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Difference Leaders Programme: North West, Yorkshire & Humber

Difference Leaders Programme: North West, Yorkshire & Humber

The Difference

North West, Yorkshire & Humber

Salary:
Matched to current salary (as a minimum)
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2020

Job overview

The Difference Leaders Programme – 2020 cohort. Now recruiting across the North West and Yorkshire & Humber as well as London and the South East.

Click here for full information and to apply now.

Have you got:

  • The drive for a challenge
  • A commitment to social justice
  • The skill to lead
  • And the hunger to learn

Then you should be a Difference Leader.

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?  

The Difference Leaders Programme promises career progression, a network of like-minded peers and 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.  Applications now open for a Sept 2020 start. Only 10 places available across the North West and Yorkshire & Humber. There is NO closing date but applications are assessed on a rolling basis  and will close when full. Apply now to avoid disappointment!

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 leadership position in an alternative provision school for two years;
  • Two-years of evidence-led training in improving pupil learning, safeguarding and wellbeing via: a residential, away-day training sessions; twilight seminars; and group supervision with a psychologist;
  • Bespoke leadership development via in-school coaching;
  • A National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership (NPQSL);
  • 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. 

Where will I work?  With its pioneer 2019 cohort, The Difference has placed its first 10 Difference Leaders in some of the best schools for excluded pupils in the country, bringing mainstream expertise into AP schools and pushing best practice with the most vulnerable students.  For our 2020 cohort, we are looking for 20 exceptional teachers to do the same across Yorkshire & Humber, the North West, Greater London, and the South East.

Where will this take me? The Difference is already partnered with some of the biggest mainstream multi-academy trusts in the country - including Ark Schools, United Learning Trust, Ormiston Academies and Oasis Learning Community - who are keen to hire Difference Leaders after the two-year programme to help them cut exclusion.

Currently only 4.3% 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?

Click here for more information and to apply now

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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