What skills and experience we're looking for
Our trust seeks a senior educational leader with a strong understanding of school improvement and safeguarding. They should also have experience of impactful school improvement both in individual settings and across groups of schools as well as experience of national safeguarding regulations and how to ensure these are in place across a large trust.You will also be supported by our experienced Executive and Education Teams and will work in partnership with our Directors, Strategic Leads, Heads of School, and the Diocese, to develop our trust and ensure that both the MAT as a whole and its individual schools consistently achieve excellent educational outcomes for all pupils.
What the school offers its staff
Aspire Academy Trust is seeking a strategic thinker who has a demonstrable and successful track record of inspirational, dynamic and impactful senior educational leadership.As an Education Director, you will champion collaborative working and continual professional development for all schools within the trust. Aspire encapsulates this commitment, living by its strapline “working together, inspiring excellence” in each of its 37 primary academies – of which three have Church of England Foundation - 22 nurseries and 2 outdoor education centres, located across Cornwall.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.