Careers & PSHE Strategic Lead

CAREERS & PSHE STRATEGIC LEAD TLT MPS/UPS TLR 2c £8,279 Easter/ July 2025 We require a Careers & PSHE Strategic Leader to start in Easter or July 2025. The successful candidate will be a well-organised and outstanding PSHE classroom practitioner, keen to develop their leadership skills across the whole Academy through a TLR responsibility for Careers and PSHE. This is an exciting opportunity to have a significant impact upon the personal development of our students at Lord Grey and work with the Vice Principal for Quality of Education and Personal Development to deliver an outstanding curriculum that ensures all students at Lord Grey can thrive both whilst with us and in their future lives. As strategic lead of PSHE, your role will be to lead, promote and develop the PSHE/RSE offer to ensure we deliver a programme that meets statutory requirements and beyond. You will be passionate about raising the profile of PSHE/RSE and in delivering a personal development curriculum that is ambitious, coherent and sequenced alongside the academic curriculum. The role of the careers leader is to plan and implement a strategy for developing a careers programme for the school that meets all eight of the Gatsby benchmarks of good practice and prepares young people for the choices and transitions in education, training and employment, supported by a careers office and dedicated admin support. Specific responsibilities will include: Careers Strategic oversight of careers education and, with the Careers Officer, lead, manage, develop, track and be accountable for CEIAG through the taught and wider curriculum to ensure the highest possible standards of careers education. Line manage the Careers Officer to ensure the Gatsby Benchmarks are met and Compass+ and UNIFROG are fully utilised and impactful. Ensure all students in Y11 and Y13 receive impartial guidance on their next steps and are supported in reaching their destinations. Liaise with the Careers Office and admin support to prepare reports for Governors. PSHE Overall responsibility for the leadership, promotion, and development of Personal, Social, Health Education and curriculum across the school. Oversee the provision of relationship and sex education (RSE) and citizenship under the statutory guidance for schools. Ensure a holistic approach is taken to personal development within the PSHE curriculum through the delivery of topics and lessons covering CEIAG, safeguarding/child protection and strategies for positive mental health and wellbeing. Overall accountability for the delivery within the Department. The right candidate will be aligned to our values of encouraging all students to be ambitious, determined, independent, respectful, and successful, and completely committed to promoting our mantra of Lord Grey Can! A lesson observation and a formal interview will form the selection criteria. A vacancy booklet, information for candidates booklet, and the application form are available on the vacancies section of Lord Grey Academy’s website:

http://www.lordgrey.org.uk/general-information/vacancies/ Completed application form and covering letter should be submitted to Human Resources at Lord Grey Academy or emailed to

hr@lordgrey.org.uk

by 9am on Monday 3rd February 2025. Interviews to be held on Thursday 6th February 2025. Only successfully shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Join an Academy part of a highly supportive and growing MAT.

Lord Grey joined Tove Learning Trust in April 2018 and is situated in Bletchley on the outskirts of the growing city of Milton Keynes. We achieved our GOOD OFSTED status in Summer 2022. Since then we have gone from strength to strength with improving GCSE and level 3 results; a football partnership with Paris St-Germain and winners of MK Inspiration Awards ‘Inspiring Secondary School’ 2023 and MK Educations Awards ‘Secondary School of the Year’; ‘Maths Team of the Year’ and ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ November 2023. The right candidate will join us on our exciting journey and enable us to continue to provide a great education for our amazing students as we prepare them for adult life. We have a strong collegial team who create a real atmosphere of collaboration and community who embody - Lord Grey Can! Tove Learning Trust The trust is committed to ensuring that all students achieve as highly as possible, and we work hard to offer stimulating environments that enable every learner to progress and flourish. We have a small central team and a committed Board of Trustees that are focused on delivering outstanding outcomes. We aim to have academies that are excellent communities of learning where students thrive on success. There are seven secondary schools and one primary school in this growing Trust. The Academy is committed to safeguarding children. The successful applicant will require an enhanced DBS check.

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