Education Lead

**Full Job Description**:
**Job Title: Education Lead on Site**

**Location: The Shires at Oakham School, Oakham LE15 6JB**

**Salary: £47,000 per annum**

**Hours: 40 hours per week**

**Contract: Permanent, Term Time + 2 weeks**

We are looking for an experienced Education Lead on Site to join our fantastic team at The Shires at Oakham School. As the Education Lead on Site, you will provide a high-quality education service for our students in accordance with Company policies, procedures and practices and the standards set by the Regulatory Body. You will work with the Head Teacher, leadership team and other stakeholders to secure high standards throughout the school.

**KEY TASK AREAS AND RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Directly line manage Assistant Heads and teaching staff
- Ensure an appropriately challenging and relevant curriculum is in place, including robust long-term and medium-term curriculum planning that highlights the length, breadth and depth of the curriculum
- Ensure robust monitoring, evaluation and reporting of the site provision, pupil progress and outcomes
- Completion of termly governance report and other outcome reporting as required
- Ensure affective day to day management of the school
- Effectively implement and imbed the schools agreed vision, principles and policy
- To work effectively as part of the school senior leadership team, with the head teacher, head of service and other senior management and regional office support staff, to develop the detail of the strategy for the school
- To ensure that appropriate standards are maintained, especially in relation to education, care and clinical programmes for students, in accordance with company policies
- To adhere to the Special Education Needs Code of Practice and other relevant legislation

Essential Experience
- Relevant experience in the specialist area of the service ie relevant experience of working with young people/young adults with autism spectrum disorder and/or challenging behavior
- Relevant experience as a deputy head teacher
- Experience of Ofsted procedures / inspections
- Managing budgets effectively and ensuring cost efficiency

Desirable
- Experience of working within a residential school
- NPQH

**About us**

The Shires consists of two sites both within a 15-minute drive of one another. We have two Special Educational Needs (SEN) Schools and 1 Residential home. We provide specialist education an care for young people aged 11-19 who have been diagnosed with Autism and may have accompanying learning disabilities, behavioural problems or medical conditions.

The ethos of The Shires is very much characterised by a ‘can do’ attitude. We want people who focus on the positive outcome of our children and take responsibility for helping improve the lives of our young people. We share the value of creating a safe and nurturing home and we want people who can be fair and respectful, in order to do the right thing to support everyone in our care.

For over 16 years Options Autism have provided care and education to children, young people and adults with autism, complex needs and learning difficulties. As part of Outcomes First Group we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approaches that provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.

**Why join Options Autism?**

**Benefits**

Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including:

- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
- “Your Wellbeing Matters” - access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including:

- A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
- 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Electric Car Purchase Scheme
- Critical illness cover

And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the children and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.