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We are currently recruiting for the below post:
School Effectiveness Lead – This role will be based in Stopford House and around Schools within the Stockport Borough – £500 per day
To deliver the strategic outcomes of the School Effectiveness Service Area by leadingservice delivery, working closely with schools and other Local Authority services acrossStockport.
- Deliver clear and strong educational messages to all schools that will enable the sector to meet Local Authority priorities, deliver Stockport’s Schools Strategy and promote a high-quality education for all children
- Hold all maintained schools to account in relation to standards, leadership and governance
- Ensure high quality inclusive practice is promoted in all schools and is developed well across the educational sector
- Ensure that school leaders are supported well to enable them to deliver the highest academic outcomes for all children including those from vulnerable groups
- Deliver locally agreed school improvement activity which will include the enhanced support and challenge for any schools that purchase services from within our portfolio
- Maximise the benefits of our integrated system to promote the highest outcomes for the children and young people of Stockport
- Ensure all staff working within the service area understand and strive towards our ambition to have the ‘best schools in the country where every child is included in their success’
- Support staff teams across the Local Authority to understand this ambition and work with service leaders to enable them to develop their practice to support it wherever possible.
The responsibilities of the School Effectiveness Lead: Standards and Inclusion will be wide ranging and will be drawn from the list below. The post-holder must manage the relationships with school leaders, whilst understanding the wider system to support schools and the Local Authority to deliver an outstanding educational offer for all children and young people in Stockport.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain positive working relationships with school leaders and leaders across the education system
- To provide high quality support and challenge to school leaders
- To provide high quality support and challenge to wider system leaders about the educational aspects of the Local Authority’s work to promote and enhance our integrated system
- Work strategically to formulate service plans based upon our ambition, current data, feedback from stakeholders, and the requirements of the regulator
- Develop operational practice both in schools and within Local Authority services
- Line manage staff across the school effectiveness team to ensure priorities are understood and delivered using current evidence-based practice
- Deliver locally agreed school improvement activity
- Manage all statutory assessment process in Early Years and the primary phase for all schools in line with the requirement of the Standards and Testing Agency
- Responsibility for the delivery of key pieces of work will will (not exhaustively) include
- Lead and manage processes to ensure the Local Authority fulfills its statutory duty in respect of Standard Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE)
- Lead and manage aspects of the work from different services to fulfill the requirements of the Armed Forces Covenant for Education Services
- Lead the partnership working to ensure effective delivery of the Early Career Teacher programme across Stockport
- Lead and manage the Anti-Poverty Strategy for Education
- Lead and manage the Whole School Approach to mental health in school
- Lead the partnership working to deliver an effective educational response to wider inclusion issues e.g. anti-racism
- Lead and manage the transition processes between phases across the system
- Lead our system-wide management of Alternative Provision
- Lead, manage and deliver leadership training (for headteachers, subject leaders and Special Educational Needs Coordinators (SENCOs) and curriculum support for school leaders.
- Lead and manage the work of other colleagues (e.g. health and well-being lead, on-line learning manager) to integrate them into the wider Local Authority offer
- Lead and manage the professional development of colleagues within the range of services included in the portfolio
- Please note that the areas of responsibility are likely to develop and change as the needs of the service respond to current issues and pressures
- To maintain your own professional development and remain professionally curious
- Contribute to the ongoing professional development of the senior leadership team within the service area
- To work positively and inclusively with colleagues and customers so that the Council provides a workplace to deliver a service that does not discriminate against people on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, race, religion, belief, sex, or sexual orientation.
- To fulfil personal requirements, where appropriate, with regards to Council policies and procedures, standards of attendance, health, safety and welfare, customer care, emergency, evacuation, security and promotion of the Council’s priorities.
Additional Information
The responsibilities set out in this document, in the advert and any additional information are intended to provide a flavour of the work you will carry out. It is not possible to include everything you will be asked to undertake, and we expect all colleagues to work flexibly according to business needs and to enhance your own development. Your skills, abilities and training needs will be taken into account and discussed with you when any significant changes to your role are needed. In line with our flexible approach, you may be required to work from home for a proportion of your time or from any of the Council’s sites across the borough.
The Council is an inclusive employer and holds the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant accreditations. If you have a disability, we will support you by implementing reasonable adjustments to enable you to perform your role.
About You
Please use your application to tell us how well you meet the criteria listed below as these are the key skills, experience, technical expertise and qualifications needed to be successful in the role. We will then use all the information you provide in your application to help us decide whether you are shortlisted for interview. Any interview questions or additional assessments such as tests or presentations may also be broadly based on these criteria:
- Working to the Council’s values and behaviours by:
- Keeping the people of Stockport at the heart of what we do
- Succeeding as a team, collaborating with colleagues and partners
- Driving things forward with ambition, creativity and confidence
- Showing value and respect to our colleagues, partners and customers.
- Demonstrate experience of building and maintaining strong relationships at all levels, including those with senior leaders.
- Experience of senior school leadership roles and an ability to demonstrate an understanding the complexities of managing a school/academy.
- Demonstrate an awareness of the complexities of the relationship between schools and the Local Authority.
- Ability to remain focussed upon the strategic objective irrespective of the task that is being completed.
- Think strategically.
- Capacity to lead others well and provide professional advice and supervision to a high standard.
- The technical knowledge to complete many of the key tasks listed above.
- Commitment to continued personal development (including but not limited to, school leadership, the development of reading/communication, adaptive teaching, graduated response in all areas and SEND processes) and be willing to learn any technical knowledge required to manage areas of responsibility well.
- Work independently.
- Manage your time efficiently, prioritising appropriately when necessary.
- Compile reports for a variety of audiences efficiently and to a high standard.
- Analyse and interpret educational data well.
- Maintain your professional curiosity.
Benefits within this role
- Competitive pay rate
- Long contracts for good performance
- Supportive team and management
- Progression opportunities
- Remote working available
- Flexible working
- Condensed Working Weeks negotiable
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