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Job Title: Regional Leader for New Schools
Location: Home Based with Regional Travel (when required)
Contract Type: 12 month Fixed Term Contract (with the potential to go permanent)
Salary: £55,000 - £60,000 per annum plus £3,000 car allowance
About the Role
Outcomes First Group is on the lookout for a strong school leader with experience of setting up new sites.
As our Regional Leader for New Schools, you would visit sites across the country we are looking to build or purchase, to scope out their quality and potential. You will work alongside our premises team and quality team to evaluate business needs and help us shape our offer to support the local area.
As part of the Quality function, our Regional Leader for New Schools you will be the on-site leader for onboarding and setting up of new services across the group. You will provide efficient and comprehensive support to new schools, ensuring compliance and regulatory standards as well as guidance, training, and preparation for inspection.
You will be able to evaluate against the independent school standards and Ofsted criteria and you will understand the role of a wide range of independent special schools across the UK. You will be based in the South but be available to work across the country and will experience the full range of pupils we support. You will be flexible, thrive on challenge, be happy working to deadlines and will be able to make strong working relationships quickly showcasing your excellent communication skills.
To be successful in this role you will need:
Essential Skills
• Experience of school leadership and of opening new schools
• Excellent IT skills including Word and Excel
• Excellent communication both written and verbal
• Adaptability and flexibility – can handle multiple priorities
• Excellent organisational and administration skills
• Focused on meeting deadlines and to work under pressure
• Accurate with high attention to detail
• Awareness of equal opportunities issues and regulatory requirements
• Patience and resilience
• Good customer service skills and sense of urgency
Desirable Skills
• Experience of independent special schools
• Experience of opening multiple schools or different kinds of schools
• Experience of the inspection and regulation of schools
• School improvement or consultation experience
• Coaching or mentoring experience
This role would suit a strong deputy head looking for a broad range of experiences rather than a single permanent headship, or a senior leader looking for challenge and regular changes of pace and location, such as a school improvement advisor or educational consultant.
Each of our schools is unique, and operates independently, choosing their own curriculum, appointing their own staff, and designing their response to pupil needs bespoke to their location. Your role is to make transition into group easier by guiding them to access support that is available, coaching them to make best use of the resources so that they maintain their individuality whilst minimising workload, to enable them to focus their time and energy on the children.
About the Quality team:
Our quality team provides central support to our schools to help them maintain their quality. Our team includes the pedagogy teams, as well as health and safety and safeguarding. This team works alongside core staff in the central teams for HR, finance, premises, clinical, technology and operational elements. Your role will be to network and connect the new school to all these teams.
About the Group
Outcomes First Group is the leading provider of specialist education in the UK. We exist to give neurodivergent children and young people access to a great education that caters to their specific needs, abilities and aspirations.
There are three brands in our Outcomes First family: Acorn Education, Options Autism and Momenta Connect. Together, we educate, care for and support children, young people, and adults across the UK, empowering them to be happy and make their way in the world.
Our Vision
We believe that with a great education, every neurodivergent pupil can thrive and make their way in the world.
Our Mission
Every day we improve the lives of our pupils, their families, and local communities through a relentless focus on wellbeing and learning.
Our Promise
We are kind to ourselves and each other...We work together... and we make things happen.
Our Promise sits alongside our Vision and Mission. It describes the sort of people we are and our commitment to how we treat each other, work together, and behave.
It represents what’s truly important to us as individuals and as a team. It is easily translatable into behaviours we all practice and experience every day. It's the golden thread that runs through every leader, team and individual.
Why work for us?
Your wellbeing is very important to us, and we know that being able to choose the benefits that suit you and your family will support your wellbeing.
Whatever your role and wherever you’re located, you’ll love VISTA, our flexible benefits platform which lets you tailor your benefits package.
- And when your circumstances change…no problem. You can flex, trade and add to your benefits package to suit your circumstances.
- Holidays start at 25 days per annum plus bank holidays on top with options to buy an additional 5 days
- Critical illness cover and life assurance options
- Company Pension with options to increase your contributions
- Private medical and dental Insurance
- 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
- Eco-Car Scheme
- “Your Wellbeing Matters"- access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks
- Career development opportunities
- Professional support networks and groups
- * 4 Day working week - ‘rest-day’ could be any day Mon-Fri (agreed with Manager), available after successful completion of probationary period
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all employees to share this commitment and undertake appropriate checks.
We are an Equal Opportunities Employer.
Winner UK Best Workplaces for Women™ Awards 2023, for the past 3 years.
Winner UK Great Place to Work™ Awards 2024, for the past 5 years.