Link Tutor - GORSE SCITT
The GORSE Academies Trust
Leeds
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Point L1 – L5 (0.6 - 0.8 FTE)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2024
- Apply by:
- 15 May 2024
Job overview
Required to start from September 2024
Link Tutor - GORSE SCITT
Leadership Point L1 – L5
Part time hours will be considered.
We are seeking to recruit a well-qualified, experienced and passionate colleague to the position of Link Tutor in GORSE SCITT. This new position aims to further strengthen our Outstanding School-Centred Initial Teacher Training provision.
The Link Tutor will play a crucial role in supporting trainee teachers throughout their training year at GORSE SCITT and, furthermore, ensuring that they are fully prepared to transition seamlessly to their first year of teaching. Ensuring our trainees have exceptional support in all aspects of the training course is paramount and this will be central to the role. It is essential that the Link Tutor has the ability to build and maintain strong relationships with trainees and partner schools and can communicate with clarity and precision. Where appropriate, the role of Link Tutor could also encompass subject lead responsibilities. The Link Tutor will be a key member of GORSE SCITT’s leadership team and will lead on whole SCITT initiatives.
What we offer you:
As a trust, we want to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. We are pleased to offer a generous benefits package to our team – as we work together to create a rewarding future for all including:
· Membership to a local government pension scheme.
· A commitment to continued investment in our professionals, supporting every member of staff throughout their career in the trust.
· Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential professional advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
· Discounts and online offers at major high street/online retailers.
· Specsavers scheme.
· £2k Cycle to work scheme.
About us:
Over the past ten years, GORSE SCITT has trained over 2000 trainee teachers across all subjects and in both Primary and Secondary phases. It is one of the largest teacher training centres in the country. In 2018 GORSE SCITT was recognised as an Outstanding provider by Ofsted, supplying the life-blood of teachers within schools across our region. Our training programme ensures that our trainees are exceptionally well-prepared for successful careers in teaching, making an impact on young people’s lives for the better, particularly for those whose lives are characterised by privation. We train around 200 trainee teachers each year from EYFS through to Post-16.
In February 2024, the Department for Education confirmed that The Morley Academy, supported by The GORSE Academies Trust more widely, had been successful in its application to become the designated Teaching School Hub for Leeds. Leeds Teaching School Hub being re-designated was a terrific vindication and recognition of the successful implementation of the ECF and NPQ programmes during the first three-year designation period. This reflects the deep-rooted achievements of both The Morley Academy as well as the wider excellence of The GORSE Academies Trust in all phases and areas of our work.
How to Apply:
If you’re as excited about this role as we are, an If you’re as excited about this opportunity as we are, a Job Description/Person Specification and application form is available to download from The GORSE Academies Trust website (www.tgat.org.uk/jobs), by email to recruitment@gorsescitt.org.uk or by telephone on 0113 487 1777. Should you require a further discussion in taking your application forward then please contact Helen Carr, Executive Director Designate of GORSE SCITT in the first instance.
Please note if you submit an electronic application, we will not require a hard copy. CVs are not accepted.
Closing date for applications: Wednesday 15 May 2024, 12 noon
Applications should be returned to: recruitment@gorsescitt.org.uk
Interviews will take place: Tuesday 21 May 2024
We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to full employment checks, including an enhanced DBS disclosure and barring service check. We promote diversity and aim to establish a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds.
Employment is conditional on confirmation of the right to work in the UK – either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa. If you do not have the right to work in the UK and the role does not meet eligibility for sponsorship, please consider carefully whether you meet the eligibility to apply for this position.
Attached documents
About The GORSE Academies Trust
- The GORSE Academies Trust
- Bruntcliffe Lane, Morley
- Leeds
- LS27 0LZ
- United Kingdom
GORSE has a well-known reputation for changing the deal for children and young adults who come from some of the most impoverished parts of the country. Our central mission is to ensure that we play a significant role in removing the stubborn link between poverty and academic underperformance. Consequently, our students and our professionals are in the vanguard of the national drive which seeks to prove that where teaching is excellent, leadership inspiring and behaviour standards exemplary all children excel regardless of background.
ALL CHILDREN EXCEL REGARDLESS OF BACKGROUND
Because of the trust’s reputation, we are also seeing the development of a new approach to academisation which is bringing already strong and successful schools forward to convert as new partners within GORSE. Those schools recognise the enormous advantage that comes from belonging to a network of excellence in both leadership and teaching, and we as a trust recognise that there is much to be gained when great organisations are brought together.
WE AS A TRUST RECOGNISE THAT THERE IS MUCH TO BE GAINED WHEN GREAT ORGANISATIONS ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER
Our final aim is to challenge the underperformance of other schools and academies through the excellence of our own work. In particular, we have sought to do this through taking advantage of the free schools programme and our trust will continue to look to develop new schools and to sponsor already existing schools in areas of significant educational underperformance. We believe that all great organisations have a role to play in agitating the system.
OUR SCHOOLS ARE HAPPY PLACES WHERE EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS THE IMPORTANCE OF WORKING HARD AND RECOGNISING THE SUCCESS OF OTHERS.
Our trust is also proud of its generosity in sharing ideas and approaches to the development of teaching and leadership with partners regionally and nationally. We are also humble, and take great enjoyment in learning from others including the very best practitioners nationally and internationally but also those struggling most in their work. This is because we believe that all schools contain areas of brilliance and it is for us as professionals to seek them out, understand their success and ensure that their magic is disseminated.
GORSE, of which GORSE SCITT is a central part, was awarded Teaching School Hub status in 2021. This saw the opening of Leeds Teaching School Hub in September of that year. We were delighted to learn in February 2024 that we have been designated to function as Leeds Teaching School Hub for a further 4 years. That renewed status now means that, as a trust, we have a great responsibility placed upon us to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. The most important single quality that we hope to nurture in all professionals is a passion and love for education and a determination to inspire and support young people, regardless of background.
You can find out more about us, our values and people at www.tgat.org.uk.
Sir John Townsley - Chief Executive Officer.
Leanne Griffiths - Deputy Chief Executive Officer.
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