Trust School Improvement & Performance Lead (Covering Devon and Cornwall)
Wave Multi Academy Trust, St Austell, PL25 4FD10 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 January 2027
Closing date
16 October 2026 at 9am
Date listed
6 October 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full time equivalent salary
- £77,676 - £87,664
Pay scale
- L16 - L21
What skills and experience we're looking for
This is an exciting opportunity to join Wave at a pivotal stage in our development and growth. As part of our highly experienced and highly effective School Development Team, you will help shape the future of a Trust committed to transforming the lives of children and young people who have often faced significant barriers to success.
At Wave, our values are rooted in the belief that every child deserves opportunity, ambition, belonging and the chance to thrive. Through our specialist and alternative provision academies, we support some of the most vulnerable pupils across the South West, helping them to re-engage with learning, overcome challenges and achieve positive futures.
As Trust School Improvement and Performance Lead, you will work alongside our Trust Inclusion Lead and Trust Safeguarding, Behaviour and Attendance Lead, and our committed team of School Leaders to ensure that every academy benefits from strong support, constructive challenge and high expectations. You will lead the Trust's approach to performance intelligence and school improvement, helping leaders use evidence effectively, strengthen the quality of education and secure improved outcomes for pupils.
This is a unique opportunity for an experienced and values-driven leader who is passionate about educational excellence, inclusion and social justice. You will have the chance to influence practice across the Trust, work directly with academy leaders, lead improvement initiatives and provide operational leadership support where it is most needed.
If you share our commitment to improving life chances and believe that every child can succeed with the right support, encouragement and ambition, we would love to hear from you.
For a full list of duties, please see the job description below.
Wave Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 2020 & 2023). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.
We may close this vacancy early as we review applications as they are received, to ensure you are considered for this role please do not wait for the deadline to submit your application.
What the school offers its staff
Health & Wellbeing
Pension
Training & Development
Employee Assistance Programme
Cycle to Work Scheme
Free Parking
Further information about the job
Wave are an established and successful Multi Academy Trust, comprising of Alternative Provision Academies (APAs), Medical Academies (including Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s child and adolescent mental health unit ‘Sowenna’) and a Special Academy.
We provide education for vulnerable pupils aged 4 – 19 across Devon and Cornwall. The Trust has a national reputation for the delivery of outstanding pupil outcomes including enabling pupils to access the most appropriate education setting and transition to employment, training and higher or further education. The Trust educates over 1000 pupils and employs over 350 members of staff.
We Aim To
- Provide a balanced and broad curriculum that promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.
- Give access to the National Curriculum; provide opportunities for external accreditation, and, for those pupils with specific learning difficulties, effective and personalised programmes.
- Ensure all pupils are supported to develop positive attitudes towards themselves and others. Promoting emotional well-being and self-esteem; helping our pupils to recognise their potential and work positively within their community.
- We will respect all pupils and encourage them to become active participants in their own learning, develop confidence, independence, self-esteem and express their needs and desires.
- Seek effective and positive working relationships with pupils’ families, schools and other agencies.
- Enable effective outcomes for our pupils.
Commitment to safeguarding
Wave is dedicated to the safeguarding of children and Safer Recruitment Procedures will be followed. The position requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and online checks may be carried out.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
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About Wave Multi Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- recruitment@waveedu.org
Wave Multi Academy Trust (MAT) comprises of nine regional alternative provision academies, two medical academies in Devon and Cornwall and a special academy in Devon for pupils with social communication and interaction needs.
We provide support to enable pupils to reintegrate into mainstream or special schools; or in the last four terms of compulsory education, integration into the world of work or further education.
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