Vacancies
Senior IT technician
Start date: As soon as possible
Salary: Starting at NJC scale SO2, point 26 (FTE £38,934 per annum)
Vanguard Learning Trust wishes to employ an enthusiastic and proactive senior IT technician who will be a key member of the Trust’s support staff team. Our new senior IT technician will embrace our Trust’s vision to engender collective responsibility across the Trust and will support our schools and the central team with this ambition. Our new senior IT technician must have an understanding of Google for Education applications while a background in IT as well experience of working in a school environment are highly desirable. The successful candidate will be based at Ruislip High School. It is important to state, however, that they will have a mobility clause which means that they will also be required to work at any of the Trust’s schools on occasion.
The Trust aims to continue its expansion of schools over the next five years. The newly centralised IT function will play a key role in ensuring that the Trust has the capacity for expansion. Our new senior IT technician will become part of that team, focussing on the interoperability of software and automation of data whilst acting as a first line of defence in our cyber security strategy.
Why work for Vanguard Learning Trust?
Vanguard Learning Trust is a cross-phase Trust in the London Borough of Hillingdon. Our Trust currently has five schools: Field End Junior School, Hermitage Primary School, Ruislip High School, Ryefield Primary School and Vyners School. Oak Farm Primary School is an associate member of the Trust. The successful candidate will be provided with professional development opportunities and will play a key role in ensuring that our Trust is an employer of choice.
An application form and more information about the role can be found in the links below:
Applications should be returned to:recruitment@vlt.org.uk
In compliance with safer recruitment guidelines, CVs will not be accepted.
CLOSING DATE: 10.00am on Monday 18th November 2024
INTERVIEWS: Friday 22nd November 2024
Early applications will be considered and may be offered an interview before the closing date.
Vanguard Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all those working at the Trust to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020). This means that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
Vanguard Learning Trust is an equal opportunities employer.
Under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English.
Inclusion-lead trustee
Vanguard Learning Trust is looking for an inclusion-lead trustee; this is an exciting opportunity for an individual who is keen to take on a voluntary role and embrace the challenge of supporting the development of a Trust-wide approach to inclusion, in particular a collective focus on professional development, assurance work and sharing best practice.
We are looking for an individual who will embrace our vision of outstanding, inclusive education and has the knowledge and expertise to lead on governance in relation to the effectiveness of the provision for students that are identified with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and those from a disadvantaged background. We are engendering collective responsibility across the Trust and the inclusion-lead trustee will provide governance oversight for the board of trustees and be instrumental with the establishment of an inclusion forum following the successful implementation of the Trust’s safeguarding one. The Trust’s central education team will take the lead on the arrangements; the inclusion-lead trustee will be expected to chair the forum, providing support and challenge in the governance role of being a ‘critical friend’.
Why volunteer for Vanguard Learning Trust?
Vanguard Learning Trust is a cross-phase multi-academy trust in the London Borough of Hillingdon. It was established in February 2015 and currently has five schools: Field End Junior School, Hermitage Primary School, Ruislip High School, Ryefield Primary School and Vyners School. The Trust employs over 500 staff and has a population of circa 4000 students.
Individuals who are interested in applying for this exciting opportunity can complete an expression of interest form (see link below) and send it to the Trust’s executive assistant, Emma Jordan, at vltgovernance@vlt.org.uk.