexible working requests are always considered)

An expert teacher, you may be a current school middle or senior leader or a passionate subject specialist with other leadership experience from within or beyond schools.

You may aspire to school senior leadership including Headship or be dedicated to continuing to develop your subject at the highest levels.

Working within a team of other specialist Trust Leaders with the drive to raise standards across our Trust, you will be expertly line managed and developed to deliver in your key role.

All adults employed by the Trust have a responsibility for data protection and have a duty to observe and follow the principles of the GDPR Regulations.

The Howard Partnership Trust is an inclusive employer and welcomes applications from all individuals, regardless of gender, marital status, disability, race, age, or sexual orientation.

All applicants must be able to provide evidence of their Right to Work in the UK prior to commencement of employment. As part of our need to comply with UK immigration rules, you will be required to provide Home Office stipulated documentation prior to interview.

Early applications are encouraged. We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the closing date of this advertisement.

As well as verification of identity, we ask all successful candidates to undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance, we may also conduct an online search about any shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence to identify any matters that might relate directly to our legal duty to meet safeguarding duties, in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).

SAFEGUARDING AND FURTHER INFORMATION

The successful candidate will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

The Howard Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment

Due to the nature of this role, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. In making your application, it is essential you disclose whether you have any pending charges, convictions, bind-overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Therefore, applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being taken up; any failure to disclose such convictions will result in dismissal or disciplinary action. The fact that a pending charge, conviction, bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment.

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

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About The Howard Partnership Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-howard-partnership-trust

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