Witherslack Group

Regional Director

Location
Walsall, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
1/17/2025
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Description
Salary: Circa £90,000

Please note, this role will require frequent travel to our schools across our central region (Yorkshire and Midlands).

Those Huge Small Victories

This role demands a combination of educational leadership, and strategic planning skills, alongside a strong commitment to the welfare and development of children with special educational needs.

As a Regional Director at Witherslack Group you will focus on quality, inspire and support your school teams to ensure the best outcomes for our children and young people. We are focused on providing the highest possible standards and developing encouraging environments where our children and young people can thrive. Our teams are fulfilled by the idea of making even the smallest positive changes in our young people, we call these huge, small victories.

Get Out What You Put In

This is a key role with a clear focus on, quality and providing strong leadership to our Head Teachers. By building strong relationships with colleagues across our organisation, you’ll ensure an integrated approach between care, education and therapeutic teams, making sure everyone is working towards the same goal of achieving the best possible outcomes for our children and young people. You will also work alongside other key stakeholders such as Local Authorities, Social Workers, parents/carers.

Requirements

You will assist Head teachers to oversee day-to-day operations, ensure adherence to Independent School Standards and regulatory requirements as well as:

  • Assist Head teachers to develop and implement strategic goals to ensure the growth and success of each school
  • Ensure your schools deliver high-quality education and care for children with special educational needs
  • Monitor academic performance, pupil behaviour and welfare, safeguarding and staff wellbeing
  • Lead quality assurance processes, including school inspections and compliance checks
  • Provide regular reports to senior management on school performance, risks, and achievements
  • Oversee the delivery of quality management systems, school improvement plans, sharing of best practice.

What We Do For You

We know you are going to do great things. For your hard work and commitment, we reward you with the best salary and benefits package in the education sector. With us, you will get to bring learning to life and make a genuine difference to the lives of our young people – plus you will get:

  • Competitive salary of circa 90k
  • Company car
  • Bonuses: Long-term incentive plan which can equate to 30% of salary each year
  • Teacher’s Pension Scheme (TPS) or Witherslack Group Pension (up to 5% contributory pension)
  • Training: A full induction and on the job training
  • Holiday: You will work hard at the Witherslack Group, so you will be rewarded with 40 days holiday including bank holidays
  • Flexible benefits: meaning you can increase/decrease benefits such as life insurance – check out our benefits here
  • Wellbeing: a host of wellbeing tools and advice including employee assistance
  • Medical cover: you will be eligible for BUPA healthcare and a health scheme covering dental and eye care
  • Beautiful working environments with the very best facilities – check out our schools here
  • A recommend a friend scheme that offers a £1,000 bonus every time

Bring Your Whole-self To Work

Our young people come from all walks of life, diverse backgrounds and with different needs – and our workforce reflects that diversity, so that our teams can engage, encourage and inspire our young people to be themselves. We are looking for:

  • Experience of multi-site management
  • Well versed in the Ofsted inspection framework and Independent School’s Standards (ISS)
  • Knowledge of SEN education and the SEN code of practice

Interested in joining us?

Our young people deserve the best possible future and we feel the same about our teams. You deserve to have the career you want, with a purpose-led employer, in an environment that allows you to be yourself.

The Witherslack Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its young people. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check (we will cover the cost) and an online search. We are an equal opportunities employer welcoming applications from all sections of the community.

For a full job description and person specification, please click here.

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