Trust Strategic Subject Lead for Post 16
Outwood Grange Academies Trust, Wakefield, WF1 2PF5 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
21 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
15 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Standard Academy Daily Hours
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L18-L22
What skills and experience we're looking for
Skills Required:
- Strategic Leadership & Planning
- Ability to lead the development and implementation of Trust-wide Post 16 curriculum and teacher development strategies.
- Capacity to define and evaluate outstanding Post 16 teaching and assessment practices.
- Curriculum Design & Assessment
- Expertise in curriculum and assessment development for Post 16 education.
- Ability to ensure intellectual coherence and progression in curricula.
- Teacher Development & Mentoring
- Ability to lead professional development for Post 16 teachers, including support for ITE (Initial Teacher Education) and Early Career Teachers.
- Experience in designing and implementing mentoring practices.
- Data Analysis & Quality Assurance
- Competence in evaluating the quality and impact of teaching and curriculum initiatives.
- Skilled in quality assurance systems and performance reporting.
- Communication & Collaboration
- Strong interpersonal skills to work effectively with principals, leaders, and external stakeholders.
- Able to maintain clear communication with executive leadership.
- Innovation & Initiative
- Capacity to launch and drive new initiatives and innovative practices in Post 16 provision.
- Ability to support classroom research and evidence-informed teaching strategies.
- Knowledge of Careers & Progression Pathways
- Understanding of Post 18 pathways (university, apprenticeship, employment).
- Ability to liaise with Careers Leads and support NEET prevention strategies.
- Safeguarding & Compliance
- Strong understanding of safeguarding policies and responsibilities.
- Knowledge of data protection and safer recruitment procedures.
Experience Required:
- Leadership Experience
- Experience of working at a senior leadership level in Post 16 education or across multiple school sites.
- Curriculum & Teaching Experience
- Proven track record of delivering and improving Post 16 curricula.
- Experience in raising standards in Post 16 teaching and learning.
- Cross-School/Trust Collaboration
- Experience working across multiple schools or within a Trust setting.
- Experience in identifying and sharing best practices across institutions.
- Professional Development Design
- Experience designing and implementing CPD programmes for teachers.
- Experience supporting staff from ITE through to leadership.
- Project and Change Management
- Experience leading school improvement or curriculum innovation projects.
- Ability to manage change across multiple teams or departments.
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Experience working with a range of stakeholders including local authorities, further education providers, and employers.
What the school offers its staff
Outwood Grange Academies Trust is a well-established and highly regarded multi-academy trust operating across the North of England. By joining our Trust, you will be part of an organisation that is committed to delivering educational excellence and placing students at the heart of everything we do.
This role offers a unique opportunity to make a strategic impact across 42 schools, shaping the future of Post 16 education and improving outcomes for thousands of students. You will be supported by our dedicated School Improvement Team an expert group of professionals with specialisms in leadership, curriculum, SEND, attendance, and community engagement who work collaboratively across the Trust to ensure high standards and effective support.
We offer a collaborative and ambitious culture, where values such as integrity, aspiration, and inclusion underpin all aspects of our work. Our staff benefit from access to high-quality professional development through the Outwood Institute of Education, which includes opportunities to lead training and mentoring initiatives for teachers at all stages of their careers.
You will be part of a visionary and forward-thinking organisation, currently renewing its strategic direction with the clear ambition that every school becomes a beacon of sustainable excellence. As part of this journey, you will be given the autonomy to lead innovation while receiving strong support from our Executive Team.
At Outwood, you will be empowered to lead, develop, and inspire. You will play a key role in transforming lives, particularly for our most vulnerable students, and contribute to a Trust where every child feels valued, supported, and able to thrive.
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
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
About Outwood Grange Academies Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- e.nursiah@outwood.com
We are an award-winning multi-academy education trust with passion, purpose and people at our heart. We manage 41 transformative primary, junior, secondary and Post 16 schools up and down the North of England, from Redcar to Nottinghamshire, each celebrating very different identities but driven by a shared vision. Each academy is individually shaped around the community and children it serves.
Arranging a visit to Outwood Grange Academies Trust
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email e.nursiah@outwood.com.
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