Trustees (ID 1222)

• Jan Vicary
  Chair of Trustees
  Jan Vicary

  
  Career summary

  Over 40 years' experience working within the Education Sector (firstly within the Local Education Authority and latterly within the Higher Education sector).

  Currently School Manager of a large clinical school, training students on nursing and Allied Health Professionals programmes. Role involves shaping School strategy and ensuring that appropriate systems are in place to enable the School to meet its overall strategic objectives. It supports the delivery of academic and business plans through the leadership and management of a comprehensive and effective professional support service across this large and complex School.

  Areas of responsibility: HR; quality; staff appraisals; resource allocation; financial planning, data protection and safeguarding.

  Have been a School Governor for 14 years and Chair of Governors of a Single Academy Trust Secondary School for 7 years.

  In my spare time I am also an Editorial Assistant for the Community Dental Health Journal.

  Skills, knowledge and experience relevant to trustee role

  Financial planning, staffing allocations, HR; safeguarding; ensuring high quality provision through appropriate challenge and scrutiny; strategic planning.

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• Stephen Cowperthwaite MRICS
  Trustee
  Stephen Cowperthwaite MRICS

  Career summary

  Chartered Surveyor with over 35 years' experience. Principal and Managing Director, Regions and Liverpool at Avison Young, a global real estate consultancy with c. 5,000 employees. Avison Young creates economic, social and environmental value as a global real estate advisor, powered by people.

  Present employment

  Avison Young

  Global real estate consultancy headquartered in Toronto with c. 5,000 employees.

  Principal and Managing Director, Regions & Liverpool

  Chair Public Sector Client Development Board

  Previous

  GL Hearn Corporate Director

  Mason Owen Partner

  Valuation Office Agency Senior Valuer

  Other experience

  Liverpool Place Partnership - Chair

  Liverpool Place Partnership is a private sector led programme working to advance investment and foster support across Liverpool's business community to make the city region an attractive place to invest. The Liverpool Place Partnership is an advocate for the Liverpool City Region. We deliver strategic thought leadership for the Liverpool City Region. We are trusted change makers that represent the private sector and challenge and disrupt for the benefit of all, working closely with public sector political and executive leadership across the region.

  Professional Liverpool - Board Member

  PL represents Liverpool City Region's professional community. We come together to learn, connect and grow so that we can contribute to a shared vision:

  A thriving economic future for the Liverpool City Region. One with a more balanced contribution from different sectors and greater opportunities for people to stay and develop their careers.

  Chesterfield High School

  Governor

  Chair Facilities, Finance and Staffing

  Skills, knowledge and experience relevant to trustee role

  I have a broad range of skills and experience built up through the various leadership roles that I have undertaken previously and currently.

  I have been Managing Director of Avison Young Liverpool since September 2015 and have recently taken on the role of Managing Director UK Regions. In addition I Chair our Public Sector Client Development Board. In these roles I work closely with political and executive leadership across Liverpool City Region and beyond, including with Central Government. I provide strategic development consultancy to public and private sector partners and lead multi-disciplinary teams working on complex projects, evaluating risks and opportunities. An important element of this is working with key stakeholders across sectors and importantly local communities.

  I work with national and global leadership helping to set strategy for the business and drive financial performance.

  In my role as Chair of Liverpool Place Partnership I lead a private sector collective that works in collaboration with public sector partners, including Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram and CEO Katherine Fairclough, to promote Liverpool City Region as a place for investment.

  I have been a Governor at Chesterfield since 2017 and chair the FAFS committee.

  I have been involved in the appointment of the headteacher and subsequent appraisals.

  I am a firm believer in diversity, equity and inclusion, raising aspirations in schools and working with communities. Avison Young has recently sponsored Liverpool Against Racism, The World Reimagined and the Salt and Tar music festival in Bootle. As an organisation we are the people for place and believe in creating real economic, social and environmental value.

• Mark Dale
  Trustee
  Mark Dale

  Career summary

  Mark has most recently been Chair of Governors at the Rowan Park School having been a Governor at the School since 2015.

  He was Sefton MBC's Chief Personnel Officer from 2010 to March 2022 (having joined Sefton as Assistant Director in 2009).  He advised on a large number of issues in education (including those from the maintained, voluntary aided and Academy sectors) in respect of HR and employment law having had responsibility for the full HR team, policy and trade union negotiations across the Local Authority.  Advice has concerned anything from all day to day matters to Academy conversion.  He has also been part of Interim Executive Boards to secure school improvement and/or conversion to Academy status. 

  Mark is currently the Deputy Chief People Officer for the Countess of Chester NHS Foundation Trust having joined that organisation in March 2022.

  He is a qualified solicitor and was a Legal Director at DLA Piper LLP (being with that firm from 2000 to 2009) advising on a large number of employment related issues and representing in Employment Tribunals. He is a Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

  Mark is strongly committed to the promotion of opportunity in education.

• David Hird
  Trustee
  David Hird

  With over 25 years' experience in primary education, as a teacher and school leader in Bootle, I have taught in every primary age group and held a wide a range of subject leadership roles across the primary curriculum. As Deputy Headteacher I have responsibility for the overall content, sequencing and quality assurance of the whole school curriculum, and work closely with all class teachers and subject leaders to ensure high-quality, equitable and inclusive learning opportunities for all children, especially children with SEND. I have also worked closely with colleagues in Key Stage 3 to ensure smooth and effective transition at an academic, social and pastoral level. As a senior leader, I have considerable experience in school self-evaluation, school improvement planning and implementation, staff performance management, professional development and safer recruitment.

  As part of my current role, I am one of the school's Designated Safeguarding Leads and am the trained Senior Mental Health Lead, responsible for creating, implementing and sustaining an effective whole-school approach to mental health and wellbeing for both staff and children.

  For more than 10 years I have been a Professional Mentor for LJMU, leading a team of ITT Mentors within school, to ensure that the ITT Core Content Framework and the DfE Teaching Standards are fully integrated and addressed by those involved in our school-based training. I am a member of the LJMU ITE Primary Steering Group which supports and advises on the operational and strategic leadership of the partnership's ITE provision.

  Beyond my own school setting, I was for 8 years the Leading Maths Subject Leader for Sefton LA, this role included subject leader coaching and development, leading the DfE National Strategy Training for teaching assistants across the LA and the delivery of Maths curriculum training for Sefton NQTs. For my M.Ed., I was asked by the LA to complete an authority wide evaluation of Early Maths Intervention Programmes; this gave me an insight into a wide range of different primary school settings across Sefton and a critical understanding of the role intervention can play in raising attainment and achievement. In additional to my Masters, I hold a range of school leadership qualifications from the National College.

• Paul Horwood
  Trustee
  Paul Horwood

  Over many years I have been involved in the use of data to drive decision making and develop appropriate strategies to achieve the objectives and drive the vision of the companies I have worked for.

  I spent several years working at Sefton Council with responsibility for developing an intelligence and reporting framework for Children's Services. During this time I was heavily involved in the setting up of the MASH and the processes and procedures for using and sharing data.

  The years I have spent working with and analysing data mean I am well equipped to use these skill to interrogate all school performance and financial information in order to help shape strategic direction of the school and to hold the school to account through the use of data.

  I have also been involved in school governance for more than a decade and for a large proportion of this time have taken responsibility for Safeguarding and ensuring the school is not only compliant with all Safeguarding requirements but goes beyond the statutory requirements to ensure the safety and wellbeing of both staff and students.

• Jacqui Patterson
  Trustee
  Jacqui Patterson

• Emma Gregory
  Trustee (Vice Chair of Trustees)
  Emma Gregory

• James Melia
  Trustee
  James Melia

• Rosanna Stanley
  Trustee
  Rosanna Stanley