TRUST NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF PRIMARY EDUCATION
The Shaw Education Trust, Stoke-On-Trent, ST7 4DLThis job expired on 5 December 2022
Job start date
25 April 2023
Closing date
5 December 2022 at 9am
Date listed
8 November 2022
Job details
Job role
- Head of year or phase
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Early years, Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time: full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Competitive
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are keen to appoint a dynamic, innovative, and outstanding leader to the position of Trust National Director of Primary Education within Shaw Education Trust. This role will suit an exceptional individual who has the skills, knowledge, and expertise to lead and support our primary schools to deliver awesome outcomes for pupils.
You will lead strategies which promote, maintain, and improve standards of education in all primary settings including leading sector curriculum and pedagogical innovation. You will work closely with primary Headteachers across the Trust, supporting and challenging them and their teams to deliver a world-class education for pupils and be responsible for tracking standards, triggering interventions, and celebrating their success.
The successful candidate will have a strong track record of school improvement and experience of leading a good/outstanding primary school. In addition, you will have high expectations for what all of our pupils can achieve, be ambitious for our staff and be able to demonstrate the values of the Shaw Education Trust through your leadership.
The role provides an exciting opportunity to work closely with our fantastic primary Headteachers and to join our outstanding Trust central team. You will have access to a wide-ranging support network to enable our colleagues and our schools to flourish. In addition, through our talent management programme, there are opportunities for training, development and qualification routes to enable you to be highly successful in this role.
What the school offers its staff
Our vision is for a society in which everyone has the opportunity to excel, gain employment and sustain independence; a society where aspiration is the norm and high achievement the only acceptable standard. Barriers to success will be removed by high quality educational and training experiences. Our mission We believe every young person can achieve great things, whatever their ability and whatever their background. We will facilitate excellence by all and for all: with no exceptions. We will deliver ‘best in class’ tailored learning to ensure that every young person attending one of our academies has the opportunity and support required to achieve their potential. High quality intervention and targeted leadership development will be the foundation stone of our Trust. We will accelerate improvement in all our academies from their individual starting points. Schools facing challenge will be intensively supported to ‘get to good’ within two years. Leaders will be celebrated, encouraged to excel, think innovatively and be incredible. We pledge an unswerving commitment to improve the life chances of all the young people in our academies. We will focus on bridging the gap between school and the outside world to give young people the best chances to progress to high quality further/higher education, employment or training. We will create a self-sustaining family of schools who will support each other’s success and promote consistently high standards across the Trust.
Commitment to safeguarding
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is defined for the purposes of this guidance as:
Protecting children from maltreatment
Preventing impairment of children’s mental and physical health or development
Ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care
Taking action to enable all children to have the best outcomes
Shaw Education Trust recognises that in order to keep pupils safe, leaders must create where pupils and staff are able to speak freely and share any concerns they have.
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About The Shaw Education Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- natalie.turner@shaw-education.org.uk
We are in the business of people; we focus on harnessing the power of people to affect positive change for our children and young adults.
We enable children, leaders, teachers and support teams, to create their individual best futures. We are bespoke: one size fits one.
Our approach derives from a mission that education should be an exciting space, buzzing with vibrancy, dynamism and unlimited potential.
Innovation and entrepreneurialism fuel our passion, enabling creativity and mandating agility. We love a pirate!
Our talented people are everything; we focus heavily on workforce development, talent acceleration, and healthy wellbeing. By offering high quality training, apprenticeships, and research opportunities we ensure all our colleagues are well motivated, committed, highly valued, and incredibly driven, skilled professionals.
We are proud of our work family: they create magic for our young people!
Our learning community is enhanced by the mix of academies (primary, secondary and specialist) within our Trust; all with an equal voice. This allows us to create a team of collaborative folk with a wide range of valuable experience and knowledge.
We value and enjoy the privilege of working with our children and young adults; they are precious cargo. We are proud to be ‘exactly like nothing else.’
Our Core Values are:
To Be Pupil And People Centred
To Act With Integrity
To be Innovative
To Be Best In Class
To Be Accountable
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