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School Partnership Adviser

School Partnership Adviser

Reading Borough Council

Reading

Salary:
Soulbury points 24-27: £58,282 - £61,389 pa
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
ASAP (From April 2015 also considered)
Apply by:
6 November 2014

Job overview

Reading Borough Council
Directorate of Education, Adult and Children's Services

Full-time, 37 hours per week

REF: EDC1458

Would you like to be part of a team that is committed and passionate about doing the best for the children of Reading?

The School Improvement team is well regarded by schools, working across all sectors including maintained schools, academies, and free schools. We continue to make a positive difference, focusing on our core purpose, which is to ensure that children are happy, healthy, safe, coping with change and challenge, are enthusiastic skilled learners who value themselves and others.

The Reading School Effectiveness Strategy involves working with and supporting schools to maximise educational achievement and enhance the life chances of all children and young people in Reading through partnership and collaboration.

Key principles of our strategy are:

  • partnership across Reading and beyond
  • challenge relating to data and targets
  • the 'new relationship' with schools as promoted nationally in maintained schools support allocated on the basis of agreed need, risk analysis and OfSTED status
  • the central aim of raising educational standards of attainment
    of children and young people to improve life chances particularly for those at risk of not achieving well.

We are looking for School Partnership Adviser to lead, support, challenge, and advise schools with regard to the Pupil Premium.

This will entail:

  • leading on and co-ordinating the development of strategies to support the use of the Pupil Premium in school at all levels, including Head Teachers, teachers, collaborating with colleagues working within the School Improvement Team, schools and other agencies
  • signposting best practice
  • analysing and providing relevant, up to date and pertinent information to a range of professionals from a wide range or sources and settings.

As a School Partnership Adviser, the role will involve:

  • being the vital link between schools and the wider children's services
  • driving school improvement across a number of schools, some of whom are facing challenging circumstances
  • working cross-phase, although the majority of this role is in the primary phase
  • promoting the sharing of best practice
  • acting as a critical friend to schools; working closely with head teachers, teachers and the wider advisory team.

You will have been a successful Headteacher with a demonstrable background of developing and sustaining leadership in a good or outstanding school, or have worked with schools as a Local Authority Adviser. Your experience will have encompassed assessing effectiveness in schools, challenging, developing, writing, presenting and advising on policy/strategy, as well as recommending future actions and direction.

We are particularly interested in hearing from suitably qualified applicants with experience of working with non-maintained alternative provision.

For additional information, please contact Ian Muir, Senior Schools Advisor, email Ian.Muir@reading.gov.uk or call 0118 937 4976.

To apply:

Application forms can be downloaded or completed on-line at www.reading.gov.uk. Alternatively, email recruitment@reading.gov.uk, or call 0118 937 2039 (24 hour answerphone) quoting the relevant reference number and stating which position you are interested in.

Please do not send a CV. For the purposes of equal opportunities,
we can only accept Reading Borough Council application forms.

An Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be sought from the successful candidate.

Closing date: Thursday 6 November 2014
Interview date: Monday 17 November 2014

About Reading Borough Council

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