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The Milton Keynes School Improvement Service are looking for a skilled and motivated Improvement Partner who cares about positive collaboration and exploring change to join their friendly and well-respected team.

We work as part of the wider Education Outcomes service and are committed to ensuring the quality of education provision across Milton Keynes supports children and young people to achieve the very best outcomes.

Colleagues are well supported with excellent career development and training opportunities, as well as health and wellbeing initiatives. Our benefits package includes an enhanced pension at 18.8% and generous holiday allowance starting at 28 days.

This role can be full or part time and is offered on a fixed term basis until December 2024.

Please contact Alison Talbot (Principal Officer for Education Outcomes) for an informal chat about the role on 07973 790147 or at [email protected].

The interview/selection day is 28 September.

• Challenging all schools, settings, and services to be outstanding, enabling them to take the lead in driving up standards and only intervening when outcomes are not good enough or where schools and settings are unable to help each other improve.
• Developing, delivering, and maintaining effective services and interventions that enable children and young people who face barriers to successfully overcome them and prevent the most vulnerable children and young people from experiencing additional difficulties: preventing them from suffering significant harm.
• Developing and maintaining positive relationships with all partners that support strong local partnerships.
• Ensuring compliance with relevant statutory duties.
• Ensuring high standards of professional conduct.
• Keeping abreast of current education legislation and initiatives.

• We are seeking applicants who are flexible and self-motivated: ones that can work collaboratively with a range of schools/settings and agencies to influence meaningful, positive, and sustainable change.

We are looking for candidates with the following:

• Qualified Teacher Status.
• A relevant professional qualification at Level 6 (degree) or above (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications).
• Substantial and successful experience as a senior leader in schools (or experience of local authority school improvement).

An enhanced DBS check will be required.

Milton Keynes is a diverse, welcoming, and expanding place, built on smart ideas with even bigger plans for the future. We have world class attractions, beautiful open spaces, and a great standard of living.

Milton Keynes City Council is one of the largest employers in the region, making a difference every day for local people. We’re responsible for all local government services in MK including education, housing, highways, and social services - around 240 services in all.

Our values are to be dedicated, respectful, and collaborative. If this sounds like you, join us for a stimulating and fulfilling career measured on results, and a rewarding work-life balance.

We are really proud of the benefits we are able to offer our staff here at Milton Keynes City Council, including:-

• Local Government Pension Scheme, excellent pension scheme widely regarded as one of the best available.
• 28 days annual leave per year in addition to statutory and public holidays, rising to 32 days after 5 years.
• Holiday Purchase Scheme.
• Our Professional Development Centre provides access to courses such as in-house management development programmes endorsed by the Institute of Leadership, coaching and mentoring and access to our Smarter Learning portal
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Health Cashplan.
• MK Advantage benefits package – a range of savings on a wide range of retail, leisure and entertainment products and services such as Pizza Express, M&S, B&Q, John Lewis and Arriva Travel.
• Blue Light Card - Employees working within Social Care can qualify for a range of discounts from national retailers to local businesses in a wide range of categories including holidays, cars, days out, fashion, gifts, insurance, phones and much more!
• SmartGo – Aimed at encouraging low-carbon transport and healthy lifestyle with discounted travel e.g. Halfords, Arriva, Europcar, National Railcards and Stagecoach.
• Homebuy Scheme (for eligible roles).
• Smarter working which provides the opportunity to work from various locations including from home for a proportion of your role (subject to business needs).
• A full range of family friendly policies including enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity entitlements.
• Childcare Subsidy.