Education Effectiveness Partner

Children and Families Department

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall, Leicester Rd, Glenfield, Leicester LE3 8RA

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: Leadership scale: 4-5 TPC

Working Hours:Full time: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Fixed term/ Secondment for (12 months)

Closing Date: 18th May 2025

Interview Date(s): Thursday 22nd May 2025

About the Role

Leicestershire County Council are committed to making a real difference to the lives of our children and young people. To be able to achieve this, we need to have a team of resolute and outstanding staff, who will contribute to our exceptional learning community.
Through a successful bid to the government's Change Programme Partnership, an opportunity has arisen for two dynamic and committed Education Effectiveness Partners to join the team in a continued development strategy working with schools on joint strategies for inclusion, use of alternative provision and promoting positive outcomes for Leicestershire's most vulnerable children and young people.
We are seeking a dynamic and committed Education Effectiveness Partner to join our Education Effectiveness Service area within Children and Family Services. This role involves being the point of contact for all schools, academies, colleges, and educational settings in a geographical area of Leicestershire, fostering good working relationships to ensure the best possible education for children and young people.
Knowledge and an understanding of the current agendas within education, particularly regarding inclusion, use and development of internal alternative provision arrangements and SEN would be beneficial. Additionally, strategic experience in these areas and involvement in the secondary phase would be advantageous.
This roll offers flexible working arrangements and hybrid working (mix of working from home and office).
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and effective Education Effectiveness Partner who will:

• Champion and develop practice that promotes equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) strategies in schools, central services and other educational settings (e.g., Further Education Colleges).
• Provide advice and support to schools to inform practice that promotes the prevention of, and tackles the leading causes for, suspensions, permanent exclusions and long-term absenteeism
• Manage national and local initiatives to improve teaching and learning outcomes for all children and young people.
• Gather, interpret, and apply performance data to identify areas of high or underperformance.
• Have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, demonstrated through experience of successful management of significant programmes or projects which include the planning, managing, and delivering of transformation strategies and influencing partners to deliver within a programme framework.
• Have an awareness of a local authority statutory duties and national/local initiatives and can demonstrate they can adapt their Qualified Teacher Status and knowledge of the 5-16 education sectors and performance management systems to support the requirements on both the local authority and state-funded schools
• Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to deliver complex information to non-specialist staff
  

The nature of the work may involve working outside normal hours

A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

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About You

The Education Effectiveness Partner will play an integral role, as part of the Education Effectiveness Team, to successfully implement national and local initiatives to promote and embed school improvement strategies within educational settings where Leicestershire children are educated; to secure the best start in life for all our children, particularly the most vulnerable.

To apply for this post, you must:

• Have Qualified Teacher Status with DfE number and extensive experience of working with schools, including evaluating and developing whole-school practice.
• Have a sound understanding of the issues facing schools and how schools operate.
• Have recent, successful management of significant programmes or projects and can demonstrate experience of strategic thinking at a senior level
• Have experience of developing and maintaining initiatives, and quality assuring their effectiveness.
• Be able to work independently and with initiative, Be able to deal with sensitive issues with diplomacy and tact.
• Have some understanding of the legislative, regulatory and statutory duties in Education relating to the right of children and young people to access a good quality education.
• Have effective communication skills., Be well-motivated and flexible, Have a professional manner and plenty of common sense.
  

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to,equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion,please contact:

Rebecca Wakeley, Senior Education Effectiveness Partner (service manager)

Telephone: 0116 3051250 or 0116 3053365 for the main Education Effectiveness line

Email: Rebecca.Wakeley@leics.gov.uk

How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

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