Deputy Director of Education (Primary)

The Learning Partnership is looking to appoint a highly qualified and experienced school leader as our new Deputy Director of Education (Primary).

The Learning Partnership is a multi-academy trust with fifteen schools across Cheshire and Staffordshire.

Our family of schools consists of nine Primary Schools, four Secondary Schools, a Studio School and a University Technical College. We provide education to over 6500 students and employ over 1100 staff.

The trust believes in allowing each school to retain its distinctive identity and ethos whilst also being able to support the ambition of individual schools, helping children to reach their potential and benefit from the greater resources that partnership within the trust brings.

Our vision

Our vision is to transform education, delivering teaching and learning which fully equips all our young people, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, to become positive, engaged, successful members of society.

We are searching for a Deputy Director of Education (Primary) who will be instrumental in driving this vision and the development of our diverse group of schools. to achieve our strategic aims, alongside our Director of Education. The successful candidate will be focussed on delivering high standards across the organisation and our strategic aims, providing strong and decisive leadership for primary school improvement across the trust.

The Deputy Director of Education (Primary) will be a member of the Central Leadership team and will be responsible for the overall provision of the quality of primary education across the Trust, under the direction of the Director of Education. This role is supported centrally by a team of school improvement colleagues.

The Deputy Director of Education (Primary) will be responsible for ensuring that trust trust primary schools harness the very best practice from internal specialists and through external collaboration and partnership. They will provide expert advice and guidance to school leaders to empower them to make effective, strategic decisions in their settings that positively impact the lives of our students and the communities we serve.

The Deputy Director of Education (Primary) will:

• Have overall responsibility for reporting to the Director of Education on the strategy, improvement initiatives, and performance of each primary school.
• With the Director of Education, be accountable for the academic performance of the academies and holding the leadership teams to account.
• Work with each primary school to ensure they are prepared for regulatory inspections and monitoring visits.
• In conjunction with each Principal, ensure improvement strategies are mapped out, actioned and followed up.
• Support the Director of Education in securing appropriate assessment and target setting systems including direct support to primary Principals on self-evaluation, ensuring it is rooted in secure data.

Start Date: September 2024

The closing date for application is: Tuesday 28th May 2024 at 9am.

Interviews will be held: Wednesday 29th May 2024

The Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All staff appointments are subject to satisfactory references and enhanced checks with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS), and appropriate online searches in line with the requirements in Keeping Children Safe in Education (2024).

The Learning Partnership is committed to the promotion of equality of opportunity and the elimination of discrimination; all applicants should note that they will be considered on the basis of suitability regardless of disability, gender, race, religion, age, sexual orientation and marital status or any other discrimination which is unfair or unreasonable. We particularly welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities because we would like to increase the representation of these groups at The Learning Partnership. We want to do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater outcomes for children. We are proud to be an employer that holds Disability Committed and Menopause Friendly status. 

The Trust is ‘happy to talk flexible working’. Flexible working increases workplace diversity by making roles accessible to those with caring responsibilities (primarily women), disabled staff, and both older and younger workers.