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SalaryAre you an experienced, outstanding Education professional with substantial executive leadership experience?
Have you been successful in developing and delivering an innovative and engaging curriculum for vulnerable young people with neurodiverse identities?
Do you make evidence based decisions to drive successful teaching & learning outcomes?
Although advertised as permanent and full-time, we would welcome applications and discussions with candidates who may desire more flexible / part-time working patterns.
We are seeking a highly experienced senior Education professional to lead, provide strategic direction to, and collaborate with, teachers and educators in our sector leading specialist therapeutic education schools and services.
In this role you will champion our organisation's values, modelling high expectations in quality of teaching, reforming and continually developing our curriculum and academic delivery. Our aim is, over the next 3-5 academic years, to solidify our position as an educator of choice through high-quality teaching, innovative and engaging curriculum and enrichment, and inclusive safe learning environments which allow our vulnerable and complex young people to thrive, gain qualifications and become successful independent adults and leaders.
You will provide a high level of expertise in academic focussed solutions, ensuring strong top-down leadership and accountability, so that all our staff and pupils have the right resources to ensure effective pupil progress, passion for life-long learning and career development, with the skills to positively influence our community and society.
Essential requirements to be successful in the role are:
- A champion of Education with similar values to ours: Expect the very best from each other; Develop a strong work ethic; Respect and appreciate all difference; Include everyone and exclude no one; Listen to and involve everyone; Never give up on each other!
- Resilient and robust, role modelling outstanding teaching and professionalism.
- Substantial executive leadership experience with demonstrable strategic and operational experience across teaching, learning and curriculum, ideally within specialist therapeutic education provisions or specialist schools.
- Proven experience of managing and developing teams, inclusive of coaching and influencing staff to deliver innovative ways of working and teaching.
- Proven skills in operating at a strategic level as a collaborative and supportive member of a senior team, actively engaging in decision making leading to positive pupil progress and business outcomes.
- Experience of driving inclusive education initiatives to support best practice with vulnerable and complex groups.
- Proven skills in coaching & mentoring.
- Commercially astute and solutions focused.
- Proactive and innovative, collaborating with team members in other disciplines, whilst also with the ability to work flexibly and independently.
To Apply
Please complete the formal application form attached below, uploading this as part of the online application system.
TCES is an independent social enterprise, providing specialist therapeutic education based in London supporting exceptional neurodiverse children and young people aged 7 to 19 who have special educational needs and disabilities typically associated with autism, social emotional and mental health needs and associated disorders. Most of them will have experienced multiple placement breakdowns and significant trauma, often resulting in behaviour that challenges. On average pupils will have been excluded from other provisions up to three times before reaching us and had significant periods out of Education.
TCES pupils learn at one of our two schools, at our Create Learning Primary, through our Create in the Community service or within our National Online School; our Create services support our most complex and vulnerable pupils, with highly differentiated and personalised holistic therapeutic education programmes developed for each pupil focusing on development milestones. When they are ready, we aim for pupils to step down from Create into one of our main school, our Sixth Form, or into mainstream provisions.
