Governing Body Adviser

3 months ago


Lancashire, United Kingdom Lancashire County Council Full time

| Salary £24,052-£27,852 Per annum | Permanent, Part Time, 19 hours per week | Governor Services | Pro Rata**School Governing Body Advisors **(Hybrid & Term-time)

**North & East Lancashire**

**Salary: £24,052 - £27,852 **(Pay award pending)

**1 x North Lancashire**:Preston, Lancaster, Fylde & Wyre

**1 x South Lancashire**:Chorley, South Ribble & West Lancashire

**We are currently recruiting **

**2 x School Governing Body Advisors **to work within **Governor Services **in **the Directorate of Education and Children' Services **, working 19 hours per week on a term - time only basis.

As a School Governing Body Advisor, you will support and advise Volunteer Governors within the Education Sector. The Advisor's key role is to support Governors to fulfil their statutory functions to ensure clarity of vision, ethos, and a strategic direction for their school. This valuable and community focused position will assist Governors to be accountable for educational performance, the performance of its employees and for the school's financial performance. In this integral position, you will be arranging, attending, advising, and minuting Governing Body meetings in liaison with the Head Teacher and the Chair of Governors as well as providing advice and guidance. So, if you're ready for a flexible, term time only opportunity to work around your commitments then we would love you to apply

**What we are looking for **

**Service Excellence **You'll be focused on delivering service excellence to our customers to provide the right advisory support to fulfil our service level agreements whilst ensuring management deliver their key functions - to do this you will become a critical friend to the board who can prompt and ask the right questions at the right time - this will assist Governors in holding schools to account for the actions and decisions which impact children's education including budgetary and more - in this valuable and rewarding role you will arrange, participate and advise at various Governing Body Meetings - your enthusiastic yet professional approach will really contribute to the ethos of each school and will assist in providing the best possible service to each school we support

**Collaborative **This role needs an excellent collaborator to work in partnership with an array of disciplines from Human Resources, Pupil Access and more - this is to ensure we collaborate efficiently to perform our advisory duties - your flexible approach will require you to work in a variety of settings in a specific geographical location, so at times you could be in the office, school or at home and this will help us meet the needs of the service - in addition you'll have lots of autonomy to deliver our key functions; so we'll need you to be organised to adhere to strict deadlines to ensure we remain accountable and compliant in our obligations

**Reasons to join us **

**Benefits**:We're family friendly and offer a great work-life balance. We offer a Credit Union, personal and professional qualifications and development, an Employee Assistance Program including counselling services, mobile phone discounts, gym memberships and lots more.

**Development**:You'll receive a comprehensive induction and bespoke training to become a Governing Body Advisor - there will be time for supportive reflection and supervision for yourself, opportunities for personal growth and development, multidisciplinary initiatives, mentoring, the opportunity to make a difference, feel valued and achieve the job satisfaction you've always wanted.

**Inclusivity**:we don't have a "one size fits all" idealism, we embrace diversity and that includes around personal and family requirements, so we support flexible working and working flexibly. We take inclusivity seriously and would like to improve the diversity within our teams to better reflect the people we serve, so we are particularly keen to hear from you if you are a person of colour, from the LGBTQ+ community or have a disability.
- Please feel free to contact us for an initial informal and confidential chat:
**North Lancashire**: Preston, Lancaster, Fylde & Wyre

**South Lancashire**: Chorley, South Ribble & West Lancashire

**Please ensure you have uploaded and attached your supporting statement to evidence how you meet the criteria for the role. The panel may be unable to shortlist you for interview without this evidence.
You will be required to provide a car for use in connection with the duties of this post and must be insured for business use. However, we may consider you if you cannot drive because of a disability.

In return Lancashire County Council offers a range of benefits, which can be found on LCC Vacancies website.

**Job Description & Person Specification



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