Trust National Director of Primary Education

Location: SET Head Office, Kidsgrove/SET Primary Schools

Start date: 25th April 2023 (or earlier if possible)

Contract Type: Full-time, permanent

Salary: Competitive

We are keen to appoint a dynamic, innovative, and outstanding leader to the position of Trust National Director of Primary Education within Shaw Education Trust. This role will suit an exceptional individual who has the skills, knowledge, and expertise to lead and support our primary schools to deliver awesome outcomes for pupils.

You will lead strategies which promote, maintain, and improve standards of education in all primary settings including leading sector curriculum and pedagogical innovation. You will work closely with primary Headteachers across the Trust, supporting and challenging them and their teams to deliver a world-class education for pupils and be responsible for tracking standards, triggering interventions, and celebrating their success.

The successful candidate will have a strong track record of school improvement and experience of leading a good/outstanding primary school. In addition, you will have high expectations for what all of our pupils can achieve, be ambitious for our staff and be able to demonstrate the values of the Shaw Education Trust through your leadership.

The Shaw Education Trust is a large family consisting of 27 Academies and 1 Independent Specialist College. Our schools cover all phases and all sectors; we are proud to be inclusive, and are ambitious for each and every one of our 11,000 learners. We are an innovative, aspirational, and motivated Trust, determined to affect positive outcomes for our communities. We have a SCITT and an Institute of Education within our partnership and these provide outstanding career development pathways for teaching and support colleagues. Our apprenticeship model is dynamic, fast paced and stage appropriate. Exceptional, high quality professional learning lies at the heart of our approach:

We regard it as a right, not a lottery, our academies are great places to work, our teams buzz with creativity, and focus on excellence by all and for all.

The role provides an exciting opportunity to work closely with our fantastic primary Headteachers and to join our outstanding Trust central team. You will have access to a wide-ranging support network to enable our colleagues and our schools to flourish. In addition, through our talent management programme, there are opportunities for training, development and qualification routes to enable you to be highly successful in this role.

Please review the job description and person specification for full details of the role.

Should you have any specific questions, then please do not hesitate to contact Kerry Inscker, Deputy CEO, on 07971 552391 or kerry.inscker@shaw-education.org.uk for further details.