Lead Practitioner for English
Role: Lead Practitioner for English
Salary: Lead Practitioner Scale (Outer London) L7 – L14
Job type: Full Time, Permanent
Start date: September 2025
Location: Sutton
Job overview - Lead Practitioner for English
Join us in providing outstanding teaching and learning experiences for our pupils. We are looking for a qualified, experienced teacher to join our inclusive and diverse Sutton Secondary School as Lead Practitioner of English, with specific responsibility for Teaching and Learning.
About Us / Our School - Lead Practitioner for English
Our Sutton Secondary School is a very popular non-selective and highly oversubscribed academy which opened as part of the small trust in 2017. We serve our local community of Sutton and have 900 on roll in the secondary academy and around 200 students in the 6th form.
Main Areas of Responsibility
As our Lead Practitioner for English, you will play a leading and highly visible role in the improvement of teaching and learning of the Faculty and academic success of all students, ensuring the highest standards of teaching, learning and achievement and leading in the monitoring, evaluation and review of standards and provision in the subject area.
The general expectations of Lead Practitioner for English are:
1. To collaborate as a member of the Lead Practitioner Team in order to build and realise the shared vision of excellence and high standards for all students
2. To account for students' performance in line with Academy procedures
3. To provide the Governing Body with relevant and accurate information relating to the Faculty's performance and development
4. To contribute actively towards the formulation of all Academy policies and procedures, ensuring their consistent implementation
5. To ensure high quality teaching and learning in the Faculty or across the Academy
6. To participate in duties at lunch, break, before, during and after school the Academy day
7. To ensure that the subject knowledge of staff in the Faculty is exemplary
8. To ensure that behaviour in the Faculty is exemplary
9. To ensure that Schemes of Learning and Independent Work books are of a high quality
Qualifications & Experience - Lead Practitioner for English
The successful candidate will:
10. Hold QTS (or equivalent) and a relevant undergraduate degree, and, ideally, be able to show evidence of ongoing professional development
11. Demonstrate outstanding teaching practice and excellent behaviour management
12. Have experience of lesson observations and giving robust feedback
13. Have experience of improvement planning and of implementing a range of strategies to raise student achievement, with evidence of success
14. Be able to contribute to improving on the quality of learning and teaching and curriculum
15. Have a proven track record of excellent results at KS3 and 4, and, ideally, experience of teaching to KS5
16. Have experience of high quality pupil tracking and feedback practices
17. Ideally, have experience of working with governors and of working in more than one school
Next Steps
If you have any questions about this Lead Practitioner for English opportunity, please send us an email, or call to arrange a conversation.
We are dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful Lead Practitioner for English will be subject to enhanced clearance through the Disclosure and Barring Service and employment will be subject to references.