Succession planning is key to our development journey: we welcome new staff to our schools but we also look to retain our best staff and work with them on their future career aspirations. Throughout the last twenty-five years of my leadership career, I have identified staff with not just the skills and expertise our schools need but also the passion and commitment to our vision and values and supported them to grow. We have established teacher training pathways through the National College and have also partnered with Goldsmiths University to enable us to grow our own teaching staff through the schools direct and apprenticeship routes. 

We equally invest in our support staff and have developed internally a number of staff who have gone on to leadership posts both within and outside of our trust or become specialists in their field. We welcome professionals who want to grow whether they are already established in their careers or new to working in schools and keen to learn. For us, it is all about finding people who share our vision and values and want to participate in our future journey.