Personal Development Lead
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 13 Mehefin 2025 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 12 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK3 6EW |
| Cwmni: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7b3dde9f-bdd7-4957-a295-f5043d4dca66 |
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What skills and experience we're looking for
What are we looking for?
1. Coherent Vision and Strategic Oversight: A Personal Development Lead provides strategic direction and ensures a cohesive approach to personal development. Without clear leadership, PSHE, extra curricular, and tutor time can become fragmented or tokenistic. At Lord Grey we firmly believe that the Personal Development curriculum is equally as important as the academic curriculum and the successful candidate will have the support of the Senior Leadership Team in driving this forward. A dedicated lead will ensure alignment with ever-evolving statutory guidance (e.g., DfE and Ofsted frameworks) and the school’s values, promoting a consistent message across all year groups.
2. Impactful PSHE Curriculum: High-quality PSHE education supports students' mental health, relationships, physical wellbeing, and understanding of the wider world. The Personal Development Lead will ensure the curriculum is:
• Sequenced and age-appropriate
• Responsive to local and national safeguarding issues (e.g., consent, online safety, extremism)
• Delivered confidently by staff, with appropriate CPD and resources
• Monitored and evaluated through student voice, lesson drop-ins, and feedback, ensuring it is meaningful and motivational and not just compliant.
3. Purposeful Tutor Time: Tutor time is a key opportunity to build relationships, reinforce values, and deliver personal development in a structured and impactful way. The lead will ensure that tutor programs include:
• Character education and values-based discussions
• Metacognition, study and revision skills
• Weekly themes (e.g., wellbeing, diversity)
• Current affairs and assemblies
Coordinated effectively, tutor time becomes more than just administrative – it supports daily pastoral care and reinforces school culture.
4. Broad and Equitable Extra-Curricular: Enrichment activities provide students with the opportunity to explore interests, develop talents, and gain cultural capital. The Personal Development Lead oversees a rich offer that:
• Is inclusive and accessible to all pupils, especially disadvantaged
• Links to Gatsby Benchmarks and supports personal development and career pathways
• Promotes participation, confidence, and engagement outside of the classroom
• Contributes to the development of our values.
The Personal Development Lead will also evaluate uptake and outcomes to ensure no group is left behind and be keen to access student voice to ensure the offer meets the needs of our students.
5. Empowering Student Leadership
Student leadership helps pupils develop voice, agency, and a sense of responsibility. The Personal Development Lead ensures:
• A structured and tiered approach (e.g: student council)
• Genuine opportunities for students to influence school life and decision-making
• Leadership development through training, mentoring, and public speaking
This not only enhances the individual students but builds a more democratic and inclusive school culture and contributes to the development of strong cultural capital and oracy.
What the school offers its staff
Employee Benefits:
• Teacher & support staff pension schemes
• Continuous Professional development (CPD)
• Training School Alliance
• Networking opportunities
• Specsavers eyecare voucher
• Free Flu vaccine
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Medicash - Health Cash Plan:
• 24/7 GP Appointments & prescription services
• Dental treatment
• Optical care
• Physiotherapy
• Skinvision - skin health tracker
• A range of essential healthcare expenses
• Exclusive discounts on shopping & travel
The Academy is committed to safeguarding children. The successful applicant will require an enhanced DBS check.
Further details about the role
Tove Learning Trust
Tove Learning Trust (TLT) is a highly successful multi-academy Trust with primary, secondary and alternative provision schools across the West Midlands, Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes. We are a cross phase trust providing a high-quality education for over 11,500 children between the ages of 4 and 18. Within our family of schools we have four primaries, nine secondaries and two alternative provision schools.
As an employer of choice, we recognise every colleague is an individual, we value diversity, and work as a team to remove barriers to equity. We know that when you are ‘the best you’, whatever your role is with the Trust, you will transform students’ lives.
The Trust is committed to ensuring that all children achieve as highly as possible and we work hard to offer stimulating environments that enable every learner to progress and flourish. We have a small central team and a committed Board of Trustees that are focused on delivering outstanding outcomes.
We aim to have academies that are excellent communities of learning where children thrive on success.
You will have access to a team of school improvement directors specialising in Maths, English, Science,
Humanities, EYFS and SEND & Inclusion. Our outcomes in the vast majority of our schools exceed national expectations and many of our schools are rated Good or better by OFSTED.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Academy is committed to safeguarding children. The successful applicant will require an enhanced DBS check.
What are we looking for?
1. Coherent Vision and Strategic Oversight: A Personal Development Lead provides strategic direction and ensures a cohesive approach to personal development. Without clear leadership, PSHE, extra curricular, and tutor time can become fragmented or tokenistic. At Lord Grey we firmly believe that the Personal Development curriculum is equally as important as the academic curriculum and the successful candidate will have the support of the Senior Leadership Team in driving this forward. A dedicated lead will ensure alignment with ever-evolving statutory guidance (e.g., DfE and Ofsted frameworks) and the school’s values, promoting a consistent message across all year groups.
2. Impactful PSHE Curriculum: High-quality PSHE education supports students' mental health, relationships, physical wellbeing, and understanding of the wider world. The Personal Development Lead will ensure the curriculum is:
• Sequenced and age-appropriate
• Responsive to local and national safeguarding issues (e.g., consent, online safety, extremism)
• Delivered confidently by staff, with appropriate CPD and resources
• Monitored and evaluated through student voice, lesson drop-ins, and feedback, ensuring it is meaningful and motivational and not just compliant.
3. Purposeful Tutor Time: Tutor time is a key opportunity to build relationships, reinforce values, and deliver personal development in a structured and impactful way. The lead will ensure that tutor programs include:
• Character education and values-based discussions
• Metacognition, study and revision skills
• Weekly themes (e.g., wellbeing, diversity)
• Current affairs and assemblies
Coordinated effectively, tutor time becomes more than just administrative – it supports daily pastoral care and reinforces school culture.
4. Broad and Equitable Extra-Curricular: Enrichment activities provide students with the opportunity to explore interests, develop talents, and gain cultural capital. The Personal Development Lead oversees a rich offer that:
• Is inclusive and accessible to all pupils, especially disadvantaged
• Links to Gatsby Benchmarks and supports personal development and career pathways
• Promotes participation, confidence, and engagement outside of the classroom
• Contributes to the development of our values.
The Personal Development Lead will also evaluate uptake and outcomes to ensure no group is left behind and be keen to access student voice to ensure the offer meets the needs of our students.
5. Empowering Student Leadership
Student leadership helps pupils develop voice, agency, and a sense of responsibility. The Personal Development Lead ensures:
• A structured and tiered approach (e.g: student council)
• Genuine opportunities for students to influence school life and decision-making
• Leadership development through training, mentoring, and public speaking
This not only enhances the individual students but builds a more democratic and inclusive school culture and contributes to the development of strong cultural capital and oracy.
What the school offers its staff
Employee Benefits:
• Teacher & support staff pension schemes
• Continuous Professional development (CPD)
• Training School Alliance
• Networking opportunities
• Specsavers eyecare voucher
• Free Flu vaccine
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Medicash - Health Cash Plan:
• 24/7 GP Appointments & prescription services
• Dental treatment
• Optical care
• Physiotherapy
• Skinvision - skin health tracker
• A range of essential healthcare expenses
• Exclusive discounts on shopping & travel
The Academy is committed to safeguarding children. The successful applicant will require an enhanced DBS check.
Further details about the role
Tove Learning Trust
Tove Learning Trust (TLT) is a highly successful multi-academy Trust with primary, secondary and alternative provision schools across the West Midlands, Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes. We are a cross phase trust providing a high-quality education for over 11,500 children between the ages of 4 and 18. Within our family of schools we have four primaries, nine secondaries and two alternative provision schools.
As an employer of choice, we recognise every colleague is an individual, we value diversity, and work as a team to remove barriers to equity. We know that when you are ‘the best you’, whatever your role is with the Trust, you will transform students’ lives.
The Trust is committed to ensuring that all children achieve as highly as possible and we work hard to offer stimulating environments that enable every learner to progress and flourish. We have a small central team and a committed Board of Trustees that are focused on delivering outstanding outcomes.
We aim to have academies that are excellent communities of learning where children thrive on success.
You will have access to a team of school improvement directors specialising in Maths, English, Science,
Humanities, EYFS and SEND & Inclusion. Our outcomes in the vast majority of our schools exceed national expectations and many of our schools are rated Good or better by OFSTED.
Commitment to safeguarding
The Academy is committed to safeguarding children. The successful applicant will require an enhanced DBS check.