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Location

Tamworth, Staffordshire | United Kingdom

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Job description

New roles within the ATLP's governance network - redefining governance at the local school and trust-wide levels

What will you be doing?

The Arthur Terry Learning Partnership is seeking to appoint four dedicated, self-motivated and talented advocates for each of its 21 schools within the Trust. Each individual will have specific responsibilities in one of the following areas: Safeguarding, Vulnerable Children, Community engagement, Support and Challenge.

The Vulnerable Children Advocate will:

• Work with one school, or across a group of schools to give assurance for the Board of Trustees: 'To what extent is the vulnerable children strategy impacting positively on the school's community'.
• Champion a focus on the effective support of SEND, LAC and disadvantaged children & young people.
• Meet with the school on at least a twice-termly basis to develop an understanding of what barriers to learning are in the local context & feed back into governance decision making processes.
• Contribute what they know about broader equality & diversity issues in the local area to ensure the ATLP’s intelligence is robust with identifying and responding to key local issues & commentary.
• Provide a strong, local voice in support, challenge & guidance given to the Board.
• Act as eyes and ears at a local level to monitor progress in eradicating the gap between disadvantaged & non-disadvantaged students.
• Ensure continuation of proactive engagement with parents and carers of vulnerable and disadvantaged children at the ATLP schools to break down barriers.
• Meet termly with other vulnerable children advocates, the Trust Lead for Vulnerable Children and a Trustee representative to discuss ongoing work, identify themes and review the impact of the strategy across the Trust.
• Provide strong quality assurance for the ATLP schools. 

What are we looking for?

• A commitment to maintaining the ethos and values of the ATLP to work to ensure that all ATLP schools can meet the needs of their communities
• A commitment to high standards of probity and the ability to operate in accordance with the ATLP Governance Handbook, Code of Conduct, the Nolan Principles and legislative requirements
• Strong verbal & written communication skills
• Relationship building skills
• Awareness of local community interests and objectives
• Experience/ability to work in an advisory role within a framework of collective decision-making in the best interests of a school/s and Trust
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• A commitment to equality and diversity

What difference will you make?

In joining the ATLP as an Advocate, you may liaise and directly represent a single school, or a group of schools. Each school in the ATLP is unique and serves a distinct community. Advocates in each role will come together regularly in the form of advocate committees, where each advocate will represent the unique voice of their school/s and communities with trustees and executives to be included and considered in decision-making processes and forums. This is a shift away from traditional local governance in schools, and seeks to help the ATLP retain a balance of strong community ethos and a proactive engagement with local voice alongside the ATLP organisational identity.

Causes

• Children / families
• Education

Organisation type: 

Educational body

The Arthur Terry Learning Partnership (ATLP) believes that every child has the right to be a powerful learner. Our schools are connected by a strong moral commitment to provide accessible,...

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