Director of Education (Primary)
The Tenax Schools Trust
Kent and Sussex
- £101,533 - £111,976 per year
- Salary:
- L30 - L34, teachers' terms and conditions.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- April or September 2025
- Apply by:
- 18 November 2024
Job overview
Full Time (0.8 FTE considered)
Are you looking for a role which will genuinely have a positive impact on the educational outcomes and thus the life chances of 1000s of primary pupils?
We are looking for an exceptional individual to join our ambitious trust as Director of Education. You will believe that ‘how’ we do what we do matters. You will have the expertise to be a force for improvement, the personal attributes to secure buy-in from others and a deep rooted belief that collaboration is the cornerstone of strong trusts.
About our Trust
Tenax Schools Trust (TST) is at a truly exciting inflection point. We have all of the ingredients to be an exceptional Trust. Our new CEO is vastly experienced and relentlessly ambitious. We have a thriving Teaching School Hub that serves schools across Kent and East Sussex. We have an exemplary secondary school and seven strong primary schools. Our Board has many new, passionate and committed trustees. Our mission is to deepen the collaborations across our TST family and grow the trust. We serve the Diocese of Rochester and Chichester. Both Dioceses are committed to all of their schools joining academies at some point in time. We also wish to increase the number of community schools in our family, where they share our vision and values.
About You
You will share our vision of achieving excellence together and providing a transformative education for every child; informed and guided by our underlying inclusive Christian values and beliefs as a Church of England trust.
You will understand how to develop school improvement at scale. You will value and provide expert support to individual schools, whilst developing highly collaborative trust wide approaches to school improvement.
Your knowledge of effective curriculum design and pedagogy will be first class and evidence informed.
You will be committed to tackling educational disadvantage, upholding and securing ambitious and high educational standards for all
You will understand how to help children make exceptional progress including promoting further support for those with additional educational needs and disabilities so that all can flourish
You will also carry a humility and warmth that engages the leaders you manage and support.
You will need to see opportunities, where others see challenges and see blank canvasses as potential, rather than daunting.
About the Role
You will be a leader to other leaders.
You will have a high level of autonomy to develop school improvement at TST. You will build, implement and constantly evaluate our approach to school development.
You will be an integral part of the trust senior team. You will get great exposure to almost all functions of a MAT and genuinely contribute to the whole trust.
You will have flexibility in your approach to work, working between the central office and schools. We operate a hybrid working model which includes the opportunity to work from home.
Next Steps
· Please visit https://jobs.tenaxschoolstrust.co.uk/doe for more information and to access an application pack
· Every trust is unique. It is strongly advised that you schedule a virtual meeting or call with our new CEO. We fully value the fact that you are selecting us, as much as we are recruiting you, and thus as much time as is practicable will be given to prospective applicants.
The Tenax Schools Trust is:
i) Committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to vetting checks and a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
ii) Committed to creating inclusive teams that represent a breadth of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, and that can provide role models to all students in our communities. If you think you meet the essential criteria for one of our roles, we would love to hear from you regardless of sex, age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. Where possible, we seek to facilitate flexible working opportunities.
iii) Committed to ensuring that all applicants can participate fully and with equal access to the selection process. Any candidate identifying as having a disability, or diagnosed with a neurodivergent condition is encouraged to contact the Trust to discuss any reasonable adjustments that would enable them to participate fully and with equal access to the selection process.
About The Tenax Schools Trust
Tenax Schools Trust (TST) is a Church of England multi-academy trust located in West Kent and East Sussex, led by Mark Cole, CEO.
As a Church of England trust, we are legally and spiritually one body and one family of schools in which all are known, valued and loved. This commits us to providing a transformative education where we work together to ensure every child has the opportunity to excel inside and outside the classroom. We are ambitious for all - pupils and staff, and work collaboratively to open consistently the doors of opportunity.
We are a strong family of schools with ambitious plans to grow, and are proud to serve the dioceses of Rochester and Chichester. This family of schools currently comprises of seven primary schools in full membership (one of which is a free school), and one in associate membership, alongside a large secondary school, Bennett Memorial Diocesan School.
Bennett Memorial Diocesan School is a Department for Education designated Teaching School Hub working with more than five hundred schools across Kent and neighbouring areas. This allows us to provide high quality professional development, and helps to secure talent pipelines from the very start of a teacher's career.
In partnership with Ambition Institute, our Teaching School Hub provides the Early Career Framework and the full suite of National Professional Qualifications (NPQs), for hundreds of teachers in the region. We also have our own initial teacher training provider, Teach Kent & Sussex, which trains teachers in partnership with primary and secondary schools both within the Trust and beyond.
We believe that our values of courage, compassion and collaboration enable us to focus on the 'how'. How we do what we do, how we interact, how we lead and how we engage.
Inspired by our Christian values and beliefs, we believe there is no limit to what can be accomplished for every child.
We are committed to creating inclusive teams that represent a breadth of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, and that can provide role models to all students in our communities. If you think you meet the essential criteria for one of our roles, we would love to hear from you regardless of sex, age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. Where possible, we seek to facilitate flexible working opportunities.
Tenax Schools Trust is:
Committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to vetting checks and a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Committed to creating inclusive teams that represent a breadth of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, and that can provide role models to all students in our communities. If you think you meet the essential criteria for one of our roles, we would love to hear from you regardless of sex, age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, religion or sexuality. Where possible, we seek to facilitate flexible working opportunities.
Committed to ensuring that all applicants can participate fully and with equal access to the selection process. Any candidate identifying as having a disability, or diagnosed with a neurodivergent condition is encouraged to contact the Trust to discuss any reasonable adjustments that would enable them to participate fully and with equal access to the selection process.
The name ‘Tenax’ is the Latin word for ‘tenacious’ or ‘steadfast’. We are steadfast in our belief in the value of Church of England education, and the consequent commitment to high achievement and personal growth for all young people.
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