Lead Practitioner English

Lead Practitioner English

Salary: Lead Practitioner Scale (Inner London)

Job type: Full Time, Permanent

Start date: January 2025

Salary: Inner London MPS – UPS

Job Overview

We are looking for a qualified, experienced and excellent teacher to join us as Lead Practitioner of English.

Our Lewisham Academy is part of a small Trust of schools working together to achieve the best in everyone. Our vision is to provide excellent education so that all young people are able to make a success of their lives and, if we are to realise this vision, we need to make sure we attract, develop and reward the key ingredient – you.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our team and the development of our highly successful academy.

We are seeking a consistently excellent teacher, with the results to prove it, who is ambitious and highly motivated to lead others. If successful, you will join our Quality of Education team. The Lead Practitioner role will allow you to have a significant impact on our Secondary Academy and support you develop in your career.

We are looking to appoint a Lead Practitioner of English to join our growing leadership team. We are looking for an exceptional classroom teacher with a proven record of achieving excellent outcomes for young people. We are looking for someone who has the highest standards of themselves and of others and is an inspirational leader of other people.

The core purpose of all members of staff is to be a strong role model to staff, as well as to improve achievement and attainment for all groups of students.

As one of the key leaders in the school, you will need to be able to build respect and trust so that you can develop strong relationships with pupils, parents, and staff. As a strong leader, you will be able to think hard before contributing ideas to support continuous improvement and then be able to implement that improvement in the department(s) that you support. You will be able to strike the right balance between offering effective support to those you lead as well as rigorous challenge and accountability.

Areas of Responsibility

You will play a leading and highly visible role in the improvement of teaching and learning and academic success of all students in English. You will help ensure the highest standards of teaching, learning, and achievement in the department. You will be involved in monitoring, evaluation, and review of standards and provisions in the English department.

The main responsibilities of this role are:

• To work closely with the Quality of Education Team and the Head of English to achieve excellence and high standards for all students.
• To account for students’ performance in line with Academy procedures.
• To work closely with the United Learning Subject Advisors.
• To contribute actively towards the implementation of all Academy policies and procedures, ensuring their consistent implementation.
• To ensure high quality teaching and learning in English and across the Academy.
• To participate in duties at lunch, break, before, during and after school in the Academy day.
• To ensure that the subject knowledge of staff in the English department is exemplary.
• To ensure that behaviour in the English Department is exemplary.
• To ensure that Schemes of Learning are of a high quality.
• To ensure student work is of a high quality.
• To motivate students to want to be successful in English.

Qualifications and Experience

• Hold QTS (or equivalent) and a relevant undergraduate degree, and, ideally, be able to show evidence of ongoing professional development.
• Demonstrate outstanding teaching practice and excellent behaviour management.
• Have experience in lesson observations and giving robust feedback.
• Have experience in improvement planning and implementing a range of strategies to raise student achievement, with evidence of success.
• Be able to contribute to improving the quality of learning teaching and curriculum.
• Have a proven track record of excellent results at KS3 and 4, and, ideally, experience teaching to KS5.

What we offer

At our Secondary Academy, we are committed to making sure our staff feel valued and appreciated. We recognise that flexible working has a key role in attracting, retaining, and rewarding outstanding staff members. We are committed to encouraging and enabling flexible working opportunitie. We have a staff welfare charter that lays out all the things we do to support staff. This includes a disruption-free learning environment so that teachers can teach and students can learn; weekly curriculum implementation time in departments to allow teachers time to plan lessons together; strong professional development programs, including NPQML, and NPQSL; Best practice visits; well-planned curriculums that are designed in the first instance by a team of united learning subject advisors. (Staff then use these to plan lessons that are appropriate for our students); regular opportunities to share expertise with other United Learning academies via webinars, meetings, and visits; staff yoga sessions and a late start once a fortnight for each member of staff.

We are dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. You will have a safeguarding responsibility if appointed. The successful candidate will be subject to enhanced clearance through the Disclosure and Barring Service and employment will be subject to references.  This post is not exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

To apply for this opportunity your detailed CV to Clarus Education now to be considered. We will be contacting those shortlisted within 48 hours of an application.

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