Trust Leader - Geography (Secondary Phase)
Thomas Knyvett College, Ashford, Surrey, TW15 3DU7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2026
Closing date
14 May 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
27 April 2026
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Geography
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £61,582.00 - £67,796.00 Annually (FTE) L7-L11
Trust Leader - Geography (Secondary 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, Geography, our Trust Leader 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 3/4 days a week teaching at one or more of our schools and have the other 1/2 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.
As a Partnership School, we are committed to professional development through our extensive CPD programme and ensure a healthy work/life balance with effective PPA allocation.
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.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
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.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Thomas Knyvett College
- School type
- Academies, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 687 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Thomas Knyvett College website
Thomas Knyvett College is a welcoming, creative and community-based school where through our values of being proud, respectful, open-minded, unified and determined we set high standards which enable our students to develop into confident and responsible members of the global community. We have a real focus on collegiality and staff wellbeing.
Students at Thomas Knyvett College enjoy, and are reflective about, their learning. Teachers develop and explore the passions for their subjects. We offer a broad and rich curriculum which allows our students to thrive whatever their interests, and we also provide a wealth of enrichment opportunities beyond the curriculum. Ours is a school where students are celebrated and supported as individuals to have the very best experiences.
We are proud to ‘Bring out the Best’ in young people of all abilities and aptitudes, and therefore increase their life chances for their future success and fulfilment.
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