Teaching Improvement Lead
Star Academies
West Midlands
- New
- Salary:
- £75,331 to £83,081 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- Wednesday, 01 January 2025.
- Apply by:
- 30 September 2024
Job overview
Are you an experienced and successful secondary senior leader with a commitment to using evidence-informed approaches to secure quality teaching and outstanding outcomes for all pupils? Are you ready to play a key role to ensure excellent practice in a high-performing multi-academy trust?
About Star Central
Star Central, which is based at our head office in Blackburn, Lancashire, provides leadership, strategic direction and support to Star Academies, Star Institute and our schools.
The Star Central team includes experts from a range of professional backgrounds, who work together to provide an outstanding support service to the Star community. We support our schools to provide educational and operational excellence and to cultivate a strong Star community, with the aim of nurturing today’s young people and inspiring tomorrow’s leaders.
Who we’re looking for
We are looking for an experienced secondary school senior leader with the ability to drive improvement in teaching across a designated cluster of schools (Eden Girls’ School, Coventry, Eden Boys’ School, Birmingham, Eden Boys’ Leadership Academy, Birmingham East, and Starbank Secondary School).
You will play a crucial role in the trust-wide strategy to secure gains in pupil outcomes, developing leaders and securing systems to ensure we maximise the achievements of all of our young people.
The position requires an individual who can work both strategically and operationally, modelling best practice and embedding an instructional coaching approach. You will have a track record of supporting colleagues to improve their teaching practice and you will be proficient in providing actionable developmental feedback.
You will have:
- Credibility as an experienced and successful secondary school senior leader with a demonstrable track record of success, particularly with improving teaching.
- The ability to develop teachers’ practice through instructional coaching.
- The ability to work with school senior leaders and central leaders to develop pedagogy sustainably.
- A comprehensive knowledge of pedagogical techniques and evidence-informed practice.
- The ability to plan and deliver high-quality CPD.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Full commitment to our vision and values.
About Star Academies
Star Academies is a high-performing multi-academy trust that runs more than 30 primary and secondary schools. We are a values-based organisation that works to improve the life chances of young people in areas of social and economic deprivation to help them succeed at the highest levels of education, employment and the professions. Every single day you’ll be rewarded with the opportunity to shape a young person’s future - our STAR values embody what we believe is needed to succeed.
Professional development is key to our ongoing success, so we continually invest in our employees through our learning and development centre, Star Institute. With a wealth of training, mentoring and progression opportunities across a growing group of academies, joining our team of leading education experts could propel your career to the next level.
We can also offer you a range of rewards and benefits, including competitive salaries and pension schemes, generous holiday entitlements and healthcare cash plans.
Find out more
Please download the job description and person specification below for further information about the role. For an informal and confidential discussion about the role please contact Star Central by calling 0330 313 9800.
Key Dates
Closing Date: 30 September 2024 at midnight.
Interview Date: Week commencing: Monday, 07 October 2024.
Proposed Start Date: Wednesday, 01 January 2025.
Please Note: Interviews may take place in Blackburn or Birmingham
Application Process
To apply for this vacancy please use the 'Apply for job' link below. You should ensure your application form and supporting statement address all elements of the person specification. We will only consider candidates who meet the vast majority of the essential criteria outlined in the person specification.
Our Commitment
Star Academies is committed to safeguarding, safer recruitment and promoting the welfare of pupils. Our comprehensive recruitment and selection processes aim to discourage and screen out unsuitable applicants. Successful candidates are subject to rigorous pre-employment checks.
We are equally committed to eliminating discrimination and encouraging diversity. We aim for our workforce to be representative of society and that each employee feels respected and able to give their best. We are committed to providing equality and fairness in our recruitment and employment practices and not to discriminate on any grounds. We oppose all forms of unlawful and unfair discrimination.
Attached documents
About Star Academies
- Star Academies
- Shadsworth Road, Blackburn
- Lancashire
- BB1 2HT
- United Kingdom
Nurturing Today’s Young People I Inspiring Tomorrow’s Leaders
#WeAreStar
At Star, it is our mission to create outstanding schools that deliver the very best education to young people. We run a growing network of primary and secondary schools, with clusters in Lancashire, West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, the West Midlands and London.
Our culture is one of aspiration and high expectations. The whole of the Star community – pupils, parents, staff, the governors and partners - are united in a pursuit of excellence and a shared ambition to ensure every child has the opportunity to go as far as their talent and their hard work will allow.
We are a values-based organisation, driven by a sense of greater social purpose. Our vision of ‘nurturing today’s young people and inspiring tomorrow’s leaders’ is at the heart of our education model. We passionately believe that schools have a transformational impact on society and have seen the difference that a rounded, high quality educational experience can make to individuals and communities.
Please note that you are wholly responsible for fact checking in respect of the information provided by schools. Please also check for the latest visa and work permit requirements that may apply. Tes is not responsible for the content of advertisements or the policies adopted by advertising schools. Tes asks that all schools follow Tes' Fair Recruitment Policy.