Total 7 Director/C-Level job vacancies in Canterbury, Kent, CT1 1AA

What skills and experience we're looking for

1. Job purpose

As Medway Anglican Schools Trust (MAST) CEO you are responsible for the education of all children in our Trust’s academies. You will lead the Executive Team of the Trust and the Central Team, ensuring the Trust and all its schools continue to be successful over time and sustainable. You will provide high level strategic leadership and management across all aspects of the Trust’s activities. You will ensure that the Trust provides high quality education for all its pupils through the effective and efficient use of resources and people. As a system leader, the CEO represents the Trust with a wide range of stakeholders and partners and enables the Trust to fulfil its Christian and civic responsibilities. You are the Accounting Officer for the Trust, responsible for ensuring the Trust meets its statutory and legal requirements.

2. Ethics and Professional Conduct

As leader of our educational charity you are expected to demonstrate consistently high standards of principled and professional conduct. The CEO should always uphold and demonstrate The Principles of Public Life (The Nolan Principles). The CEO is responsible for upholding Diocesan and public trust in MAST, civic and system leadership, and should maintain high standards of ethics and behaviour. As leader of MAST, our academy communities and the profession, the CEO should serve in the best interests of the Trust’s pupils and communities, conducting themselves in a manner compatible with their influential position in society.

3. CEO Core Responsibilities

MAST is an education charity that runs our schools to give children a better future. We have a single legal and moral purpose: to advance education for the public benefit while maintaining our Christian ethos and delivering our vision. The MAST CEO has specific responsibilities as executive leader of the Trust.

There are six interlinked areas of the CEO’s core responsibilities. These are:

• Strategic leadership - Trust values and vision, culture and strategy
• Quality of Education
• Finance, sustainability and compliance
• People strategy
• Governance and accountability
• System leadership and civic responsibility

Strategic leadership – Trust vision, values, culture, and strategy

• Establish and sustain the Trust’s vision, values, culture, and strategic direction in partnership with the Trust Board
• Provide leadership that enables the Trust to achieve its strategic objectives and secure its future sustainability
• Create a safe, inclusive and positive culture across the Trust and its schools
• Develop operational objectives that are appropriate, deliverable and aligned to securing a sustainable future through the Trust’s strategic direction
• Enable the Trust’s organisational design and operational systems to meet its current and future requirements and manage change effectively

Quality of Education

• Tackle educational inequality, upholding and securing ambitious educational and behavioural standards for all pupils
• Promote further support for the most disadvantaged and those with additional and special educational needs and disabilities within a safe and secure environment
• Enable the Trust to establish and sustain a broad, rich and coherent curriculum entitlement for all pupils, supported by effective curricular leadership and delivered through high quality teaching in all its schools
• Ensure the Trust has high quality, expert teaching in all the Trust’s schools, built on an evidence-informed understanding of effective teaching and how pupils learn
• Ensure that priority areas for improvement are identified and addressed
• Enable the Trust and its schools to engage with appropriate evidence-based strategies for improvement and ensure their effective implementation and impact

Finance, sustainability and compliance

Provide operational leadership, reports and assurance to Board so that they are able to maintain effective oversight and meet their responsibilities:

• Ensure that sound financial management systems are in place, understood by all, adhered to and reviewed
• Prioritise and allocate financial resources appropriately, ensuring efficiency, effectiveness and probity in the use of public funds
• Ensure rigorous approaches to identifying, managing and mitigating risk
• Ensure the long-term sustainability of the Trust and its schools through effective financial and estates management
• Direct the Trust’s activities to achieve the most efficient, effective and sustainable provision of education to the highest quality, prioritising and making the most effective use of the resources available.
• Ensure the organisation complies with all statutory and legal requirements including safeguarding and health and safety
• Ensure that estate management is effective

People strategy

• Lead and effectively manage the activities and performance of the Trust’s executive and central team
• Enable a people strategy that identifies talent, supports and develops all staff and sustains a culture of staff well-being and high staff professionalism
• Ensure the Trust has high quality employment practices that promote equality, diversity and inclusion, including ethical practices of recruitment and retention of staff
• Ensure staff have access to high quality professional development, aligned to balance organisational and individual needs
• Ensure the Trust has a strong talent management and succession planning programmes across all areas of the organisation’s work

Accountability and Governance

• Promote a culture of accountability that is recognised and accepted as an essential element of improvement at all levels and across all aspects of the Trust’s work
• Understand the role of relevant regulatory bodies and ensure the Trust and its schools respond to their requirements
• Understand and welcome the role of effective Trust governance, upholding the obligation to give account and recognising that Trust Boards are ultimately responsible and accountable for the Trust’s work
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with the Trust Board recognising their key role in holding the CEO and executive team to account
• Maintain good communication with the Trust Board, including regular meetings with the Trust Chair
• Maintain a good relationship with local governance groups, attending meetings and providing updates as needed
• Ensure the Trust Board receives quality information in the level of detail needed to make informed decisions and fulfil its functions and legal obligations
• Ensure positive communications that promote the Trust and its work, and present the Trust effectively when dealing with the media

System leadership and civic responsibility

• Promote and enable ways in which the Trust’s schools and their local boards engage meaningfully with their communities and are responsive and accountable to them
• As CEO of an Anglican VA trust, maintain good relationships with the Rochester Diocesan Board of Education; working in partnership to enable our children to flourish, support the local church school communities and Diocese and deliver our vision through our values and Christian ethos
• In line with the Trust’s civic role, work with civic partners and stakeholders in the local area, region and/or nationally to contribute to the Public Good, ensuring the value of the child and coherent public service for children and families
• Foster and engage in the collective leadership of the sector building strong local systems to address disadvantage and improve the quality of education for all pupils
• Exert external influence on behalf of the Trust by active engagement with sector organisations, regulators, policy makers, local and national government, industry and other partners
• Give public assurance of high standards of probity

SPECIAL FACTORS:

Subject to the duration of the need, the special conditions given below apply:

(a) The nature of the work may involve the postholder carrying out work outside of normal working hours.

(b) The postholder may be required to attend, from time to time, training courses, conferences, seminars or other meetings as required by their own training needs and the needs of the service.

(c) Expenses will be paid in accordance with the Local Conditions of Service.

(d) This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS check regarding any previous criminal record.

This job description sets out the duties and responsibilities of the post at the time when it was drawn up. Such duties and responsibilities may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the duties or the level of responsibility entailed. Such variations are a common occurrence and cannot themselves justify a reconsideration of the grading of the post.

MAST and the academies which form part of our trust seek to promote the employment of disabled people and will make any adjustments considered reasonable to the above duties under the terms of the Equality Act 2010 to accommodate a suitable disabled candidate.

Appendix A: Accounting Officer Responsibilities

The Accounting Officer responsibilities are given the Academies Trust Handbook sections 1.31 – 1.38. The designated responsibilities are:

• Give assurance (to Parliament and the public) of high standards of probity in the management of public funds, particularly regularity, propriety and value for money
• Adhering to the Seven Principles of Public Life
• Having oversight of financial transactions (under Trustees’ control, measures to prevent losses or misuse, multi-person operation of accounts and records, accurate accounting records)
• Completing annual statement on regularity, propriety and compliance
• Taking personal responsibility for assuring compliance to the Board
• Advising on Board intent or action if incompatible with the articles, funding agreement or handbook
• Notify the ESFA if they consider the Board is in breach of the articles, funding agreement or handbook

Appendix B: Working with Directors and Members

CEOs work closely with their Trust Board, particularly the Chair. CEOs will recognise the responsibilities and statutory duties of Trustees and that the CEO operates under the oversight and direction of the Board of Trustees. MAST is an Anglican Church VA Trust with Rochester Diocese as a member and the CEO will engage with the Diocese through the diocesan strategic partnership and other activities to deliver our shared vision and enable our communities to flourish.

The Academy Trust Handbook indicates that Directors must comply with the Trust’s charitable objects, with company and charitable law and with their contractual obligations under the funding agreement. As an organisation the Trust has a range of obligations under current legislation and statutory guidance. This includes matters such as safeguarding, health and safety and estates management. The Academy Trust Handbook states that ensuring strong governance in these areas will be a key priority for the Board.

The Academy Trust Handbook indicates that Directors should focus on three core functions:

• ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction
• holding executive leaders to account for the educational performance of the organisation and its pupils, and the performance management of staff
• overseeing and ensuring effective financial performance CEOs will recognise that in fulfilling these core functions Trust Boards are ultimately responsible for approving and monitoring certain aspects of a Trust’s work including the Trust’s vision and strategy.

What the school offers its staff

We offer:

• positive, friendly working environment
• Teachers’ Pension Scheme & Local Government Pension Scheme
• Travel expenses
• Flexible working
• wellbeing support services

Further details about the role

Medway Anglican Schools Trust (MAST) is seeking to appoint a Chief Executive Officer to lead, manage and co-ordinate the operations of the trust, and its academies. The trust currently consists of four schools; two primary schools with nurseries, one small infant school and a three-form entry junior school, but growth plans should see expansion in the future. You will lead and manage the executive team (plus oversight of the central team). You will set the strategic direction of the trust with the directors and support the ongoing operational development of our schools. You will be accounting officer and responsible for ensuring compliance with statutory requirements.

Why MAST?

• We are a Trust whose Christian values are embedded in our work and relationships with our school communities. The entire MAST community is passionate about providing the best education for our children in our rich and diverse school communities so that they flourish.
• MAST embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.
• We value all members of staff alongside professional and supportive staff relationships. We are committed to providing career progression through continuing professional development

We offer:

• positive, friendly working environment
• Teachers’ Pension Scheme & Local Government Pension Scheme
• Travel expenses
• Flexible working
• wellbeing support services

Why you?

• You are an experienced education leader with evidence of systems leadership across more than one school, improving the quality of education, able to take responsibility for the trust’s operations and compliance with regulations.
• You have experience of working at a senior level within a Multi-Academy Trust and have a deep understanding of improving teaching and learning so that all pupils achieve well.

You are committed to career progression for all and can provide evidence of how you have developed leadership at all levels and led impactful school improvement

• You have essential understanding of the Education & Skills Funding Agency regulatory framework for academies. l
• You are highly organised and an effective communicator.
• You have commitment to partnership working across our schools and with external stakeholders.

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Medway Anglican Schools Trust was formed in September 2015 and is a Church of England VA trust, built upon the importance of positive relationships amongst all involved. Our schools retain their own individuality, but the trust is always there to provide advice, guidance and support for each school. Our schools work well together and support one another in raising standards.

Closing date for applications: Noon 2nd December 2024

Interviews to be held: week commencing 9th December 2024

If you are interested in applying for this position, to find out more and download an application form use this link MAST Vacancies and return it to Natalie Hobbs, governance professional by noon on 2nd December 2024.

Due to safer recruitment requirements, CVs will not be accepted. Trust application forms must be completed.

References will be requested for all shortlisted applicants before interview.

In line with KCSIE 2024 guidance, as part of the shortlisting process, the Trust will conduct an online search on shortlisted candidates as part of our due diligence and to share any pertinent information found concerning a candidate's suitability to work with children with the chair of the interview panel to be discussed at the interview stage.

The Trust and its academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The post is subject to a successful Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Check. Pre-employment checks will be undertaken before an appointment is confirmed.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Are you passionate about empowering individuals to thrive and grow within an organisation? Do you excel at crafting innovative talent strategies that transform workplaces into dynamic hubs of development and inclusion? If so, this exciting role could be the next step in your career!

The Role

A leading organisation is searching for a visionary leader to take on the challenge of Chief Talent Officer Reporting directly to senior leadership, you'll be at the forefront of shaping a talent-driven culture, working across recruitment, learning and development, and strategic talent management.

This is more than a traditional HR role - it's your opportunity to redefine how the client attracts, develops, and retains top talent in a competitive landscape.

What You'll Do

• Lead the design and execution of innovative recruitment strategies to attract the best talent.
• Develop and implement forward-thinking learning and development programs, ensuring every team member achieves their full potential.
• Foster a diverse and inclusive environment by embedding these values into every talent initiative.
• Collaborate with leadership to align talent strategies with the organisation's broader objectives.
• Manage and inspire a high-performing team, instilling a shared vision and culture of excellence.

What You'll Bring

• Proven experience in talent acquisition, learning and development, or a similar leadership role.
• A strategic mindset paired with hands-on expertise in managing talent pipelines, succession planning, and employee engagement initiatives.
• A track record of driving diversity and inclusion as core principles within an organisation.
• Outstanding communication skills to influence and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Knowledge of safer recruitment practices

This role offers the unique chance to work with a forward-thinking organisation that values innovation, inclusion, and impact. You'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of its workforce and culture, supported by a collaborative team and access to cutting-edge tools and resources.

What skills and experience we're looking for

Owing to internal movement, we are excited to announce an exceptional opportunity for an experienced, innovative and dedicated individual to join our leadership team as our academy is committed to delivering high quality education and nurturing an inclusive and supportive learning environment.

As the Assistant Principal/Director of Sixth Form, you will play a pivotal role in leading and managing our sixth form, ensuring our students are supporting socially, academically and personally. You will drive strategic initiatives to enhance student outcomes and foster a culture of high aspirations and success.

Job Purpose

• To lead and manage the task of creating and maintaining conditions in which the students can reach the highest educational standards at the Academy through the delivery of the Academy Improvement Plan and creating and maintaining an ethos which brings out the best in staff and students across the Academy to ensure continuous improvement.
• To contribute to the overall leadership and management of the Academy and undertake any professional duties that the Principal reasonably delegates.
• To support actively the vision, ethos, culture and policies of the Academy and to take corporate responsibility for delivering this vision.
• To be responsible for the academic progress and personal development of all students and work to identified key performance indicators in this regard, with responsibility for sixth form students.
• To provide information, guidance and administrative support to students, colleagues and other stakeholders on all aspects of the IB programmes.

To be responsible for coordination of IB.

• To raise standards at the Academy through the coordination of all activities linked to the IB programmes.
• To lead in areas of core responsibility, as designated and agreed with the Principal.
• To work to the professional duties for school leaders as set out in the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document.

What the school offers its staff

We offer:

• A valuable pension package
• Fitness suite and sports facilities
• Local authority rewards scheme
• E platform/digital library
• Staff car park including EV charging station

Commitment to safeguarding

The Skinners’ Kent Academy Trust is an equal opportunities employer, committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants are subject to an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check and satisfactory employment references.

Please review the Supporting Documents section to access the full Job Description and Person Specification. If you have further queries please do not hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details at the top the page. Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability *Please note that the set Interview Date has been added as guidance and may be subject to change.

The Breast Imaging Radiology team in East Kent has a longstanding reputation for excellence in breast screening and symptomatic breast services. The Breast Screening service started in Canterbury in 1989 a year after the introduction of the National NHS Breast Screening programme in the UK. We celebrated 30 years of outstanding service in 2019.


The unit is based at Kent and Canterbury Hospital and also administers screening services for Kent and Medway. The management team includes the Breast Screening Programme manager, Deputy Programme Manager, Principal Mammographer and Office manager, and are supported by an administrative team of staff. Integral to the delivery of the symptomatic breast service will be the collaboration between the general radiology management and clinical lead.

The Director of Breast Screening is responsible for leadership, management, performance, quality, governance and overall accountability for the safe and effective provision of the local breast screening service.


The Director of Breast Screening needs to provide a compassionate behavioural role model with integrity and honesty to lead the breast screening service. It is vital that the post holder be able to communicate highly effectively and apply professional expertise and sensitivity in relationship building, to promote teamwork in an emotionally intelligent, compassionate and mature way. They should be able to analyse issues and take the initiative to innovate and make changes positively while inspiring and developing others in the team.


The leadership role is about establishing a culture where people and teams are motivated to be constructively self-critical in the pursuit of improved standards of service and outcomes for patients. Effective communication is crucial to ensure the service reaches its goals and to foster good working relationships between the director, the senior leadership team and across the service. The director retains accountability for the leadership of the service.

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with three acute hospitals and community sites serving a local population of around 700,000. We also provide specialist services for Kent and Medway.


We’re on an exciting journey of transformation. With a new Medical School at the centre of our community, a focus on research, clinical leadership and making our trust a rewarding and friendly place to work, there’s never been a better time to join us.

Through our Family First scheme we pledge to find roles for partners of consultants offered a substantive post - For more information please visit https://www.ekhuft.nhs.uk/careers/family-first-scheme/

We also offer removal expenses (substantive positions), up to 32 days’ annual leave and active support for study, quality improvement and patient safety work as part of our ‘We care’ improvement journey, and medical education and research.



Please review the Supporting Documents section to access the full Job Description and Person Specification. If you have further queries please do not hesitate to contact the line manager using the contact details at the top the page.

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability

*Please note that the set Interview Date has been added as guidance and may be subject to change.


This advert closes on Sunday 1 Dec 2024

The NHS is changing. With a growing emphasis on community-based care there’s never been a better time to join us.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, forward thinking and passionate Deputy Chief Nurse to join our professional team. The Deputy Chief Nurse will work as part of the senior Professional nursing team and lead on portfolio areas on behalf of the Chief Nursing Officer.

The post holder will deputise for all aspects of the Chief Nurse portfolio and is an excellent opportunity for a nurse who has ambitions to become a Chief Nurse. This post is for someone who is able to manage a demanding and busy portfolio, who has the confidence to work autonomously and role models compassionate Leadership.

The Deputy Chief Nurse will provide strong, visible and professional leadership and ensure that the pillars of quality including patient safety, patient experience and clinical effectiveness as well as the delivery of high-quality care remain central to our strategic direction and decision making. If this sounds like you then we would love to hear from you.

Could you use your skills and experience to support the NHS to deliver great patient care? Great patient care needs great people to support clinical teams. That’s where you come in.

We’re always looking for enthusiastic, responsive, and adaptable people to join our outstanding trust. This role is an important one as you’ll be using your knowledge, experience and expertise to provide procurement support to our hard-working frontline NHS teams.

We put patients first and we expect all of our colleagues to do the same, so although NHS experience isn’t a requirement for this role you’ll need to share our passion for delivering excellent patient care and keep that passion at the forefront of your professional activity at all times.

The challenges come thick and fast in this role but you’ll know that your input is contributing to the excellent experience our patients and service users have every day.

Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values Compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission

The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

See where you can go with KCHFT career pathways

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

Find out more about the community difference here.

Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.

It is important to us that all our staff are aligned to our Values and in particular the behaviours we expect from KCHFT managers. With this in mind as part of the selection process for this position you will be asked to complete two other activities in addition to the competency-based interview that you will invited to. This extended selection process is designed to assess your management style and the specific details of the exercises will be given if you are successfully shortlisted. The provisional date of the selection event is 16th December 2024, although this may be subject to change.


This advert closes on Sunday 1 Dec 2024

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate. Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert. We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job. At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve. Find out more about the community differencehere. Good luck! We cant wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity. It is important to us that all our staff are aligned to our Values and in particular the behaviours we expect from KCHFT managers. With this in mind as part of the selection process for this position you will be asked to complete two other activities in addition to the competency-based interview that you will invited to. This extended selection process is designed to assess your management style and the specific details of the exercises will be given if you are successfully shortlisted. The provisional date of the selection event is 16th December 2024, although this may be subject to change.