Senior School Improvement Adviser
Wakefield Council
Wakefield
- Expired
- Salary:
- Soulbury 21-24 (+3 SPA) | £58,727 – £65,282
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 20 March 2019
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to drive educational improvement for Children and Young People in Wakefield.
Playing a key role in the School Improvement team, our new Senior Advisers will support and challenge leaders across the district, ensuring we achieve the very best for all learners and focus on our mission of all schools being good and beyond.
If you are ready for an opportunity to use your skills to influence at a strategic level – making a difference for thousands of young people – we would love to hear from you.
We are looking for talented school improvement experts. But as well as offering knowledge and experience of how schools can improve at pace, it’s also important that you have the credibility to engage with stakeholders and partners across the school system.
You’ll need to forge effective professional relationships at all levels – from schools and multi academy trusts to governors, teachers and other agencies.
Working predominantly with Wakefield’s primary schools, you’ll also have responsibility for a number of other service areas. We’ll agree this with you, depending on interest and experience, but your additional management responsibilities could include Early Years, assessment, music or SACRE.
It is also important that you share our wider vision for the service and can work with our teams to improve and enhance our traded offer – ensuring we continue to deliver high quality services that schools value and trust.
To be successful, it’s likely you will have led school improvement in a relevant context – either as a school leader or perhaps in an advisory role with a local authority, academy trust or other school-led system.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a committed team who are already delivering great results. You’ll find talented colleagues ready to support you every step of the way.
We look forward to hearing from you.
For a confidential conversation about the role, contact our recruitment advisers at Propelo on 01904 567818. Or visit https://wakefield.our-careers.co.uk
Closing date for applications is 12 noon 20th March 2019.
About Wakefield Council
- Wakefield Council
- Town Hall, Wood Street
- Wakefield
- WF1 2EL
- United Kingdom
Living and Working in Wakefield
Wakefield city is a historic seat of regional government in Yorkshire and for two centuries provided the county headquarters of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Today the city retains its strong tradition of public service employment with the headquarters of Wakefield Metropolitan District Council, the Yorkshire and Humber regional assembly and the West Yorkshire Police located at its heart within the civic quarter. ??Public sector presence extends to the health service including the headquarters of the West Yorkshire Ambulance Service. ??Location?Wakefield's location at the heart of England and at the centre of the UK's communications network offers unsurpassed transport links, providing fast connections by road, rail, and air. ??At the intersection between the M1 and M62 and with the A1 at its eastern boundary, the district is well placed to access other regional centres such as Leeds, Sheffield and York.
Ease of commuting extends beyond the region with Wakefield Westgate, the city's mainline station situated on the high speed east coast mainline, offering excellent connections to key UK destinations. Direct half-hourly services operate to London throughout the day with the quickest journey taking under 2 hours. Sheffield, York, Manchester, Liverpool, and Newcastle are also within easy reach. ??Several airports offering domestic and international flights are nearby, including Leeds Bradford, Robin Hood Airport, Manchester and East Midlands. Leeds Bradford, Manchester and East Midlands all provide direct flights to London and Brussels. ??The area?The district has emerged from over a century of reliance on coal mining to become a thriving manufacturing, shopping and distribution centre, taking full advantage of its place at the heart of the region's transport network. ?Wakefield district covers some 350 square kilometres and is home to 315,000 people in a diverse range of city, urban and rural communities and an amalgam of what were previously 14 different local authorities.??The North West includes Horbury, Ossett, Wrenthorpe, Stanley and Altofts, while Normanton, Castleford, Pontefract, Knottingley, Featherstone and a host of smaller settlements make up the five towns. In the south east, there are the towns of Hemsworth, South Kirkby and South Elmsall, as well as other communities. ??Some 70 per cent of the rural communities of the district is designated as green belt. Dotted about the rolling countryside are villages like Middlestown, Crigglestone, Crofton, Woolley and Ackworth. ?
The average cost of a home is £144,266
Detached £234,661
Semi-detached £136,729
Terraced £110,000
Flat £119,359
Leisure & Sport:
The district boasts several nationally recognised cultural and leisure facilities including the National Coal Mining Museum for England and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and is birthplace to two giants of modern sculpture; Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. A new sculpture gallery is planned for the city's Waterfront, the Hepworth, to house original works by local sculptor, Barbara Hepworth. ??The city centre is vibrant with pavement cafés, restaurants, bars and an exciting nightlife enhancing its cosmopolitan feel. A multi-million pound regeneration project will see a significant transformation of the city's retail core at the northern gateway into the city, introducing a department store and new retail outlets to complement the existing Ridings shopping centre situated in the heart of the city. ??Europe's largest shopping village, the Junction 32 Outlet Village (formerly Freeport) at Castleford, offers a wide selection of shops including many designer names. Adjoining Junction 32 is the new Xscape development, housing one of the largest indoor real snow ski slopes in Europe. The complex, incorporating an ice climbing wall, multiplex cinema, bowling alley, shops and restaurants under one roof, attracts visitors from all over the country. ??The city and surrounding areas are a stronghold of sport including; rugby league where Castleford Tigers and Wakefield Trinity Wildcats share a long tradition with teams like Featherstone Rovers; and horse racing - the longest continuous flat circular course can be found at Pontefract. ??There is an abundance of walking and cycle paths throughout the district with country parks, nature trails, waterways and lakes all waiting to be explored. The lake at Pugneys Country Park is a haven for sailing enthusiasts and canoeists and is within a mile of the city centre.
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