Rob Buck

Rob is responsible for Maiden Erlegh Institute and Trust Professional Learning across our family of schools, alongside teacher training and development, school to school support and our wider system leadership work.

Rob joined the profession as a trainee Business Studies and Economics teacher at Maiden Erlegh School and has been with the Trust since 2009. He has worked in a number of different middle and senior leadership roles both within Maiden Erlegh School and at Trust level. In 2018, he was appointed Assistant Headteacher and then also Trust Lead for Careers, Destinations and Higher Ability Provision.

He then oversaw Berkshire Teaching School Alliance in 2020 (now Maiden Erlegh Institute) and in 2022 was appointed Director of Maiden Erlegh Institute and Trust Professional Learning.

As part of this role, Rob ensures that the Trust has a clear strategy for professional and career development so that colleagues across all functional areas of the organisation can identify clear development pathways and are supported to achieve their professional goals, from Initial Teacher Trainees through to Chief Operating Officer. He oversees areas such as Initial Teacher Training and our Early Career Teacher Programme, school to school support commissioning, the Trust Annual Conference, Thames Valley Challenge Partners Hub network, the Trust apprenticeship-levy funding and NPQs, the Behaviour Hub designation and is one of the local leads for Appropriate Body on behalf of Teaching School Hub Berkshire.

Rob has also presented at national conferences for both Careers Education and provision for More Able Learners and is a serving Associate for NACE (National Association for Able Children in Education), a Careers Ambassador on behalf of Berkshire.