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Head of Personal Development

Head of Personal Development

Aldridge Education

National

  • £56,000 - £68,000 per year
  • Quick apply
  • Expired
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
ASAP
Apply by:
8 December 2022

Job overview

Aldridge Education is a charitable trust whose entrepreneurial community schools help young people to reach their potential. We support our Principals and teachers in rapidly improving the quality of education on offer at primary, secondary and sixth-form levels in order to transform the life-chances of our students.

We are appointing a Head of Personal Development located within the Central Team of the Trust. The role will require monthly travel into London for Central Team meetings. The postholder’s specific role within the team is to grow and sustain excellent development provision for all students across the Trust. This will include our unique focus on enterprise and will also cover careers, enrichment and all aspects of personal development as documented in the Ofsted Handbook. Our definition of enterprise is ‘facilitating our students to know more and to make an impact with what they know’. As such, this role is a broad and wide-ranging one.

For further details about this position please find our recruitment pack attached.

Aldridge is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in our academies. In order to meet this responsibility, we follow a rigorous selection process. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Early applications are encouraged and we reserve the right to appoint prior to the closure date.

Overall purpose of the role

This post is located within the central team of the Trust. As part of this team, the postholder is expected to uphold the vision and mission of the trust, to support the CEO and colleagues in upholding the standards and plans of the trust, to support trust schools in demonstrating consistent excellence and to work towards the strategic goals set out in the Trust’s strategic plan.

 The postholder’s specific role within the team is to grow and sustain excellent personal development provision for all students across the Trust. This will include our unique focus on enterprise and will also cover careers, enrichment and all aspects of personal development as documented in the Ofsted Handbook. Our definition of enterprise is ‘facilitating our students to know more and to make an impact with what they know’. As such, this role is a broad and wide-ranging one.

 The postholder will work in partnership with school leaders and those responsible for these matters at a local level. The postholder will also be required to line manage staff the Trust may employ to form part of the personal development team and those who work for Virtual Aldridge, which is part of the postholder’s portfolio of responsibility.

 The postholder needs to be willing and able to travel to all Trust regions as required. There is a monthly central team meeting held in London which is a mandatory part of the role.


Safeguarding Statement:

Aldridge Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its students and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

Where the role for which you are applying involves engaging in regulated activity, it is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

A copy of Aldridge Education’s Child Protection policy is available on our website at www.aldridgeeducation.org

Following successful application, Aldridge Education will carry out the necessary prohibition checks for all teaching staff, as well as for all candidates undertaking regulated activity.

If you are shortlisted for the position you are applying for, you will be required to complete a Declaration giving details of any relevant criminal offences and other relevant information relating to our safeguarding duty. Further information will be provided on that form.

Any offer of employment will be made conditional upon a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and barred list check (where applicable to the role in question).

If you are shortlisted for the position you are applying for, Aldridge Education will undertake online searches (including social media) in accordance with KCSIE 2022.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

How to apply

Our aim is to ensure that we recruit the right person for the job. We will ensure that the selection process is fair and without discrimination for or against any candidate based on age, ethnicity, sex, marital status, or sexual orientation. The person specification sets out the criteria used to assess candidates through the selection process.

Applications:

Please apply via the Trust’s People HR Applicant Tracking System. The link can be found below and on our Aldridge Education Website. Please complete the application form and provide a covering letter that demonstrates how your experience and skills make you suitable for the position.

Shortlisting:

We assess all applications against the person specification criteria using the evidence you provide in your application. This is done by a panel of senior staff. We carefully check all applications for anomalies.

Candidates:

Candidates who best meet the person specification will be invited to interview. Interviews and associated assessment activities will be conducted on Thursday 15th December 2022. Please note that the interview may require attendance in London. Our successful candidate will join us as soon as possible.

References:

We request references for all candidates who are invited to interview. Please inform us if we should not contact your referees before interview. Your first referee should be your current or last employer.

Interview Process:

The interview will consist of assessment activities and a formal interview. These are designed to allow you to demonstrate your skills and abilities. You will be asked to bring proof of qualifications and identity on the day.

Final Selection:

Following the assessment activities and formal interview, we will use the person specification as a guide to select the most suitable candidate for our Trust. We will then telephone each candidate to inform them of the outcome. We will give brief feedback during this telephone conversation.

Offer of Employment:

We will make a verbal offer of employment by telephone within 48 hours of the interview and this will be confirmed in writing. Any offer is made subject to:

• References satisfactory to us

• A satisfactory DBS check

• Provision of proof of identity and qualifications

Probationary Period:

The post is subject to a six-month probationary period. On successful completion of probation, the post will become permanent.

APPLY

If you would like to apply for this role please complete the application form in full online via the Trust’s People HR Applicant Tracking System

Direct application URL : https://aldridgeeducation.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=a44ff50a-7d3f-43c7-8d32-93314894ffdc

Attached documents

About Aldridge Education

Aldridge Education

http://aldridgeeducation.org/

In joining an Aldridge school you’ll be joining a family who share a strong sense of values. We are passionate about attaining the highest standards of achievement and welfare for all of our students. We are unafraid to challenge conventional thinking and work collaboratively with all the schools in our family and are committed to securing for our students the opportunities, experiences and networks that will help them to succeed, be ‘life ready’, ‘work ready’ and independent. In addition to this we encourage sharing best practice and learning from others within our family of schools and beyond.

We are extremely proud that our schools have won numerous awards which showcase their achievement and facilities in recent years, just a few examples of which are:

• Portslade Aldridge Community Academy won Community School of the Year 2016, at the annual awards hosted by The Argus. In addition to this it emerged victorious by winning the STEMNET STEM Club Award 2015 and was awarded the Charity Achievement of the Year 2015 in The Argus Youth in Action Awards.

• Darwen Aldridge Community Academy was East Lancashire School of the Year 2015 and was named one eleven schools from eleven countries across Europe to have won the Entrepreneurial School of the Year Award 2015, a national and European recognition of the best schools championing entrepreneurship education. In November 2016 the Academy received a British Council International School Award recognising its “outstanding development of the international dimension in the curriculum”.

• Brighton and Portslade Aldridge Community Academies’ joint Digital Media Academy won the Academy Partnership Award 2016 at the National Education Business Awards.

• UTC@harbourside’s riverside campus won a Sussex Heritage Trust Award 2016 for the quality and excellence of its design.

Our developing national multi-academy trust is organised in regional clusters to ensure that our schools retain their individual community identities, and that we can attract and support new schools to strengthen the family. Each school has its own Local Governing Committee including parent and staff representatives to ensure the local community is engaged with the academy and that it is properly meeting its community’s needs.

Working together as a family of schools supported by a central team means that we can:

• Grow and retain our key leaders and teachers

• Provide greater opportunities for staff secondments and promotions

• Share curriculum development and specialist resources, such as subject leaders, across our schools locally and nationally

• Give our school leaders more time to focus on school improvement and the classroom by pooling and improving school support functions

What do our teachers see as the advantages of working in an Aldridge Education school?

“We have received excellent coaching support and advice from experienced individuals. Aldridge has provided support when capacity/time has not been available internally.”

“It’s about the expertise and support received, being part of a brand which has clear goals and vision, being part of an educational organisation which is so innovative and forward thinking.”

Sarah Dench relocated from Brighton to London after teaching at Brighton Aldridge Community Academy for five years and knew she wanted to stay working at an Aldridge school. In September 2015 she joining Kensington Aldridge Academy, you can read her story in full here.

If you are interested in becoming part of the Aldridge family then please take a look at our opportunities.

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