Job Title: Regional English Lead - South West
School: Lift Schools Central Team
Location: South West Secondarys
Salary: Competitive
Hours: Full Time
Contract type: Initially fixed term until Aug 2027 but likely to be extended or go permanent
Start date: ASAP
A rare Regional English Lead focusing on the South West for Lift Schools.
Your new organisation
Lift Schools are one of the largest multi-academy trusts in the country made up of 58 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 33,000 pupils. Our incredible Chief Executive, Rebecca (Becks) Boomer-Clark, joined in 2021 and has a clear objective, an excellent education for every child, in every classroom, every day regardless of background, geography or ability. We are thrilled to be recruiting a Regional English Lead to drive our standard of excellence across our South West Secondaries.
Your new role
Reporting into Karl Sampson, Regional Executive Director for the South West, you will work closely with the senior leadership and subject leadership teams to improve and raise standards within English across our South West secondaries. You will analyse performance data to ensure that students are appropriately targeted for support and work across the Trust to ensure consistency of subject quality and delivery throughout the network of schools.
The role is jointly accountable for subject performance improvement, attainment and progress in English. You will have responsibility for planning, delivering and teaching high quality lessons, as well as delivering intervention programmes which challenge and support subject teams to achieve stretching targets for outcomes.
What you'll need to succeed
You will be a qualified teacher of English recent CPD in relation to subject area and proven experience of subject leadership including curriculum development with a sustained record of improvement in this curriculum area whilst utilising and analysing a broad range of data.
If you would like a confidential discussion or have any questions ahead of applying we'd love to hear from you. Please contact the recruitment manager, Jessica Billows on jbillows@liftschools.org
We offer you:
Comprehensive training: Access to some of the best developmental training to boost your career.
Generous benefits: From your pension plan to healthcare and financial support, we've got you covered.
Lifestyle perks: Enjoy discounted gym memberships, travel deals, and much more.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.
Lift Schools is committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
Lift Schools embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and there is a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.