Trust Director of Learning
Longdendale High School
Hyde, Cheshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Scale L10-14
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Required for September 2019 (or earlier where possible)
- Apply by:
- 15 October 2018
Job overview
Trust Director of Learning
Leadership Scale L10-14
Required for September 2019 (or earlier where possible)
This is a genuinely exciting opportunity to join the AspirePlus Educational Trust. Required from September 2019, we are looking to appoint Trust level Director(s) of Learning. The role represents an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and committed leader to further develop their career by taking on a key strategic leadership responsibility in our academy trust. The successful applicant will have responsibility for the strategic leadership and management of a specified subject area across both member schools. We would particularly welcome applications from History or MFL specialists.
As an inspirational leader and teacher, your key responsibility will be to provide strategic leadership that ensures school based leaders implement consistent high quality provision in specified subject areas which secures striking impact on standards and outcomes for students in Trust schools. You will lead the development of a highly committed team of professionals who are passionate about raising standards and who are determined to further develop teaching and improve learning outcomes for all students. This role will allow you to develop your own career in an innovative, challenging yet highly supportive educational trust. We will invest in you and provide you with the best resourcing and a personal programme of professional development.
Further information on the AspirePlus Educational Trust can be found on our website: www.aspireplustrust.org.uk. For more information on both schools have a look at our websites: www.raynerstephens.org.uk and www.longdendalehighschool.org.uk. Please see the job description and person specification for more detail about the role.
Application Process
Further information and an application pack can be obtained by contacting our Hays Recruitment Partner, Daniel Burgess, by calling 0161 228 7300 during office hours or by emailing daniel.burgess@hays.com at any time, including evenings and weekends.
Closing date for applications: Monday 22nd October 2018 12.00pm
Interviews: Wednesday/Thursday 24th/25th October
Attached documents
About Longdendale High School
- Longdendale High School
- Spring Street, Hollingworth, Hyde
- Cheshire
- SK14 8LW
- United Kingdom
We are a small, friendly 11 - 16, co-educational, fully comprehensive community school, serving the local community surrounding Hollingworth in Tameside. Our ambition is to be a world-class school and we have a growing reputation for excellence. Staff and students have firmly subscribed to our ASPRIE core values in which we strive for Achievement, Success, Professionalism, Integrity, Respect and Endeavour in all that we do.
We are oversubscribed in Year 7 with all of our year groups rapidly expanding and we expect this growth to continue. Most of our students go on to study at Ashton Sixth Form College with others attending Tameside, Clarendon Sixth Form College, Stockport or Manchester College.
We were last inspected in November 2015 and we were delighted with the ‘good’ judgment which was well deserved recognition for the progress we have made as a school. The outstanding grade, awarded for leadership and management, also demonstrated the talent amongst our staff to further accelerate the school in all areas.
This is a very exciting time in our development as we take on a system leadership role in becoming a founder member of the AspirePlus Educational Trust. We are looking to ensure that the vision of improvement for Longdendale is accelerated through the appointment of forward-thinking and enthusiastic staff who will be able to work in partnership with others and be committed to working hard to achieve success.
As a founder member of the AspirePlus Educational Trust, Longdendale’s leaders have a strong vision for ongoing improvement and a track record of success. We will invest in you and provide you with the best resourcing and a personal programme of professional development and improvement. All these opportunities will allow you to develop your own career in a challenging, innovative and highly supportive secondary environment.
Headteacher
Andrea Jones
Executive Headteacher
Matthew Bowler
Values and Vision
Longdendale uses the mission statement “we endeavour to achieve and aspire to be successful”. It is a school that is currently enjoying some of the highest results of its history. Due to its smaller size, it is able to value each of its students as an individual, a task that is important for ensuring their skills and talents are emphasised and utilised in a way that can benefit them as well as the school itself.
Ofsted
“Since the previous inspection there have been marked improvements in teaching, behaviour and the overall quality of education that pupils receive. This is because leadership, including governance, is outstanding. The headteacher has been successful in uniting most members of the school community behind him and there is a shared aspiration for continued improvement. Swift action taken by school leaders since the previous inspection has resulted in the gap between the achievement of disadvantaged pupils and that of others in the school narrowing quickly.”
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