Raising Standards Leader

Job Title: Year 11 Raising Standards Leader

Contract: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: M1- UPS3 £30,000-£46,525) + TLR 2BB £7,308

Start: September 2024

We are looking for a Year 11 Raising Standards Leader to join our supportive and talented team at Winterstoke Hundred Academy. We are a diverse multi-academy trust, looking for professional and ambitious people, with a passion for transforming our students’ learning.   

What we are looking for: 

We are looking for a Raising Standards Leader who will be a highly committed professional with a high level of emotional intelligence. The Raising Standards Leader will share our passion to deliver an outstanding student experience and have the ability to deliver outstanding results. They will be an excellent communicator and an effective leader. They will be innovative, creative and flexible in their approach, to achieve the best results. 

Accountable to the Assistant Principal, the responsibilities of the Raising Standards Leader will include: 

• Working in a leadership team with other Raising Standards Leaders and SLT to provide strategic leadership and direction to a year group and effective day to day management of the cohort. 
• Monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of learning and teaching and progress towards targets in the year group. 
• Increase the number of students with a positive progress 8 within the year group. Narrowing the gap between students within identified key groups and students not in those groups (e.g. pupil premium and non-pupil premium, SEND and no SEN) 
• Increasing the standard of achievement of all students, ensuring student attainment is at least in line with academy targets. 
• Lead on standards and the academic attainment and progress of an identified year group. This will require the Raising Standards Leader to work alongside and collaboratively with Pastoral Leaders. 

The Raising Standards Leader will be a member of the Extended Leadership Team and will contribute to, and benefit from, an extensive network of high quality, committed professionals working towards a common aim of improving the life chances of every student we serve and where possible having an impact that extends beyond your own setting. 

About the Cabot Learning Federation:

The Cabot Learning Federation is a diverse Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) in the South West. We are proud to serve 18,000+ pupils who all attend ten secondary academies, thirteen primary academies, an all through provision, a studio school, a discrete Post 16 provision, two alternative provision schools and three SEMH special schools.

CLF is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The trust is proud to serve a diverse student population and their communities. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.

We are proud to be part of diverse communities in the region and celebrate the richness of cultures, faiths and backgrounds of our students. We aim to develop a curriculum that is responsive to our pupil’s needs and reflects their diverse interests and backgrounds.

How to Apply:

To Apply, you will need to click the 'Apply Now' button on this page, which will redirect you to the CLF advert page. Within the CLF advert page, you can download and review the job description and person specification and then register/login to apply for the role.

CV’s will not be accepted and any submitted will not be considered alongside your application.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Safeguarding and pre-employment checks:

The Cabot Learning Federation are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This role has significant responsibility for ensuring safeguarding practice within the academy. This role involves working with children on a daily basis and is therefore in regulated activity.

The successful applicant will, in accordance with statutory guidance, be subject to a comprehensive pre-employment checking process including references from current and previous employers, health, right to work in the UK and a child disqualification check. The checks will also include an enhanced DBS check and a further check against the appropriate barred list.