Senior Subject Director - Humanities

Senior Subject Director - Humanities

Full Time, Permanent

L14-18 (£68,586 to £75,674 per annum)

Required from January 2025

We are seeking to appoint an inspirational Senior Humanities Subject Director to work within the Education Improvement Team, taking responsibility for leading the Trust Humanities Team of established Subject Directors and Lead Teachers. You will be a proven outstanding teacher who is passionate about their subject. 

Working alongside our team of other core experienced Senior Subject Directors and their teams, you will be directly deployed in at least two or three of our academies during the academic year, playing a leading role in raising standards and outcomes through the delivery of your excellent practice. In addition, you will support your Humanities colleagues and Trust faculty leaders through coaching and CPD.

You will be an inspirational teacher, with a track record of excellent results and will have experience in embedding good practice and building capacity. We require a colleague who is committed to high standards of learning and student progress, who can help all our students to reach their potential. Experience as a Head of Faculty/Leader who can demonstrate impact is imperative for this post. It is also highly desirable for the successful candidate to have examiner experience and knowledge and understanding of the current Ofsted inspection process. Experience of leading History would also be welcomed. 

If you are excited and motivated by this opportunity to join us, and feel you can meet the challenge and be part of our successful, hard-working, flexible and dynamic team, then we would be delighted to receive your application.

Please submit your application by no later than Wednesday 9th October 2024. Our application deadline can end earlier where we have received a positive response, so if you are keen to apply, please add your profile to this vacancy as soon as possible.

Interviews will be held on or before the 14th October 2024.

Spencer Academies Trust is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2800 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence.

We currently have 17 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and one primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers, and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country, and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.

Mission

Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.

Vision

Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.

We Believe:  

• All children have a right to a quality education regardless of background or ability, and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development.
• Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a ‘family’ and are open to a true sense of partnership.
• We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for quality and outcomes; we achieve more.

Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff.

If you would like to discuss the role, or have any queries, please contact Elle Turner, Trust HR Advisor, at eturner@spencertrust.org.uk in the first instance.

The Spencer Academies Trust Safer recruitment policy requires applications for this post must be submitted through our recruitment portal. CV’s cannot be accepted.

Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to interview and close the advert ahead of the closing date.

How to Apply

Applications are submitted through our Every Candidate Portal. If you are a new user to our portal, you can click on ‘Register’ to complete your candidate profile. If you already have a candidate profile with us, click on ‘Sign In’.  Both of these routes allow you to feed your candidate information into any of our vacancies and view the status of your application. If you want to apply directly for this role and not save your data for any future vacancies, you can click on the ‘Apply Now’ button at the bottom of this page.  

We have added a video to help guide you through our portal, please visit https://vimeo.com/737845492/c1b8e43656  

Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children and young people. Therefore, we expect everyone to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre- employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records with Barred List Check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the completion of Level 2 Safeguarding training. It is an offence to apply for the role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children (where the role involves this type of regulated activity). 

The Trust and its member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education provision. We aim to ensure that students, parents, governors, employees, contractors, partners, clients and other stakeholders within the Trust community are treated fairly, and with dignity and respect regardless of Protected Characteristics. 

Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer