TILT - Key Persons
Alex is the Chief Finance Officer (CFO)) at the Skills for Life Trust. Alex joined the Skills for Life Trust in January 2020 from a neighbouring Multi Academy Trust in Medway, where he held the position of Financial Controller.
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- Finance Officer
- Trust Finance Officer
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Deputy Chief Executive Officer
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- HR Manager
- Trust HR Manager
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- Head of School
- Head of School - Sunny Bank Primary School
I am the founder of the Society of Emotional Intelligence International UK & Europe and Founder of Wilson Hinds Consulting Ltd. I am a Certified Emotional Intelligence Coach & Leadership Consultant withs over 25 years' experience working within large corporate organisations; bringing together skills across Human Resource Management and Development, IT systems and transformational change. Along with this, I have 10 years' experience within two of the largest merged NHS Trusts in UK and Europe, bringing with a wealth of knowledge and experience in transformational change, staff engagement and patient experience, as well as having international healthcare experience in the Middle East and currently sit on the board of a community healthcare Trust in London.
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- Director of Safeguarding
- Family Liaison Officer
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- Head of School
- Head of School - Halfway Houses Primary School
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- Head of School - Minster in Sheppey Primary School
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- Head of School - Minster in Sheppey Primary School
My full name is Gary Raymond Jeffery, 55 years of age and a real local, having lived on the Isle of Sheppey for all of those years, progressing through the then Primary (Rose Street), Middle (St Georges C E) and the Sheppey Comprehensive educational structure. I am passionate about improving life chances for students. I currently have a Sole Trader Business involved in Garden Maintenance, which has been in operation for a number of years, mainly servicing and transforming domestic and commercial areas in the Sheppey and Sittingbourne area. Prior to this I spent many years in operational management within a large company, including several years in a General Manager role reporting to the Group CEO, driving a direct report operational team to success on a variety of fronts - Finance, Health and Safety, Operations, Service and Team Performance. This role was national, culminating with responsibility for a large annual budget and a high number of staff. I am of analytical nature, like attention to detail and am of a non-personalised direct nature, striving and demanding of success, good performance and standards. Whilst truth is in the eye of the receiver, I am of the belief that I am also of an approachable, understanding and supporting nature, and believe the above mix of business exposure, personal attributes and local interest will support TILT well.
Educated at Anglia Ruskin University; Howard completed his four year BEd (Hons) in maths before entering the teaching profession in Harlow, Essex. His first school was a tough council school in the heart of Harlow, a deprived area with high social needs. Rising quickly to be key stage manager for the infant department, he went on to teach in a private school in Hertfordshire catering from nursery to eighteen. Here he studied for his first post graduate qualification in Special Educational Needs with a focus on children's literature and a study of ‘why do boys fail?' Moving here to the East end of London he worked in a multicultural school in Walthamstow; the school at the time having been just failed by an inspection team, he quickly worked with the Head Teacher to bring about change. From here he accepted a deputy headship to Sheerness in Kent; a very deprived school with severe social challenge; completing here his national qualification for headship. His four year tenure prepared him well for his first Headship on the Romney Marsh in a new school with severe problems. Here he studied for his second post graduate qualification in Faith in Education. Moving this school to good with outstanding features; he then decided to take the challenge of building and opening a new school on Sheppey in Kent. Restructuring the school and working with an architect within a time frame of just eight months; the school has grown from strength to strength receiving an outstanding inspection from the Diocese recently. Howard is currently studying for a Theology degree and has taken the school into an Academy with the Diocese three years ago. Howard also ran two schools in his Executive Headship position within the Trust was last year taking this additional school out of Special measures in six months. He is in his fifteenth year of headship.
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- Coach for U7
- Members of the Senior Leadership Team
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- Skills: Leadership, Performance Management and Business Process Improvement, People Management, Communication. Good Understanding of Finance / Accounts and Budgeting
A qualified accountant (FCA) and retired Chief Financial Officer, with many years' experience in both commercial and not-for-profit organisations. Spent 10 years as Head of Finance/Chief Financial Officer at two separate Multi Academy Trusts. Since retirement in 2020, volunteers as a member and/or Trustee of Multi Academy Trusts and a Hospice. Skills: Accounting and Finance, specialising in MAT and Charity accounting; Governance; Audit and Risk Management.
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- Finance Manager
- Trust Finance Manager
I am a service development manager for a national charity - The Forward Trust - who support/help anyone impacted by addiction, crime, homelessness, or long-term unemployment to turn their lives around and achieve their full potential. I have worked in the substance misuse and criminal justice field for over 20 years mainly in custodial settings and am truly passionate about providing people with the support needed to reach their individual goals, using a trauma informed approach to both one to one and group recovery. Before leaving the prison environment I was the CQC registered manager for the clinical and psychosocial substance service in a local reception prison, leading a team of over 30 staff members. I now work in the business development function, tendering for new opportunities, building best practise portfolios and supporting our prisons and families and young people's services offer tailored and personalised support to individuals accessing their services and driving service improvement. Skills: people management and development, training, problem solving, solution focused thinking, understanding and application of strategies into operational delivery, quality assurance and improvement within regulatory frameworks.
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- HR Officer
- Trust HR Officer
Vic Goddard is proud to be a council estate boy from South London but suffers the curse of therefore being a Crystal Palace Fan.
Vic, from a young age, wanted to be a PE teacher and following his degree course in Chichester enjoyed two years working on the south coast at Angmering School, learning from two of the best PE teachers you could ever wish to meet. During this time Vic realised that he wanted to be a headteacher and set himself the target of being a Head by 40 and on the golf course by 50! This led to him moving on from jobs - sad to leave but determined to make the next career step. Four years in Cheam followed by a three year stint working in an international school in Cairo followed where he took on the role of Head of Faculty.
On returning to the UK, Vic was fortunate to work with a truly inspiring headteacher, Kevin Sadler in his first SLT role and in five years went from Assistant Head to Head at Passmores School (now Academy) in Harlow. Under his leadership, he has now turned Passmores into a multi-academy trust of four schools, all in Harlow.
Vic feels privileged to be a CEO and is humbled everyday that parents/carers are willing to trust him to educate their children.
He came into public view several years ago through Educating Essex, a fly-on-the-wall documentary filmed in the Harlow secondary school he leads and capturing the ups and downs, tears and laughter of typical school life. He also found time to write a book entitled The Best Job in the World, a title he only occasionally regrets as he goes about doing such an inspirational leadership role, despite the immense pressures of Ofsted, underfunding and the relentless pressure to achieve ever-better exam results.