At Empower Trust the Director of Training and Partnerships role involves leading the development and implementation of training strategies, building partnerships with external organisations, overseeing trust wide staff development, ensuring quality assurance, promoting innovation and best practices, contributing to strategic planning and facilitating communication and collaboration among stakeholders. The role helps to foster excellence, collaboration and innovation within the trust to benefit students, staff and the community.
The Strategic Lead for Safeguarding is responsible for overseeing and coordinating all aspects of safeguarding policies and practices across the Empower Trust, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements and fostering a safe environment for students and staff.
Using national legislation and best practices, the Strategic Lead for Safeguarding develops and updates safeguarding policies, providing support to Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs), monitors safeguarding practices through audits and quality assurance and collaborates with external agencies to enhance safeguarding provision.
Regular liaison with the safeguarding trustee ensures a commitment to the welfare and protection of all children within the trust.
My Impact:
- Empowered 100 teachers through the NPQLT Flex Programme, significantly enhancing teaching and learning consistency across the trust through our FAME (Frame It, Assess It, Model It, Explore It) approach.
- Strengthened safeguarding across the trust by implementing a robust safeguarding strategy, quality assurance systems, CPOMS guidance and DSL networks, ensuring every child’s welfare is effectively prioritised.