Governor - Local Governing Body - Fixed Term

Endeavour MAT

• Ref:KCC-F51-65-S
• Posted:06/03/2024
• Pay:Voluntary
• Start Date:Immediate
• App Close Date:15/04/2024 at 09:00
• Interviews:TBA

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Role Description

School governors are one of the largest volunteer forces in the UK. They provide schools with strategic leadership and accountability for educational and financial performance:

The three core functions of governance are to:

• Ensure clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction o This means that you need to make sure your school has a clear idea of what it wants to achieve, and a plan for how to achieve it. o Your role is to help set and embed your school’s vision, ethos and strategy, and use these to monitor how your school is doing

•Hold leaders to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils, and the effective and efficient performance management of staff o This means you need to make sure that school leaders are using their professional judgement properly and managing the performance of staff and pupils effectively o You also need to make sure that the information you get from your school leaders is accurate

• Oversee the financial performance of the school and make sure money is well spent o Your role is to monitor your school’s finances and make sure the school is achieving value for money o You need to be sure that public money is spent correctly in the best interests of your pupils

Principal Responsibilities & Duties as part of the LGB

• Develop and embed the school’s vision, ethos and strategy

• Support the School to embed the Trust’s vision

• Establish a culture of high educational standards, which promotes staff and pupil wellbeing

• Make sure all pupils have access to a broad and balanced curriculum

• Monitor school improvement

• Monitor provision for all pupil groups including those with SEND (Special Educational Needs and     Disabilities) and those in receipt of Pupil Premium Funding

• Monitor educational performance, using a range of data sources

• Ensure stakeholders (parents, pupils, staff and the local community) are informed and consulted as appropriate

• Scrutinise the School’s budget ahead of approval by the board of Trustees

• Approve and review policies, and hold staff to account for their implementation

• Ensure the School is compliant with legal requirements, including that statutory policies and documents are in place

• Monitor and evaluate the school’s financial performance

• Contribute to the performance management of the Head Teacher

• Be a source of challenge and support to the Head Teacher • Monitor and evaluate the school’s staffing structure

• Monitor health and safety in the school • Provide information and reports to the board of Trustee

Information about the trust

Thank you for taking the time to consider this role.

At Endeavour MAT we celebrate the differences between our family of schools and want them all to continue to improve and we pride ourselves on setting consistently high expectations, securing outstanding outcomes and delivering exceptional standards of teaching and learning for all.

Exam results are important, but we go further, helping our students, staff and schools to thrive and to be remarkable. Our culture of working together means that we can achieve more collectively than we could alone, aiming to nurture a balance between autonomy and collaboration.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Geraldine Brampah
• Address:Wilmington Grange,
  Parsons Lane,
  Wilmington,
  Kent,
  DA2 7BB
• Telephone: (01322) 250285
• Email: recruitment@endeavour-mat.co.uk

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