Lead Practitioner 7 - 10 (Salary) £62,089 - £66,479
Lead Practitioner of English
Lead Practitioner of English
Salary: Leadership Scale (Outer London)
Job type: Full Time, Permanent
Start date: September
Are you looking for your next step in school leadership?
This may be the role for you. We are looking for a qualified, experienced teacher to join our academy as Lead Practitioner of English. At our Secondary Academy, you will join a dedicated and open team of professionals supporting the wider academy team.
About Us
We are a new school with drive and ambition. Located in the Bexley, on the border of Greenwich, we cater to a vastly vibrant 3-19 aged student community. Accessible by fantastic rail and bus transport links, the academy's stunning working environment is within a purpose-built school.
Our vision is clear: nothing is impossible and everything is possible, irrespective of personal characteristics or background. Every problem has a solution. We believe we are more robust, resilient and determined as a team than as a group of individuals. We support, challenge and hold each other to account at all levels within the academy to ensure that our students achieve their potential, are motivated, engaged and fully prepared for life beyond our academy.
As an successful secondary academies, staff at all levels belong to a strong, cohesive team working with Executive Principal and the wider SLT team. Staff can expect to grow with us as we continue to innovate and evolve as an academy. With ample opportunity to build on CPD, your potential is limitless with us.
Job Description
1. To lead improvement in teaching and learning across the academy, including the implementation of innovative “next” practice in literacy for learning.
2. Promoting this practice with the educational community, across the academy and Federation, and nationally through published articles, workshops and conferences including the Leadership and Innovation hub for London.
3. To ensure best teaching practice is systematically shared across the academy
4. To lead the Teaching and Learning Development team and coordinate meetings
5. To lead and coordinate staff CPD training through the CITP group
6. To lead on developing and embedding the academy marking policy
7. To support in the process of mentoring NQTs and teach first where required to do so by the relevant AP
8. To lead on the academy Coaching for Improved Teaching Programme (CITP)
9. To participate in formal procedures where required to do so by the Principal
10. To lead on specific strategies for personalising learning across the academy that have a high impact on increasing student and performance.
11. To use data analysis skills to identify and organise first class intervention strategies that ensure students maximise their potential
12. To recognise and fully utilise the power of new technologies within and across subject areas to innovate where required
13. To be an expert coach, using this skill successfully to develop our teaching staff to achieve their full potential.
14. To establish successful raising achievement plans and intervention programmes for year 11 and Post 16. Utilising the flexibility of the curriculum, ICT packages and after hours programmes for intervention and support.
15. To establish a successful programme that ensures all groups of students meet their targets and gaps in progress are closed. This to include students on the G&T profile.
16. To support coordinators and subject leaders in developing their self -evaluation and review.
17. To work closely with the Student Learning Commission of the academy and promote achievements across the Federation and beyond.
18. Leading staff and students on the development of faculty days that will be significant in raising achievement across the academy, by developing a greater range of teaching and learning opportunities and utilising “time” more creatively
19. Provide inspiration and direction on new innovation projects that will invigorate curriculum delivery.
Qualifications & Experience
The successful Lead Practitioner of English candidate will:
20. Hold QTS (or equivalent) and a relevant undergraduate degree, and, ideally, management training
21. Have a minimum of three years' teaching experience, of which two should be at leadership level.
22. Show proven success in raising achievement across at least two key stages.
23. Show evidence of leading, supporting and managing others, both individuals and teams, ensuring high quality performance.
24. Have a high level of ICT skills and experience of how new technologies can be used to raise achievement, including the use of interactive white boards.
25. Have recent experience of involvement in innovative curriculum development.
26. Have experience of presenting to a wide audience
27. Understand how whole academy strategies can be used across the curriculum to raise standards.
28. Have successful experience of embedding cross curricular subjects.
29. Have experience of embedding innovative strategies for Assessment for Learning and Learning to Learn in a whole school situation.
30. Have of using coaching as a model for ensuring ongoing professional development, particularly with subject leaders
31. Show evidence of continuous self-development and updated knowledge in the fields of teaching and learning and education management, particularly in the areas of responsibility for this post.
32. Ideally, have experience in multi-ethnic urban schools and of presenting in local and/or national education forums.