Reporting to:     Chief Education Officer

Salary:              GST Salary Band K (£58,584 - £65,166 Annually, FTE) + Teacher’s Pension               Part-Time/Full-Time 

 About this Role

You will be ultimately responsible for English across a growing trust and will be a passionate advocate for delivering improvements in your field. You will know first-hand the importance of educational improvement and how to develop your deep subject expertise to deliver improved outcomes for our children. You will lead and direct a joined-up trust approach across English to deliver the highest levels of support for school leaders and teaching staff across our schools.

 Key responsibilities

• To lead in English across the Trust, helping schools to improve practice by providing guidance, support, and expertise in order to enhance teaching and learning outcomes.
• To assess schools’ strengths and weaknesses in your specialism, identifying areas for improvement, developing, and supporting with implementation of improvement plans, providing professional development, and training, monitoring and evaluating progress.
• To advise schools on evidence-based practice related to your specialism, complying with educational regulations and policies.
• To help schools enhance their capacity to provide high-quality education to all pupils, and to foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation in your specialist area.

 Areas of Responsibility:

Operational/Strategic Leadership

• Create and implement a trust-wide development plan in your specialist area as part of the education team’s development plan in line with the trust’s stated vision, values and curriculum principles.
• Work with colleagues in the education team to develop a trust-wide curriculum policy, drawing on expert knowledge of suitable teaching and learning approaches, resources and schemes of work in your specialist area.
• Establish and oversee a trust-wide network in English; assess strengths and implement initiatives for schools to support each other and enhance practice.
• Assist in the identification, synthesis, and dissemination of evidence-based research to support outstanding subject specific teaching practice across the trust.
• Liaise with teaching hubs and other external agencies linked to your specialism, as appropriate.
• Support with the effective deployment of lead practitioners in undertaking improvement work across trust schools.
• Advise school leaders, within your specialist area, on how to support staff to maintain high expectations for all groups, ensuring all pupils have access to a rich curriculum. 
• Assist subject leaders where required in ensuring that the curriculum is expertly planned and sequenced in your specialist area and provide a range of teaching strategies which supports its effective implementation.
• Provide feedback and actionable steps for curriculum improvements and ensure schools are supported to implement them.

 Quality Assurance

•  To contribute to the process of monitoring and evaluation of your specialist area in line with agreed trust quality assurance procedures, including evaluation against quality standards and performance criteria.
•  To seek and/or implement modification and improvement where required.

 Experience and Qualifications

• Qualified Teacher Status
• A degree and/or professional qualification relevant to the role and/or equivalent learning through professional experience.
• Demonstrable experience of senior leadership in education with whole school or cross-school impact.
• Evidence of working within a key education specialism at a senior level and ability to lead across a wider team.