Helen Redford-Hernandez is an experienced CEO, Headteacher and former National Leader of Education. She was appointed as CEO and Accounting Officer of the Brighter Futures Learning Partnership Trust in 2019 after holding several senior leader posts across a range of schools in Doncaster, Nottinghamshire and Rotherham. She was the lead educationalist to oversee the development of the Trust for more than 3 years and worked with a number of employers to set up the very successful, oversubscribed Doncaster UTC which joined the Trust in 2020.
She now shares the role of CEO with her colleague Mr Garath Rawson who was the founding Principal of the UTC and served as Executive Principal across Doncaster UTC and Hungerhill School.
Helen was appointed the Headteacher at Hungerhill School from September 2013 and since the school's Ofsted she has supported it to develop into a locally and nationally recognised provider of excellence, with student outcomes constantly being well above national averages. The school became a Teaching School and National Support School in 2015.
Helen has enjoyed a number of leadership roles both in education and business, including the support and development of the Initial Teacher Training programmes at the University of Nottingham, a School Improvement Consultant and MFL Adviser for Nottinghamshire LA as well as the roles she embraced in her early career as a Management Accountant in a large steel company in Sheffield.
Helen has recently worked with her colleagues to submit a proposal to set up a second UTC for Doncaster, specialising in green technology and health science. The Trust was awarded the go ahead in September 2023 and is due to open in 2027.