Salary: £58,400-£62,634 per annum
Grade: Soulbury 13-16 + 3 SPA
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time
Location: Primarily based at North Yorkshire Council, County Hall, Northallerton - with some home working and county-wide travel expected
Start Date: 1st September 2025
Do you have a strong, successful track record in education?
We are looking for a Senior Education Adviser to join our school improvement team. This is a key role in the Council’s school improvement service and offers an exciting opportunity to work with schools and settings across North Yorkshire, from towns and rural communities to schools on the coast. You will work with a wide variety of schools and settings including Local Authority maintained schools and academies.
The post holder will support North Yorkshire Council’s school improvement strategy, which contributes significantly to the self-improving school system locally and centres on raising achievement, promoting inclusion and diminishing differences between vulnerable groups. You will have substantial experience as a serving school or system leader and a successful track record in delivering strong and sustained school improvement. Experience of leading in a secondary context is desirable.
You will have the knowledge, skills, experience and credibility to:
· influence, inspire and support others so that all children and young people can achieve their best
· build on the success of early years settings and schools in North Yorkshire
· challenge underperformance where it exists, and secure plans for improvement
· develop collaboration and partnerships between settings, schools, stakeholders and system partners
If you are interested in this post and would like to become a part of an authority with a strong track record and a relentless focus on delivery and performance, we would welcome your application. If appointed, you will work in partnership with headteachers, school leaders, advisers from North Yorkshire’s school improvement service and colleagues from across the Council’s wider Children and Young People’s Service directorate. The work is fast paced, varied and hugely rewarding.
We understand the importance of workforce development and as such, you will be supported through regular continuing professional development opportunities to ensure you are well equipped with the knowledge and skills to build positive professional relationships with different stakeholders and to provide effective monitoring, challenge and support to schools and settings that results in positive outcomes for children and young people.
As a council we are committed to encouraging flexible working for our employees, including the use of modern technologies to support agile ways of working where appropriate.
Contact us
We welcome an informal discussion if you have any questions.
Please contact Louise Wilson (AD Education and Skills/Head of School Improvement) by emailing louise.wilson@northyorks.gov.uk
Thank you and we look forward to exploring your interest further.
Key documents
Key dates
Closing date: 11th May 2025
Interview date: w/c 19th May 2025
Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure is required for appointment to this post.
NYC are committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies.
We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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North Yorkshire Councils’ purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other’s contributions; we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.
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