Job Details:
Job Reference: HCC620508
Salary Range: £66,724 - £70,009 per annum (Soulbury 19-22 plus up to 3 SPA), plus Home Working Allowance
Work Location: Home based with support from Winchester office
Hours per week: 37
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 21 April 2025
Interview Date: 28 April 2025
The Role:
Share in our ambition for achieving a consistently high-quality education for all our children and young people.
In this role you'll join a strong county-wide team of Inspectors and Advisers offering professional support, challenging and intellectual stimulus to a diverse community of schools who have high expectations of our service. As a Leadership and Learning Partner for a group of secondary schools in Hampshire, you'll enhance their journey to excellence and promote effective partnership working to secure higher standards. You will also work across the improvement team and with schools in supporting their effective curriculum delivery, encouraging collaborative practice and mutual challenge. You will be encouraged to lead thinking in several areas, responding to both national and local agendas, and work proactively.
A recent successful track record in senior leadership [preferably deputy level or headship] that demonstrates your capacity to contribute to the ongoing evolution of excellent learning and pedagogy is essential, alongside the ability to secure leaders’ confidence in your advice. You'll understand what supports and develops the capacity of school leaders to embed ambition and drive improvement in their schools. You'll relish the opportunity to make a real difference to the achievement and well-being of children and young people in Hampshire schools.
As the lead for a designated subject area/ cross curricular theme, you will support the development of teaching, the curriculum and standards across Hampshire and beyond. You will also support schools with their wider pastoral matters. Working proactively, you will lead the thinking for the local authority, responding to both national and local agendas. You have the ability to communicate clearly the principles of a high-quality pastoral education, to include a specific curriculum area, establishing credibility with teachers and school leaders across primary, secondary and special schools; and be able to work alongside schools to help them develop their provision.
The post is home based but with good support from the Winchester office. You will be required to travel to various locations within Hampshire (and the Isle of Wight or other local authority), and it is essential that you have a current drivers’ licence and access to a reliable vehicle on a regular basis.
Additional Information:
Secondary Inspector/Adviser Job Description and Person Specification
Vetting Requirements:
This post is subject to a criminal records check. As such, and as per safer recruitment requirements, please note we will take up references prior to interview.
Contact Details for an Informal Discussion:
Jean Thorpe, County Education Manager on jean.thorpe@hants.gov.uk
Hampshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
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