Jim is the Head Teacher at Meden School, an 11–18 secondary school of 1,000 pupils in Market Warsop, north Nottinghamshire.

Jim has been a Design, Technology and Engineering teacher for the past 20 years and has taught in a range of schools throughout his career.

Jim is an experienced secondary school leader with a demonstrated successful history of working in a variety of educational leadership and management roles. He played a key role in establishing NUAST as a highly successful specialist STEM secondary school and Sixth Form, in Nottingham, focusing on industry involvement in curriculum delivery.

Jim became Head of Meden in November 2019 and led the school to its best-ever GCSE results in 2022. He has a keen interest in employee engagement and teacher development which play a core role in his approach to school leadership and improvement.