Assistant Director of School Improvement
SHARE Multi Academy Trust
Kirklees
- Expired
- Salary:
- Leadership Scale - Salary Negotiable
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 26 January 2022
Job overview
An exciting opportunity exists for an innovative Assistant Director of School Improvement to commence after the Easter break, to help improve standards of teaching, behaviour and leadership across the trust through effective leadership, mentoring, coaching and training. Under the direction of the Director of School Improvement, the successful candidate will devise and implement strategies for improving educational standards across the trust.
The Assistant Director will also work alongside the Director of the Teaching School Hub, to help coordinate our professional development programmes for teachers at all stages of their career.
The ideal candidate will:
- Be committed to helping all pupils achieve high standards;
- Be degree educated with QTS status;
- Have successful experience in a leadership role, with a track record of raising standards;
- Be able to improve educational standards;
- Have sound knowledge and understanding of the OFSTED framework and other measures for evaluating the performance of a school;
- Have a proven track record of monitoring and evaluating the impact of interventions and strategies to secure success;
- Understand the Teaching School Hub’s aims and objectives;
- Be able to devise professional development programmes that will raise standards of teaching.
SHARE Multi Academy Trust, which comprises of eight academies, all well located for commute from Leeds, Huddersfield and Wakefield. At the Trust we aim to:
- Equip our staff to deliver their best every day, our belief is that ‘Valuing People, Supporting Personal Best’ is the key;
- Encourage all our pupils to go beyond what they think they can achieve, to enjoy learning, helping them to lead healthy and happy lives;
- Ensure our staff are happy at work, taking pride in pupils’ progress and development;
- Never stop improving, developing and sharing our practice with others;
- Deliver training and guidance relevant to the job role so expectations are understood and staff feel motivated;
- Offer great benefits making us the employer of choice, including outstanding CPD, supportive line management and networking opportunities across the MAT to aid personal development.
Closing date: 9.00am on 26th January 2022.
The selection process will take place week commencing 7th February 2022.
Please contact Rebecca Hesmondalgh, Director of School Improvement on 01484 868777 ext 2060 for more information. Please note that CVs will not be accepted. The application pack must be downloaded from the jobs page of the SHARE MAT or Academy website.
SHARE MAT is committed to the Equalities Act 2010 and also to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children and young people, by adhering to the “Keeping Children Safe in Education” guidance. All staff and volunteers are regularly trained regarding our expectations in keeping our students safe. An enhanced DBS is required for every post.
SHARE MAT comprises of Lily Park Primary, Woodside Green Primary, Heaton Avenue Primary, Luck Lane Primary, Millbridge Primary, Royds Hall Academy, Shelley College, and Thornhill Community Academy. A central team provides operational support.
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About SHARE Multi Academy Trust
- SHARE Multi Academy Trust
- Huddersfield Road, Shelley, Huddersfield
- West Yorkshire
- HD8 8NL
- United Kingdom
The Trust officially started operating on 1st April 2015 and the members consist of:
- Heaton Avenue Primary Academy
- Lily Park Primary Academy
- Luck Lane Primary Academy
- Millbridge Primary Academy
- Woodside Green Primary Academy
- Royds Hall Academy
- Shelley College
- Thornhill Community Academy
- Whitcliffe Mount School
Our aims
To create a mutually supportive family of schools, sharing expertise and resources, to improve the quality of education for our children and young people.
Our values
Our central belief is “Valuing People, Supporting Personal Best” and we apply this to everybody in our organisation, staff and children alike. We try our best to support and encourage each other, we work hard at communicating effectively and we always try to achieve the very best we possibly can in the circumstances. We review our practice honestly and are always open to suggestions as to how we can improve further.
Professional development
Professional and career development is at the heart of what we do. In addition to our supportive appraisal systems, staff have access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including internal training sessions, external courses and sharing best practice across the trust.
We are extremely pleased to have the Calderdale and Kirklees Teaching School Hub based at Shelley College, delivering teacher training (ITT), the Early Career Framework (ECF) and the National Professional Qualifications.
Across our partner schools there are Subject Experts, Specialist Leaders of Education, Excellent Practitioners, trained Coaches and Mentors, as well as Outstanding Leaders offering support and training. We offer the opportunity of a career development programme that could take teachers on a journey from trainee to senior leader and beyond.
Location
We are in located in the Huddersfield/Kirklees district, with many of our schools in close proximity to a number of towns and cities including Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield. Due to the excellent road links, journey times are minimal, with many of our staff travelling from these areas on a daily basis.
Benefits
We believe in making the world a happier place to work. We do that by providing a package of flexible employee benefits, including:
• An attractive pension scheme for both Teaching and Support Staff.
• Care First – an employee assistance programme providing staff well-being support, including amongst other things: counselling, telephone helplines and stress management.
• Salary sacrifice benefit schemes - salary sacrifice enables staff to give up some of the cash value of their pay to receive other benefits which saves on tax and national insurance. The Trust currently runs the following salary sacrifice schemes:
- Cyclescheme – savings of up to 39% on the cost of a new bike.
- Techscheme – savings on the cost of desktop machines, laptops, Apple products, phones and software.
Recruitment process
Once you have completed and submitted your application form it will be reviewed by the shortlisting panel. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview via email, so please ensure you provide us with your email address and check it regularly after the closing date.
Referees will be contacted via email prior to interviews as references need to be returned to us before any offer of appointment can be made, for safer recruitment purposes. Please ensure you provide a contact email address for both of your referees.
And finally
Good luck in your application!
We look forward to hearing from you.
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