Director of Primary Education
Mossbourne Federation
Hackney
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive (dependent on experience)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2020
- Apply by:
- 21 October 2019
Job overview
Director of Primary Education
Salary – Competitive (dependent on experience)
Start date – January 2020
Work pattern – Full time
Contract – Permanent
Closing date – 22 October 2019
Interview dates – TBC
Background
The Director of Primary Education will have oversight of strategic Leadership and Management, defining and delivering the vision and objectives of the Federation. They will provide first class leadership and embed the ethos of aspiration, success and high standards across each school. They will ensure that each school has a robust school improvement plan and support is in place and evaluated. They will create and support a collaborative, aspirational and innovative culture of learning across the Federation, creating a climate for learning and a system of monitoring and intervention that enables all students to thrive.
The four main challenges for this newly created role will be to:
- Actively lead and manage on the expansion of the primary school cluster
- Produce, share and implement a strategic vision for the primary schools
- Lead, manage and support MPA to produce and maintain outstanding academic outcomes and to
- Support MRA to continue to produce outstanding academic outcomes as the school increases in pupil numbers
What we are looking for:
- A candidate with superb communication, organisation and leadership skills to join the senior leadership team
- Experience of having led and managed a high-performing team
- A sound commercial acumen and commitment to evidence-led performance management and intervention
- Manage budgets in accordance with delegations from the governing body, ensuring effective financial control at all levels
- Ability to motivate, develop and hold your team to deliver results
- Ability to build and maintain close and effective partnerships with other schools engaging in similar challenges, an engaged Governing Body, a committed and ambitious group of parents and a wide group of stakeholders
- Excellent teacher who is able to work with students of all abilities and enable them to achieve exceptional results
- An unbreakable commitment to the highest levels of education for all students
- Raise aspirations, expectations and achievement of all students regardless of ability
- Commitment to the safeguarding of students
- Enthusiastic, flexible and friendly approach
- Professional manner at all times
- A degree in an appropriate discipline and Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
If you are passionate about innovative education, have a commitment to personal excellence and are ready for a new challenge, we welcome your application. For further information about the role, please refer to the recruitment pack.
To apply for this position, please follow the link to our website and complete an application form at www.mossbourne.org/vacancies
NB: Applications may be considered whilst the post is being advertised. Mossbourne Federation reserves the right to close adverts earlier than the stated deadline.
“The Mossbourne Federation is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Applicants will be required to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.”
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About Mossbourne Federation
- Mossbourne Federation
- 100 Downs Park Road, Hackney, London
- E5 8JY
- United Kingdom
The Mossbourne Federation
The Mossbourne Federation is a thriving network of Primary, Secondary and Sixth Form academies in the Southeast, providing children aged 4 – 18 with an outstanding education. We deliver the highest quality of teaching & learning across a broad curriculum, underpinned by high expectations of every student and by our Federation values of Excellence, No Excuses, & Unity. Our staff strive towards a common goal: being the best we can be, ensuring every student, every teacher and every member of staff fulfils their potential. We value continuous improvement, are always learning, and always looking for a better way to do things. We are a supportive family that shares experiences, knowledge, and ideas in an environment that welcomes input and challenge.
Headquartered within the metropolitan borough of Hackney, all Mossbourne Federation academies are near London Overground stations or mainline stations, facilitating a no-fuss commute for colleagues living in and around the London area. London’s fashionable ‘East and West Ends’, are a short distance away.
The Mossbourne Federation is actively seeking to increase the proportion of our workforce who come from diverse backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people of Black, Asian, and other minority ethnic descent. Injustice, discrimination, and intolerance go against the core tenets of the Mossbourne ethos. We actively reject discrimination in our academies through continuous review of our working policies & practices across the federation, including at board level. We are committed to developing and supporting inclusivity, diversity, and anti-racism in every facet of what we do.
The Mossbourne Ethos
The Mossbourne Federation is the realisation of Sir Clive Bourne’s dream to provide the children of Hackney with an outstanding education. Over the past twenty years, the Federation has nurtured Sir Clive’s dream by fostering kind, courteous, hard-working, and well-rounded learners by providing an outstanding education based on the core values of ‘Excellence’, ‘No Excuses’ and ‘Unity’. Through upholding these core values, Mossbourne schools are without exception, exceptional.
The Federation’s calm working atmosphere creates well-rounded individuals who excel in the arts, on the sporting field and academically. All learners, regardless of ability, benefit from the innovative and enlightened approaches to teaching and learning within The Mossbourne Federation.
Working for The Mossbourne Federation
Working for a Mossbourne Federation Academy means being part of a community of exceptional practitioners. Colleagues are warm, welcoming, and supportive of each other. As one of the country’s leading federations, of course expectations of staff are high. In return, we engage with, and support our workforce, with great benefits and by creating an inspirational working environment which nurtures the development of personal and professional excellence.
Benefits
Federation staff are rewarded through the comprehensive package of benefits listed in our applicant pack, including:
- Benenden health membership, to support health and wellbeing, fully paid by the Federation
- Discounted gym membership with the ability to spread membership costs
- Free staff fitness classes
- Cycle to work and season ticket loan schemes
- Free lunches (Terms & Conditions apply)
- Discounts at local restaurants
- Saturday pay programme
- Special leave scheme
- First rate professional development and career opportunities
- Staff appreciation awards and events
- The Mossbourne Allowance (Terms & Conditions apply)
See all our current Primary, Secondary & 6th Form vacancies here: https://www.mossbourne.org/vacancies/
You can follow us on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mossbourne-federation/
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