Ambition Lead:
Reading & Oracy
FOXFORD SCHOOL
Permanent
L1-5
Required from September 2024
Due to the growth of our school the governors, staff, parents and carers wish to appoint
a highly motivated and inspirational individual with excellent leadership and management
skills to join our staff team.
This post is an opportunity for an ambitious leader to join the Headteacher and the
Ambition Lead Team in driving the school towards its goal of providing an exceptional
education for the students in our community. The successful candidate will be part of a
school improvement team implementing and embedding strategy to ensure consistency
across the school.
The successful candidate will be an outstanding and innovate classroom practitioner. The
candidate may be someone who is looking for their next step in their career and wants to
be able to demonstrate a strategic approach to ensure that all students achieve their full
potential. You will lead on Reading and Oracy across the curriculum alongside an
Assistant Headteacher.
You will be a strong communicator, with natural empathy, who works positively with other
professionals upholding our value of ‘Respect all, from all’.
It is an exciting time to join our school as you will have the opportunity to work with a
dedicated team of educational specialists who have identified and embody the following
leadership behaviours:
• Influential profile within the school.
• Has passion for educational excellence.
• Are a strategic thinker who has experience of whole school improvement.
• Leading by example, demonstrating learning agility.
• Communicating effectively, embodying resilience and adaptability.
• Committing to professional learning, including modelling great teaching practice.
• Perceptive and logical in identifying problems and solving them effectively.
• Maintaining a focus on what benefits our students.
• Motivates others to achieve goals, engages and empowers colleagues, students and
stakeholders.
• Experience within a senior leadership role.
• Possess energy and enthusiasm.
• Committed to our vision, values and ambitions.
• Knowledge and experience of safeguarding
We are proud to be part of Castle Phoenix Trust that specialises in leadership. Leadership
development underpins all of our work. This facilitates an opportunity to develop emotional
intelligence and explores effective leadership attributes.
We will play to your strengths and provide excellent collaboration between colleagues and
leaders across the Trust. You will have access to effective CPD, leadership conferences
and professional leadership profiling using tools such as motivational maps and insights
to facilitate your development. The Trust is committed to investing in all staff and, most
importantly, bring about the best possible outcomes for our students.
As an Ambition Lead for Reading and Oracy, you will have an integral role in working in
partnership with the Headteacher, our Trust, governors and staff to ensure the continuous
improvement of the school.
In additional we can offer you:
• Opportunities to network with leaders across the Trust and beyond
• Leadership profiling
• Bespoke leadership development for you
• A strong commitment to staff wellbeing and recognition
• Annual Conferences across the Trust
• A professional, hardworking and supportive team of staff with the capability and desire
to raise students’ achievements even further
• Enthusiastic students who are willing to learn and are proud of their learning environment
• A caring and supportive working environment within a vibrant school community
Application deadline: 9:00am Monday 13 May 2024
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response.
If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks, please assume you have been unsuccessful.
Please note, an online search may form part of this recruitment process following recommendations from
Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2023.
These posts are exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these
posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via the
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The Trust is committed to safeguarding, promoting the welfare of
children and young people and creating a culture of vigilance and expects all staff and volunteers to share
this commitment and vigilance.