Governing Body Adviser

Salary Per annum £29,071-£33,119 (Pro Rata) | Permanent, Part Time | 18 hours per week | term-time only
- Governor Services North Lancashire | Covering Lancaster, Morecambe, Fylde, Wyre and North Preston

In return Lancashire County Council offers a range of benefits, which can be found on LCC Vacancies website.

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The Government has confirmed that local government across Lancashire will be reorganised, with the current 15 councils being replaced by four new unitary councils covering North, South, East and West Lancashire from April 2029.

If you are successful in your application, you will initially join Lancashire County Council. However, as part of the planned transition, your employment will transfer to one of the new unitary councils from April 2029, subject to the implementation of the reorganisation and relevant employment legislation.

Throughout this period, our focus remains on delivering excellent services to our communities. By joining us now, you'll play an important role in shaping the future of local government and helping to build a strong new organisation that will serve residents for years to come.

Please note:

that we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role

This position is part time and term time only. Please note the salary quoted is full time equivalent, the salary received will be paid on a pro-rata basis.

A School Governing Body Advisor to work within Governor Services in the Directorate of Education and Children's Services working 18 hours per week on a term-time only basis covering the North area of Lancashire including Lancaster, Morecambe, Fylde, Wyre and North Preston.

As a school Governing Body Advisor, you will support and advise Volunteer Governors within the Education Sector. The Advisor's key role is to support Governors to fulfil their statutory functions to ensure clarity of vision, ethos and a strategic direction for their school. This valuable and community focused position will assist Governors to be accountable for educational performance, the performance of its employees and for the school's financial performance.

In this integral position, you will be arranging, attending, advising and minuting Governing Body meetings in liaison with the Headteacher and the Chair of Governors as well as providing advice and guidance. So, if you're ready for a flexible, term time only opportunity to work around your commitments then we would love you to apply!

Service Excellence You'll be focused on delivering service excellence to our customers to provide the right advisory support to fulfil our service level agreements whilst ensuring management deliver their key functions - to do this you will become a critical friend to the board who can prompt and ask the right questions at the right time - this will assist Governors in holding schools to account for the actions and decisions which impact children's education including budgetary and more - in this valuable and rewarding role you will arrange, participate and advise at various Governing Body Meetings - your enthusiastic yet professional approach will really contribute to the ethos of each school and will assist in providing the best possible service to each school we support

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