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The Difference Leaders Programme 2023 Cohort

The Difference Leaders Programme 2023 Cohort

The Difference

London

Salary:
Salary matched to current salary, up to a maximum of £60K
Job type:
Full Time, Part Time, Fixed Term
Apply by:
23 January 2023

Job overview

The Difference Leaders Programme 2023

Applications for our latest cohort of Difference Leaders are now open! We will be accepting applications from teachers and senior leaders across London.

Apply today! Be sure not to miss out - applications close on 23rd January. 

Have you got:

• The drive for a challenge

• A commitment to social justice

• The skill to lead

• And the hunger to learn?

Then you could be a Difference Leader in 2023.

The Difference is looking for the country’s most committed, creative, and capable teachers ready to take on a new challenge as a senior leader in a pupil referral unit or alternative provision school. Could this be you?

If you’re interested - join us for an online information evening. Sign up here

The Difference Leaders Programme provides sector-leading professional development, the opportunity for career progression, a network of inclusively minded peers and upskills participants to have an impact on the children who need you most. An intensive two-year leadership development course is matched with a senior leadership post in a Good+ school for excluded pupils.

Difference Leaders are:

• Driven by the mission to reduce school exclusion and improve life outcomes for the most vulnerable learners

• Optimistic about what children can achieve in the face of significant adversity

• Great teachers with experience of leading the practice of colleagues (in middle or senior leadership)

• Systems-thinkers, who enjoy learning and thinking creatively about how to change school systems, cultures, and practice

Difference Leaders get:

• Senior, or associate senior leadership position in an alternative provision school for two years

• Two years of evidence-led training in improving pupil learning, safeguarding, and wellbeing via residential, away-day training sessions, twilight seminars, and group supervision with a psychologist

• Bespoke leadership development via in-school coaching

• Network of like-minded school leaders across the country, passionate about re-thinking education for the most vulnerable

• Onwards career support for Difference Leaders to return to mainstream as senior leaders of Inclusion (See the progression of our leaders here)

Currently, only 12% of excluded children get a pass in English and maths. Half are unemployed straight after school and far too many enter the criminal justice system. Could you be part of changing this story?

Apply here! 

The Difference is committed to fair and diverse recruitment and building diverse cohorts

Read more about the story of the Difference in our annual Impact Report

About The Difference

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The Difference is a new charity whose mission is to bring the best in education to the children who need it most. 

The Difference Leadership Programme is an intensive two year placement programme. We find exceptional educators and equip them with inclusion expertise through 290 hours of teacher development. Alongside this training, Difference Leaders spend two years as a senior leader in an AP school – immersed in a setting that supports the highest needs students. 

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