Director of History
Falcon Education Academies Trust
North East and West Yorkshire (Leeds area)
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- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership 7 – 11
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 10 December 2020
Job overview
Are you looking for the next step in your career? Do you have a passion for History and changing students’ lives?
Falcon Education Academies Trust are seeking to appoint a dedicated and highly skilled Director of History to join our team from April 2021, or sooner if possible. You will be responsible for working with a number of heads of departments across two or three different academies and supporting History academies in partner trusts.
At this key time in the Trust’s development, we require an ambitious, determined and personable leader to secure the highest possible outcomes for our young people, staff, families, schools and the wider community. Through strong leadership and the ability to motivate others, you will harness the key strengths of colleagues, and lead rapid and sustained improvement in History departments.
This post would be an ideal opportunity for an outstanding Head of Department or Advanced Skills Teacher to maintain close links with classroom practice whilst leading group-wide transformational change. Experience of leading rapid and sustainable improvement in a History department is essential.
If you would like a conversation about this post then please call Chris Mitchell, Director of Education at Falcon Academies Education Trust on 07432 619621.
Falcon Education Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All appointments will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS disclosure.
For further information and to apply for this position please visit our website at https://falcontrust.co.uk
How to apply:
You can click Apply now to apply online. (Please also submit completed Equality and Diversity form).
Or
Download and complete an Application Form and an Equality and Diversity Monitoring form which can be downloaded here or found on our website at https://www.falcontrust.co.uk/our-recruitment
Closing date: Your application should be submitted to c.westbury-knowles@falcontrust.co.uk by no later than 12noon Thursday 10th December 2020.
Interview date: Interviews are to be held w/c 14th December.
Additional Support:
If you have any queries, concerns or require support with the completion of your application due to a disability, please contact Jonathan Thelwell (supporting recruitment consultant) on jonathan@gtjobs.co.uk who will be very happy to help.
Thank you for your interest in Falcon Education Academies Trust.
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About Falcon Education Academies Trust
- Falcon Education Academies Trust
- Pennington Lane, Oulton, Leeds
- LS26 8EX
- United Kingdom
Background:
Falcon Education Academies Trust was established as an academy trust in 2019, initially to pilot a new concept of “the turn-around trust”. Its aim was to take on and “turn-around” schools and academies with a complex range of challenges, in the then two RSC areas of Lancashire and West Yorkshire, and the North of England.
Unlike “standard operating trusts”, where schools join a forever family of academies, the primary objective of Falcon, is to provide support for a defined period of time in which to enable sufficient improvement, before then moving the school on to another trust.
Our purpose is to secure immediate, sustainable improvement in our academies, drawing upon the expertise of our trustees and senior leaders, working in conjunction with partner trusts and individual experts in their field. All of our partners have proven track records in improving schools in very challenging circumstances and are carefully selected according to the unique needs of the school
Since opening, the pilot has been extended nationally, to cover all RSC areas and Falcon continues to focus on finding the best solutions for those projects it is asked to assist with.
Falcon Education Academies Trust is a Department for Education (DfE) approved sponsor multi-academy trust. Due to our focus on supporting in challenging circumstances, our academies will either be Ofsted Inadequate maintained schools that have been issued with an Academy Order by the Secretary of State or may be existing academies that the DfE believe would benefit from being part of our Trust.
We will continue to work closely with the DfE National Schools Commissioner and Regional Schools Commissioners to identify such schools and academies.
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