Assistant Director - Education
London Borough of Merton
Merton
- Expired
- Salary:
- £90,975
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 14 November 2014
Job overview
London Borough of Merton
Merton is a high performing outer London Borough that has earned a reputation for delivering excellent services and value for money - we were named Best Achieving Council of the Year at the 2013 MJ awards.
This is an exciting time to lead our education team. Our schools are performing well after having delivered the best GCSE results ever. We have a good Ofsted profile and excellent relationships with head teachers and schools.
Your challenge will be to drive continuous improvement within Children, Schools and Families Services using contracting resources. We'll look to you to enhance school performance while leading on education inclusion, early years and children's centres and active engagement with schools. You'll shape a team of three Service Managers as you take charge of SEND, the Education Partnership and Schools Forum. You will also deliver demanding targets in providing childcare places for to year olds.
You'll come to us with comprehensive knowledge of education and education improvement together with strong leadership and performance management skills. An understanding of social care would be highly desirable. Fully conversant with managing finances and budgets, you will have political nous together with real insight into how local authorities work. It's likely you have a background of managing significant cultural change within a large local authority. A completer-finisher with a can-do attitude, you will have the ability to challenge the views of yourself and others.
This is a fantastic opportunity to shine at a high performing Council with a strong commitment to putting children first.
For further information about this key role please visit www.mertoncareers.co.uk.
For a confidential discussion please ring Anthony Hopkin on 07500 042272 or Maggie Hennessy on 07877 004648 at Penna.
Closing date: 14 November 2014.
About London Borough of Merton
- London Borough of Merton
- Civic Centre, London Road
- Morden
- SM4 5DX
- United Kingdom
• Population of 197,700 (mid-year 2006 estimate) – projected to increase to 207,400 by 2015 – living in
78,000 households.
• Three main town centres: Wimbledon, Mitcham and Morden.
• Predominantly suburban in character, with high levels of commuter flows in and out of central London.
• Good connections with the London transport network – the District and Northern lines both run through the borough,Tramlink provides connections between Wimbledon and Croydon via Mitcham and Morden, and numerous over-ground stations and bus routes provide easy access to central London and neighbouring boroughs.
• Significant amounts of green space – notably Wimbledon and Mitcham commons. The borough also has 67 parks and open spaces, 11 nature reserves and 17 allotment sites.
• Approximately 25% of the population is from black and minority ethnic (BME) groups, rising to 50% of children attending Merton schools.
• 160 languages are spoken in Merton’s 43 primary and 11 secondary schools.
• Increasing numbers of groups with particular needs, for example, older people and BME communities.
• Seven libraries provide Internet access, summer reading schemes and homework clubs as well as traditional book, CD, DVD and video lending.
• Merton plays host to one of the country’s most famous sporting events – the Wimbledon fortnight held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.
• Council tax is currently set at £1,401.31 (2008/09) for a band D property (including the Greater London Authority precept), at the median level for outer London boroughs.
• Main areas of concern to residents are the level of council tax, street cleanliness, and crime and anti-social behaviour, although Merton is consistently in the top three safest boroughs in London.
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