Prior to joining Lightcliffe Academy in January 2023, Jo Hackett worked for a significant number of years at Oasis Academy Lister Park in Manningham, Bradford. Jo joined the Oasis senior leadership team when the academy was in special measures and played an integral role in its journey to requires improvement in 2016, then to a good judgement in 2019.
While at Oasis Academy, Jo performed a number of senior roles; first leading on data, outcomes and interventions then heading up teaching and learning. In2019, following her promotion to Deputy Principal, she took on responsibility for the academy’s curriculum, also leading on personal development with a particular focus on diversity and PSHCE. As the academy’s strategic safe-guarding lead, Jo had oversight of the therapeutic support and pastoral care in place at Oasis Lister Park.
A passion for inclusion underpins everything Jo does, along with the strong belief that positive relationships and self-esteem are central to wellbeing and achievement. Jo believes that the power of good teaching and bespoke care and support combine to make a transformational difference to young people.
