School Improvement Advisor

**About The Role**:
**Job Title: Secondary School Improvement advisor**

**Hours: Term time only - 5 days per week (0.86 whole time equivalent)**

**Salary: £56,871 - £59,766 Pro Rata - Soulbury scale points 14 - 16**

**Contract: Fixed term**:

- one year**

**Closing date: 30.6.25**

**Interview date:TBC**

**Start Date: ASAP**

**Come and join us on our Restorative Journey of Improvement to gain the best for children and families in Herefordshire**

**The Role**

In Herefordshire, we care about our people and how we deliver services to our community. We want to attract the best talent. In the Education, Skills and Learning Service we encourage a culture that puts children and young people at the heart of everything we do, by empowering our people to collaborate, think innovatively, make decisions and find solutions. Join us and be part of something better.

We wish to recruit an experienced secondary school improvement adviser to join the team. The secondary school improvement advisor will work with the Head of Learning and Achievement and the wider Directorate Team on all matters related to the performance and strategic management of education within Herefordshire.

You will be a qualified teacher with experience of delivering and coordinating secondary school improvement activities either with a school or local authority in a senior leadership role.

You will have a proven track record of leading improvements within your current educational role and of supporting more than one school.

Safeguarding of children and young people is taken seriously by the council and a disclosure and barring services check will be undertaken for successful applicants.

**Benefits of working for Herefordshire Council**:
A competitive salary, generous holiday entitlement, and access to our contributory pension and staff benefits scheme, which includes:

- **Pension**Scheme Enrolment in the Local Government (LGPS)
- **Generous Annual Leave**: 31 days (pro rata) plus bank holidays. You can also purchase an additional 10 days per annum
- **Flexible working**:flexi-time, job-share, part-time hours and, in some instances, home working
- **Employee Assistance Programme**: 24/7 access to support and counselling
- Payment of **professional membership fees**:

- **Pick your perks**- our benefits include access to a range of retail, leisure, holiday and health benefits. This includes savings, cash back and discounts.

**About Us**

Herefordshire is a beautiful, historic county located in the heart of the Marches on the border with Wales. We are one of the most rural and sparsely populated counties in England with a wealth of unspoilt countryside, distinctive heritage, and lively and attractive market towns.

Our priority in Herefordshire is to keep children safe and give them a great start in life. It’s the priority for the council, our partners and for all of us who work with Children & Young People.

How do we do this? By having dynamic, dedicated, passionate and professional staff who work in a culture that focuses on what we can achieve with children, what they can achieve themselves, and the relationship we build with families and partners to enable this. We have invested heavily in training and developing staff in our relational practice approach with our improvement partner Leeds City Council, so it's an exciting time to join Herefordshire - we believe in investing in you so you can be the best you can be

Herefordshire has a really strong team ethos. Our teams are passionate about the work they do and the positive difference they and the teams they are in make to people’s lives. This is all underpinned by the focus and support from their managers and the council as a whole.

We will deliver better support to our most vulnerable children and their families, develop stronger relationships with partners across the region, and beyond.

Therefore, we take our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults seriously and expect all of our staff, visitors and volunteers to share in this commitment.

Come to Herefordshire and join the journey.

We welcome applicants whatever their personal characteristics or social identity. All requests for flexible working arrangements and reasonable adjustments will be considered.
- Those who indicate that they have a disability. This is part of our commitment to the “Disability Confident” scheme;
- Those who indicate in their supporting statement that they serve in the Armed Forces, whether Regular or Reserve, those who have served in the past, or their families. This is part of our pledge to support the Armed Forces Covenant; and
- Those who indicate in their supporting statement that they are a Herefordshire care leaver. This is part of our commitment to supporting young people leaving our care.

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for more details of this role.