Director of Human Resources
The GORSE Academies Trust
Leeds
- Expired
- Salary:
- £62,204 - £68,424 (pay award pending)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 9 June 2022
Job overview
Required to start: ASAP
Director of Human Resources
£62,204 - £68,424 (pay award pending)
Contract: 37 Hours Per Week, All Year Round
Subject to a 6-Month Probationary Period
We are seeking to appoint a Director of Human Resources who can demonstrate the ability to balance strategic thinking with practical execution. Someone who has significant leadership experience in driving results and who can provide operational direction and input into strategic business decisions. As the Director of Human Resources for The GORSE Academies Trust you will be a member of the central leadership team and will need to be comfortable working in a high – volume, fast-paced, rapidly changing environment. We believe this is an exciting opportunity for someone who shares our vision and has an excellent track record of relevant and wide-ranging HR experience, with the personal qualities necessary to influence our continuing drive for the highest quality service delivery.
It goes without saying that the process of appointing to this role is of great importance to all of us within the trust. We employ over 1,500 people and teach close to 11,000 children and young people. So, looking after the welfare, employment processes and professional development of our people is at the centre of what makes us a special place in which to work. Our Director of Human Resources oversees a key team and works in direct partnership with senior leaders across the trust, including the Chief Executive Officer, on all areas connected to professional development and welfare.
Should you wish to have an informal discussion about this role or to arrange to visit our trust then please do so through contacting the Chief Executive Officer’s Personal Assistant Christine Watson at christine.watson@tgat.org.uk.
An Application Pack (including Job Description and Person Specification) is available to download from The GORSE Academies Trust website www.tgat.org.uk/jobs, by email to recruitment@tgat.org.uk or by telephone on 0113 487 8888.
For further information or to arrange an informal visit or chat telephone Carole Smyth on 0113 4685971.
Please note if you submit an electronic application we will not require a hard copy. CV’s are not accepted.
Closing date for applications: Thursday 9th June 2022 (9am)
Interviews to take place: Wednesday 15th June 2022
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.
All staff are required to undertake mandatory Child Protection Training shortly after taking up post.
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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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