Reporting to: Chief Education Officer Salary: GST Salary Band K (£58,584 - £65,166 Annually, FTE) Teacher’s Pension Part-Time/Full-Time About this Role You will be ultimately responsible for English across a growing trust and will be a passionate advocate for delivering improvements in your field. You will know first-hand the importance of educational improvement and how to develop your deep subject expertise to deliver improved outcomes for our children. You will lead and direct a joined-up trust approach across English to deliver the highest levels of support for school leaders and teaching staff across our schools. Key responsibilities To lead in English across the Trust, helping schools to improve practice by providing guidance, support, and expertise in order to enhance teaching and learning outcomes. To assess schools’ strengths and weaknesses in your specialism, identifying areas for improvement, developing, and supporting with implementation of improvement plans, providing professional development, and training, monitoring and evaluating progress. To advise schools on evidence-based practice related to your specialism, complying with educational regulations and policies. To help schools enhance their capacity to provide high-quality education to all pupils, and to foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation in your specialist area. Areas of Responsibility: Operational/Strategic Leadership Create and implement a trust-wide development plan in your specialist area as part of the education team’s development plan in line with the trust’s stated vision, values and curriculum principles. Work with colleagues in the education team to develop a trust-wide curriculum policy, drawing on expert knowledge of suitable teaching and learning approaches, resources and schemes of work in your specialist area. Establish and oversee a trust-wide network in English; assess strengths and implement initiatives for schools to support each other and enhance practice. Assist in the identification, synthesis, and dissemination of evidence-based research to support outstanding subject specific teaching practice across the trust. Liaise with teaching hubs and other external agencies linked to your specialism, as appropriate. Support with the effective deployment of lead practitioners in undertaking improvement work across trust schools. Advise school leaders, within your specialist area, on how to support staff to maintain high expectations for all groups, ensuring all pupils have access to a rich curriculum. Assist subject leaders where required in ensuring that the curriculum is expertly planned and sequenced in your specialist area and provide a range of teaching strategies which supports its effective implementation. Provide feedback and actionable steps for curriculum improvements and ensure schools are supported to implement them. Quality Assurance To contribute to the process of monitoring and evaluation of your specialist area in line with agreed trust quality assurance procedures, including evaluation against quality standards and performance criteria. To seek and/or implement modification and improvement where required. Experience and Qualifications Qualified Teacher Status A degree and/or professional qualification relevant to the role and/or equivalent learning through professional experience. Demonstrable experience of senior leadership in education with whole school or cross-school impact. Evidence of working within a key education specialism at a senior level and ability to lead across a wider team. Interviews: w/c 10th February 25