Executive Head
Race Leys Junior School
North Warwickshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Dependent on experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- April 2018
- Apply by:
- 7 February 2018
Job overview
Ready for the next challenge?
If you’re a very successful Leader and have the taste for wider influence, become the Executive Head of two primary schools in North Warwickshire and join our Trust-wide Education Team. We promise plenty of challenge and great learning. Both primary schools have their very distinctive identities and work with others across the Trust as well as retaining good links with local networks. Griffin Schools Trust employs whole people to educate whole children so your approach to leadership must go way beyond the very highest standards of achievement for all children. If you are ready for this opportunity, then we would love to meet you and we know you will love visiting our schools.
The Opportunity
We are seeking to appoint an Executive Head for two of the Trust’s primary schools in North Warwickshire: Race Leys Junior (210 pupils 2 Form Entry) and Park Lane (355 pupils Rec-Yr3 2 Form Entry and Yr4-6 1 Form Entry). The schools are 5 miles apart and are part of our North Warwickshire hub with Nicholas Chamberlaine School, a comprehensive secondary school. The hub is governed by a single local governing board and shares finance and operations managers. Primary and secondary Heads in our Trust are of equal status. Both primary schools have their very distinctive identities and work with others across the Trust as well as retaining good links with local Warwickshire networks.
For a proven and exceptional leader, there is the opportunity to join the Trust’s wider Education Team with a regional role beyond the two schools. The precise nature of the role will be negotiated with a suitable candidate.
The Role
Both schools were in Special Measures when they joined GST and rapidly improved to be judged ‘Good’. The Executive Head will grow leadership capacity at all levels in both primary schools and speed their progress through Ofsted Outstanding to GST great.
The ability to work adventurously with other GST Heads and the HQ team to establish a real legacy for the communities the two schools serve.
The Person
Inspirational school leaders come in all shapes and sizes and from every kind of personal background. There is no template and no recipe.
The only stipulations we make are that you:
· understand that great schools are founded on broad provision and the belief that all children can achieve at least national norms
· have led a school which is outstanding or improved a school by at least two Ofsted grades
· are highly articulate in speech and in writing
· are very numerate and able to engage with performance data and financial strategy and management
· can demonstrate that you know how to work in teams as well as leading them effectively
Websites:
Park Lane Primary School and Nursery http://www.parklane-gst.org/
Race Leys Junior School http://www.raceleys-gst.org/
Griffin Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of all children and expects staff to share this commitment.
Attached documents
About Race Leys Junior School
- Race Leys Junior School
- Barton Road, Bedworth
- Warwickshire
- CV12 8HG
- United Kingdom
About the Griffin Schools Trust
The Griffin Schools Trust (GST) is a family of ten primary and two secondary schools in the Midlands, London and South East. We have a strong track record in making schools much better for children and their families and for the staff who work with us. Our single most important mission is to provide the conditions in which children discover who they are and then go on confidently to take their places in society, making a contribution to the world through the use of their talents. We will never prepare children to know their places.
When schools decide to join us they bring their histories to us and together we turn them into traditions reflecting the Trust’s mission and values whilst preserving and extending the each school’s individuality. We offer a rich curriculum and an unusual range of enrichment and extension clubs and activities. We also have shared traditions so that children form every school feel part of the same family. Every summer term we hold the Griffin Arts Festival. In the spring we have Founders Day and the Science Symposium and in the autumn students compete in the Griffin Science Symposium. All these festivals are linked in an annual theme schools’ four houses compete for a Trust cup which is awarded to the house colour which has accumulated most points from all Trust events. All staff, including the CEO, belong to a house.
Great GST schools have nothing institutional about them and great GST staff are thoughtfully recruited for their excellent knowledge and their broad interests. They are developed by Heads as well as the research and training opportunities offered across the Trust to add their individual magic to the mix. All our schools practice open and distributed leadership and place a high value on creativity as well as growing great talent pipelines to ensure that there are plenty of opportunities for promotion within and beyond the school.
Look at our website and click through to some of the schools as well as the one to which you are applying. We are frequently told that colleagues have found their professional home at GST. Is it yours? We look forward to hearing from you.
Anne Powell
Chief Executive Officer
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