Lead practitioner - english specialism

Lead Practitioner - English Specialism

Lead Practitioner – English

Watford, Hertfordshire

Permanent, Full time

September 2025

Lead Practitioner pay scale, points 6 – 10 (£57, 979 - £63,888)

The Lead Practitioner - English will take a leadership role in developing, implementing, and evaluating outstanding teaching and will play a key role in school improvement. As Lead Practitioner you will:

* Support and coach staff in developing and extending their pedagogic repertoire.
* Contribute significantly to the development of schemes of work within the department.
* Model best practice in ensuring that lessons are well differentiated including providing for the least able and for the most able and gifted students.
* Assist in the strategic planning for students with special educational needs within the department.
* Model best practice in the effective use of student performance data and student and staff target setting so that this impacts on classroom practice and contributes to raising achievement.
* Lead and develop the mentoring programme for early-stage teachers within the department and contribute to whole school mentoring.

Our Bushey School recognises its employees as the most important asset and critical to its success. To demonstrate this all staff are offered the following benefits for our new Lead Pr...