Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Great Oaks School
Southampton
- £59,000 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Salary:
- Negotiable depending on candidate experience and qualifications. Minimum starting salary £59,000.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Starting September 2023 or January 2024
- Apply by:
- 26 June 2023
Job overview
We are seeking an exceptional candidate for this new key leadership post in our multi-academy trust (Great Oaks School and Rosewood Free School). Our Chief Operating Officer will be part of a team supporting and enabling schools to improve the life chances of the children and families they serve. This is a great opportunity to be part of the Trust’s future growth and development.
This role will appeal to an ambitious and enthusiastic professional, motivated by the opportunity to impact positively on children’s outcomes trust wide. The COO will provide leadership and ensure compliance of all aspects of operations as well as contributing to the strategic direction of the Trust.
The COO will drive the development of a training centre for all trust staff and as an opportunity for income generation by promoting the training centre externally.
We are looking for a positive, forward-thinking Chief Operating Officer who is:
- An inspirational leader – leads with drive, commitment and enthusiasm
- Able to contribute to the strategic leadership of an organisation
- Able to ensure greater operational efficiencies and compliance
- A good project manager and team player
- An excellent communicator
We will provide the Chief Operating Officer with:
- A collaborative team and the opportunity to shape our vision and ethos and the processes to deliver them
- A supportive Trust Board
- CPD appropriate to their current and future needs to ensure success
- Local government pension scheme or Teacher’s Pension Scheme (if appropriate)
Applications are welcome from those within the sector and those from other sectors who have the desire and ability to adapt. If you think you have what it takes to develop a relatively small trust into a successful and responsive organisation run for the benefit of children, their families and staff, then we welcome your application.
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About Great Oaks School
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Great Oaks School is a 340 place secondary school for young people with a range of complex learning difficulties including autism and speech and language difficulties. Our pupils come from all over Southampton as well as many from Hampshire. We are part of the Specialist Schools' Trust, currently comprising Great Oaks and Rosewood Schools.
At Great Oaks we follow a broad and balanced curriculum with a particular emphasis on developing communication, literacy, numeracy and personal and social skills. In addition we have a focus on creativity and the arts which have proved an extremely successful way of engaging our young people and helping to promote their self esteem and self confidence. We have introduced the Great Oaks Guarantee which lists 13 extra-curricular opportunities that we aim to give all pupils during their time at the School
At Great Oaks we strongly believe in partnership working – we work closely with the other special schools in Southampton, with local secondary schools with a range of multi-agencies and with parents. Pupils at Great Oaks benefit from an experienced and dedicated staff team who have skills in working in a range of curriculum areas as well an understanding and empathy for the needs of young people with learning difficulties. We benefit many different specialist facilities include sensory rooms, IT suites, sports hall and theatre.
We currently have 3 sites, Our largest site on Vermont Close Southampton, are supplemented by a site for our older pupils and college students on Green Lane and a personalised learning provision on Bugle Street
We aim to put the needs of the young people at our school at the heart of everything that we do and through promoting a growth mindset help to ensure that all pupils irrespective of their learning difficulties or past educational attainment can make real progress and be enabled to succeed.
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