Head of School Development Services

at  Gloucestershire County Council

HEAD OF SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT SERVICES

Date: 9 Jan 2025
Job Location:Gloucester

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

• Job Title: Head of School Development Services
• Job Location: Shire Hall
• Salary: £73,233 - £81,015 per annum
• Hours per Week: 37.00
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Closing Date: 02/02/2025
• Job Requisition Number: 7648
• This post is open to job share

Are you passionate about working to support children and young people to live happy and successful lives, and dedicated to making a difference?
Do you have a track record of delivering effective school development and improvement in education settings and at a local education system level?

ABOUT US:

The Education Directorate sits within the wider Children’s Services directorate alongside Children’s Social Care and Early Help and is comprised of the following service areas:

• Special Educational Needs Service – EHCP statutory caseworker service; the Advisory Teacher Service; the Education Psychology Service; the Specialist Commissioning Team
• Inclusion Service – focused on attendance and access to education, including Section 19 duties and Children Missing Education
• School Development Service – focused on direct support to schools around school development and quality of education, both for maintained schools and as a traded service offer to the whole education system
• Education, Planning and Infrastructure – focused sufficiency - Early Years and school building projects, Home to School Transport, school place planning and admissions
• Early Years Service – focused on supporting and ensuring the quality and sufficiency of early years childcare settings, including the extended entitlements, wraparound care and Breakfast Clubs
• The Virtual School – educational support for children in care
• Post-16 Team – focused on post-16 education, training and into-employment support and SEND post 16 pathways
• Traded Services – the management and development of services offered to educational settings by the council

The Education directorate works closely with services both within the wider Children’s Services and the council’s corporate service areas. We are committed to providing high quality services to children, young people and their families.
Hybrid working arrangements are available for this role, giving the opportunity to work in a way that suits you, balancing the service need and individual choice, with a mix of remote working, visiting education settings and office working.

In return for your hard work, you will receive the following:

• flexible and agile working opportunities
• 30 days annual leave
• option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)
• family friendly benefits to help support you and your family
• career development and qualification opportunities
• supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
• an in-house Occupational Health service Employee discount scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&Cs apply)
• links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network

This is a new role where you will:

• lead the effective delivery of the county council’s statutory and non-statutory school improvement service offer for local authority-maintained schools
• work with system leaders to strengthen the county council’s work with schools and MATs to drive inclusive practice across the local education system
• have oversight of the financial health of local authority-maintained schools and ensure that those in, or at risk of, financial deficit have access to appropriate intervention and support