Oracy Lead: Primary and Secondary

Oracy Lead: Primary and Secondary

Salary: £45,000 pro rata

Location: Home Based – UK

Closing date: 21 January 2024

Interview: Tuesday 30 January 2024

The role

As the Oracy Lead and key member of the central team at United Learning, you will be responsible for supporting schools and the central curriculum team alike to embed opportunities for high-quality oracy into in lessons and more widely.

You will:

• Work with school improvement teams to assess the quality of oracy provision in our schools, and to provide support to schools to improve provision as required.
• Work alongside the Education with Character and team and Careers Lead to create and organise a wide range of extracurricular oracy opportunities for pupils in our Primary and Secondary academies.
• Work alongside the English team and the PSHE Lead to ensure that opportunities to explicitly teach oracy are embedded coherently into the United Curriculum.
• Provide an expert voice on oracy and keep abreast of relevant research and changes to statutory guidance.
• Lead on, and evaluate the impact of, our new Oracy Framework and strategies in our schools.

This will include:

• Providing ongoing support to schools as they use the Framework to support/align with existing provision.
• Supporting curriculum writers to include purposeful oracy opportunities into new United Curriculum content.
• Supporting subject advisors to evaluate the impact of oracy in their own disciplines.
• Developing materials to support teachers and school leaders, such as webinars and asynchronous materials.
• Work with the Literacy Lead to coordinate a network of Oracy Leads as appropriate from within our schools.
• Build and maintain strategic partnerships with external organisations, as appropriate.

Practicalities

The role will be predominantly home-based, but some travel to our schools and our main office locations in London or Peterborough will also be required from time to time. As such, this role will allow you a large degree of flexibility.

United Learning is committed to encouraging and enabling flexible working opportunities throughout our schools and Central Office, and we will accept applications from those preferring a part-time role. Please state your preference in your application.

There is flexibility around the start date, given the length of notice periods in teaching.

About you

The ideal candidate will have the following experience, attributes and behaviours.

Essential:

• Have extensive experience in leading oracy provision at Primary and/or secondary, including developing and implementing oracy within the curriculum and organising wider opportunities.
• Be familiar with the National Curriculum, particularly the Primary English National Curriculum and its speaking and listening component.
• Have proven experience of working autonomously and delivering at pace to agreed timelines and project plans.
• Be excited to share their knowledge and expertise with a diverse family of schools and be able to travel to schools across the country when required.
• Have outstanding communication skills, with the ability to leverage influence with all levels of the organisation (including headteachers).
• Understand and respect the importance of diverse cultures and faiths within the school, with a commitment to equal opportunities.
• Be aligned with United Learning’s values and embody our ethos of bringing out ‘the best in everyone’.

Desirable:

Be competent in, and be able to align oracy opportunities with, the principles of:

• The Great Teaching Toolkit, Rosenshine’s Principles and/or Teach Like a Champion (Secondary).
• The Kagan Method (Primary).

The recruitment process

The online application form asks for education and employment history and a personal statement. In this statement, please outline your suitability for the role.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview on 24th January Interviews will be held over MS Teams on the afternoon of Tuesday 30th January.

For more information

For a confidential discussion about this role or the process, please contact: Jo.Brennan@unitedlearning.org.uk

United Learning

We are part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.

Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.

As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.

We are working hard to become a more diverse organisation – which is key to our commitment to bringing out the best in everyone. We welcome applications from everyone committed to this ethos and would particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates, who are currently under-represented in the Group as a whole. We always appoint on merit. We are open to discussing flexible working options.

To Apply

Please apply online by clicking on the following link: https://unitedlearning.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/3351768?cid=1567

Where teaching is better shared

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