Business Engagement, Careers and Employability. Tom has a teaching and leadership background within primary schools. Tom studied Primary Education BA Hons at The University of Cumbria and taught across Key Stage 2 before moving into leadership as a SENDCo and Assistant Headteacher. Throughout his teaching journey, Tom was also a Designated Safeguarding Lead, a mentor, coach, and Senior Mental Health Lead. Tom joined the University in 2023 as a Placement Consultant.Tom’s role is Extra-Curricular, and he mainly works with Postgraduate students. He manages the Inspiring Futures Fund (IFF); a scheme that is aimed at enabling students to access ringfenced funding to support them to undertake work experience and placements that are in addition to those embedded into their course. Tom supports students with their applications and holds panels to support the decision-making process. Tom’s goal is to grow the IFF by building links with businesses, engaging with their community investment so that more students can access opportunities and boost their career prospects. Tom uses his skills and experience to deliver workshops to students regarding placement and work experience opportunities. He also assists with the Micro-Placement scheme at the University. Tom manages the Sanctuary Graduates partnership which enables collaboration between students and a key recruitment agency.As part of the Futures Team, Tom works closely with the Business Development Knowledge Exchange (BDKE) team to develop Extra-Curricular and Summer internship opportunities for students. He connects with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), start-ups and charities to develop partnerships and openings for students at the University and attends various networking events to build links within the community.

• Leadership: Responsible for running the school and providing empowering, empathetic and effective leadership to staff and pupils.• Strategic management: Responsible for the day-to-day management of the school, including rotas, staffing, Special Needs and Disabilities Coordinator, Senior Mental Health Lead, Designated Safeguarding Lead and Early Career Teacher Mentor.• Relationship management: Engaged with a variety of key stakeholders including parents, trustees and the Department for Education to foster a dynamic and successful learning environment.

• Leadership: Effective line management of teachers and support staff, responsible for progressing the school development plan. • Organisation: Balanced competing priorities successfully, including planning, teaching, assessment, line management and overseeing Key Stage 2.• Mentoring: Provided supportive mentoring to trainee teachers and worked closely with the headteacher to improve the quality of pupils’ learning and outcomes, inspire trust and confidence in staff and pupils, and used the Performance Management process to guide and support staff to advance pupil learning and enhance professional practice.

• Lesson design and delivery: Designed and delivered motivational and empowering lessons to children, showing my enthusiasm and personality.• Communication: Set clear expectations of achievement and behaviour and communicated effectively with other staff members to improve outcomes significantly across the school.• Organisation: Balanced several competing priorities including planning, teaching and assessment.

• Communication: Successful communication with colleagues and managers to improve the patient journey.• Organisation: Exchanged information with staff for patient records, appointments, admissions verbally, electronically and in written format.• Relationship management: Effectively communicated external stakeholders, including clinicians, members of the public, GP’s, 3rd party contracts and the leadership team within Suffolk Community Healthcare.

• Customer service: Provided excellent customer service to customers registering travel insurance claims.• Relationship management: Developed successful relationships with clients.• Conflict resolution: Understood customer’s frustrations and worked towards a solution.