Why Join Us?

A critical benefit of joining or working with a thriving MAT is to raise student attainment, share the burden of business operations, centralise decision-making and gain strong, professional leadership and governance.

The benefits of being part of The Special Partnership Trust:

• Stronger Leadership: ​​​​​School leaders and teachers can combine their knowledge and planning abilities to work on challenges and solutions together.
• Strategic Management: Governors and trustees can draw on each other’s experience to formulate strategic approaches.
• Shared Staffing: Human resources within schools can work across multiple sites, particularly in a localised Trust. This can appease the recruitment challenges and offer more varied opportunities to staff.
• Specialist Resources: With combined funding in a Trust, specialist knowledge can be bought in many different areas, spanning academic, extracurricular and operational functions.
• Professional Development: This can be organised across multiple schools, upskilling as many individuals as possible per session.
• Economies of Scale: A Trust is able to purchase as a whole, thereby achieving economies of scale not achievable by schools as individuals. With ever tightening budgets, this can help schools maintain and build upon the resources and standards they aspire to.
• Shared Accountability: As a Trust represents multiple schools, it is in its interest to raise the profile of each, in line with rising expectations.

Staff Benefits

As well as your salary, there are other benefits that form part of your total reward:

• 37 days paid holiday (including bank holidays) from start of employment with the Trust.
• Access to Extra Special, the Trust's employee benefits and perks hub, including hundreds of retailer discounts and wellbeing portal.
• SimplyHealth Plan – supporting our employees, and their families, with health care costs.
• Employees Assistance Programme.
• Discounts on new O2 phone contracts.
• Discounted gym memberships with Better Leisure.
• Winter Flu Vaccine Reimbursement (via SimplyHealth).
• Bike 2 Work Scheme.
• Eye Test Reimbursements via Pay and Claim or Vouchers for Specsavers.
• First Aid & Fire Warden Allowances.
• Long Service Vouchers - £100 after 10 years’ service, £200 after 20 years’ service.

Please see below for details of our vacancies.