Senior School Improvement Manager

Job Title: Senior School Improvement Manager

Location: Hybrid - Very flexible, office attendance required as and when for meetings at NN17 1QG

Rate of Pay: Negotiable per day rate PAYE or Umbrella

Working Hours: Full Time - 37 hours

Type: Temporary Role until end of April 2025

Opus People Solutions are working with North Northamptonshire Council to recruit for a Senior School Improvement Manager.

Overall purpose of the post

1. Lead and manage school improvement within Learning, Skills and Education, ensuring all schools in the county are effective and delivering a high quality experience for all learners; challenge, intervene and monitor where schools are causing concern in order to improve outcomes for learners

2. Ensure appropriate governance arrangements (constitution) are in place, including where schools federate, in order that governing bodies are able to challenge and support the school leadership to bring about and secure improvement in standards.

3. Lead the design of appropriate school improvement strategies and monitor the impact/effectiveness of strategies on the outcomes for learners, brokering in support as required and ensuring a clear service focus on excellence, setting out clear and ambitious priorities for raising standards in all schools, in accordance with NCC strategy.

4. Champion the needs and rights of those who are vulnerable or with complex needs, ensuring the voices of children and young people are heard and responded to.

Principal responsibilities

1.Ensure delivery of a range of school improvement and intervention services as detailed in the LSE Service Development Plan and primary legislation to deliver continuing improvement in outcomes in all schools.

2. Work as part of the school effectiveness team to challenge and support maintained schools, ensuring school-to-school support plans are in place where required. Share good practice, co-ordinate, broker and facilitate school-to-school support.
3. Maintain effective communications with allocated schools acting as the first point of contact for the Head Teacher for School Improvement issues and signposting Head Teachers to other appropriate services such as Safeguarding, finance, HR, legal, and Education Inclusion.

4.Develop a customised and coherent approach as the strategic lead within the School Effectiveness Team for one or more of the following:

• Assessment and Moderation
• Attendance and Inclusion
• Data systems and Analysis of Pupil Outcomes
• Disadvantaged pupils and Pupil Premium Strategy
• Early Years and Primary Education
• Improvement Partnerships such as with partnership head teachers, teaching schools and MATs
• Induction
• Leadership and governance
• New Head Teacher Induction
• Newly Qualified Teachers
• Safeguarding
• Secondary and Post 16 Education
• SEND and Vulnerable groups
• Subject Specific Specialism o Reading o Writing o Mathematics o Phonics
• Teaching and Learning

5. Work across NCC teams and other agencies to ensure that improvement planning and the work of school improvement colleagues is aligned.

6. Ensure that school level planning informs the development of an overall county/area plan for school improvement such that the County Council is fully appraised of the quality of education in each of its schools.

7. Advise the HOSSE, other officers and where appropriate members, on the needs of schools to enable sustainable school improvement.

8. Advise the HOSSE on the need for formal school intervention where appropriate and work with the HOSSE to exercise those powers of intervention.

Essential Criteria

· Degree or equivalent · Recognised teaching qualification · Evidence of relevant further professional development · This post requires satisfactory clearance of a criminal records bureau disclosure.

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