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Job Title: Quality of Education Co-ordinator
Location: Wetheringsett Manor School, Suffolk, IP14 5QX
Salary: 45,000 per annum (not pro rata)
Hours: 40 hours per week | Monday to Friday | 8:00am - 4:00pm
Contract: Permanent | Term Time Only
Start: April 2026
UK applicants only - this role does not offer sponsorship
Are you passionate about ensuring every child reaches their full potential? Wetheringsett Manor School is seeking an ambitious, strategic, and compassionate Quality of Education Co-ordinator to join our leadership team. In this role, you will play a central part in shaping and maintaining high standards of teaching, learning, and assessment across the school, ensuring every pupil benefits from a stimulating, inclusive, and outcomes-focused education.
About the Role
As our Quality of Education Co-ordinator, you will lead the development, monitoring, and evaluation of the curriculum, assessment, and intervention strategies across all key stages. Working closely with the Senior Leadership Team, you will oversee pupil progress, support staff development, and ensure teaching approaches meet the diverse needs of our students. You will also maintain a teaching presence where required, oversee external and internal reporting, and contribute to curriculum enrichment initiatives such as careers, work experience, and educational visits. This is an exciting opportunity to influence school-wide improvement, champion inclusion, and ensure every learner thrives academically, socially, and personally.
Key Responsibilities

• Monitor and develop the school's curriculum and assessment systems to ensure meaningful progression for all pupils
• Work with middle leaders and SLT to identify priorities for curriculum development, inclusion, and teaching quality
• Observe teaching and learning, providing feedback and guidance to improve practice
• Analyse assessment data and provide termly reports on pupil progress and outcomes
• Support the professional development of staff through CPD and mentoring in curriculum delivery
• Oversee and support baseline testing, ECT progression, and target-setting processes
• Coordinate extra-curricular learning opportunities, including work experience and educational visits, as relevant
• Maintain teaching capacity across key stages as required and support exam and access arrangements

Experience & Qualifications
Essential:

• Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
• Full UK Driving Licence

Desirable:

• Professional qualification in education leadership (e.g., NPQSL, NPQML, or equivalent)
• Extensive and successful experience as a middle leader or in an extended leadership role
• Experience of faculty or subject management in a variety of settings
• Proven experience liaising successfully with local authorities and professional organisations

What We're Looking For
The ideal candidate is an experienced educator with a strong understanding of curriculum design, assessment, and inclusion. You will be highly organised, collaborative, and committed to improving outcomes for all pupils. Previous experience in specialist, PRU, or alternative provision settings is highly desirable.
If you're ready to shape a positive future for young people and lead with empathy, we'd love to hear from you. This is more than a role-it's a chance to truly change lives every single day.
About the School
Wetheringsett Manor School is a new independent day SEMH School for up to 100 pupils aged 7-18. Our dedicated team work together to ensure successful outcomes for pupils who often arrive at the school with a troubled view of education and life.
Wetheringsett Manor School has gone through significant refurbishment and is based in Suffolk, East Anglia and opened to pupils in November 2020. The Manor House is located in 17 acres of parkland with wooded boundaries and sits on the edge of the village of Wetheringsett. The accommodation also provides several other buildings including a converted stable block, a cottage and two industrial units.
We pride ourselves in steering pupils in the right direction, nurturing aspiration to progress them both academically and socially to encourage them to take pride in their achievements. Socially, we build con?dence in our students, so they are able to have a greater understanding of the wider community in which they live.
We are part of Acorn Education and can offer plenty of challenges along with a wide range of opportunities to develop your career. Acorn Education is the UK's leading provider of specialist education for children and young people with special educational needs. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in creating and delivering innovative approaches that achieve measurable outcomes for those in our care.
We are really proud to say that in 2025, Outcomes First Group were officially certified as a 'Great Place to Work' for the sixth year running.
Why join Acorn Education?
We place the outcomes of the pupils and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you'll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.
We are committed to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and young people. All applicants will be subject to social media checks and successful applicants to a fully enhanced DBS.
Benefits
Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you'll get an exceptional reward package including:

• Life Assurance
• Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
• "Your Wellbeing Matters" - access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that's right for you, including:

• A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
• 100's of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Electric Car Purchase Scheme
• Critical illness cover
• Family Growth Support - inclusive benefits package covering enhanced maternity and paternity leave, along with paid fertility treatment support.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
*You'll work 80% of your contractual hours for 100% of your pay, giving you more time to do the things that make you happy. 4DWW is subject to successful completion of probation and is not a contractual benefit
Outcomes First Group is committed to carrying out a fair, thorough and efficient recruitment process in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education. Whilst we aim to keep applicants informed throughout, Outcomes First Group does not accept liability for any loss of earnings or other associated costs incurred by applicants as a result of delays or changes in the compliance process. All stages of the compliance process are subject to necessary safeguarding checks and compliance with statutory requirements, which may affect timescales.
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