Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly over 1000+ reviews have an exciting Locum opportunity available for an experienced Senior School Improvement Manager to work in Kettering, Northamptonshire.
Pay Rate: £500 per day
The role:
Lead and manage school improvement within Learning, Skills and Education, ensuring all schools in the county are effective and delivering a high quality experience for all learners; challenge, intervene and monitor where schools are causing concern in order to improve outcomes for learners
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensure delivery of a range of school improvement and intervention services as detailed in the LSE Service Development Plan and primary legislation to deliver continuing improvement in outcomes in all schools.
- Work as part of the school effectiveness team to challenge and support maintained schools, ensuring school-to-school support plans are in place where required. Share good practice, co-ordinate, broker and facilitate school-to-school support.
- Maintain effective communications with allocated schools acting as the first point of contact for the Head Teacher for School Improvement issues and signposting Head Teachers to other appropriate services such as Safeguarding, finance, HR, legal, and Education Inclusion.
- Work across NCC teams and other agencies to ensure that improvement planning and the work of school improvement colleagues is aligned.
- Ensure that school level planning informs the development of an overall county/area plan for school improvement such that the County Council is fully appraised of the quality of education in each of its schools.
- Advise the HOSSE, other officers and where appropriate members, on the needs of schools to enable sustainable school improvement.
- Advise the HOSSE on the need for formal school intervention where appropriate and work with the HOSSE to exercise those powers of intervention.
- Co-ordinate, monitor and evaluate the impact of the work of school based colleagues to support school improvement across the county. Monitor, evaluate and, where appropriate, challenge performance on a regular basis, according to school categorisation and as triggers occur.
Applicant Requirements:
- Qualifications: Recognised teaching qualification
- Experience: Proven extensive and effective senior management experience in a school and/or LA. Teaching experience in at least one key stage, preferably two
- Compliance: Right to work in the UK previous references, and an up-to-date DBS
Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced candidates who meet these requirements for this role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work.
