Director of School Improvement
The Mercian Trust
Walsall
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- L14- L18 Scale (£56,579- £62,426)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Required for January 2020
- Apply by:
- 21 October 2019
Job overview
Our Mission is to provide the best education and life chances for the children and young people of Walsall.
The Mercian Trust is a group of schools working together under a common banner and an over-arching structure of governance but retaining their autonomy as custodians of their unique heritage, distinct identity and successful operation. Pupils in the Mercian Trust are part of a family of schools forming an educational community.
At present, the Trust is made up of 6 schools: Aldridge School, Queen Mary’s High School, Queen Mary’s Grammar School, Shire Oak Academy, The Ladder School and Walsall Studio School. More information about these schools can be found on their individual school websites.
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, dynamic and dedicated leader, who shares the same values and ethos as the Trust, to work within our central MAT team.
They will be credible with other teachers and leaders and able to offer strategic and specific advice to teachers and leaders.
The Director of School Improvement will work alongside our MAT central team and leadership and department teams in our schools to increase capacity and improve outcomes for pupils.
The successful candidate will be an experienced, effective middle or senior leader with a strong teaching and learning background and a demonstrable record of securing improvement.
The successful candidate will have a passion for teaching and want to retain that close connection with working with teachers and pupils in classrooms alongside their leadership responsibilities.
Informal conversations are welcomed and encouraged.
Please feel free to contact Lin Koo, Executive PA to the CEO on 01922 211388 Ext. 1211
Applications should be made using the TES application form.
Please submit a letter no longer than 2 sides of A4 outlining the following:
• How your recent and relevant experience has prepared you for this post
• How the impact of your work to date is an appropriate foundation for you to undertake this role
Please email to Lin.Koo@the.merciantrust.org
The Mercian Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and all applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. Safeguarding and Safer Recruitment Policies can be found on our website.
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About The Mercian Trust
It was in Mercia that St Chad established an association of small monasteries which fostered unity through bonds of kinship. We intend, a thousand years later, to adopt the same spirit in our approach to a Multi-Academy Trust. Pupils in the Mercian Trust will be part of a family of schools forming an educational community. We are convinced that we are stronger together. The Trust is already shaping the educational landscape in exciting ways and every pupil in the Trust will be part of that story.
The Mercian Trust brings together different schools catering for a wide range of individual needs into one Multi-Academy Trust in order to offer the broadest and best education to all pupils regardless of their socio-economic, cultural or ethnic background. Leveraging the strengths of the participating schools, Mercian Trust pupils will be able to access the advantages and opportunities that each school brings – in teaching, leadership, breadth of curriculum, facilities, enrichment activities and community engagement.
Our Mission: To provide the best education and life chances for the children and young people of Walsall.
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