Lead Practitioner

4 weeks ago


Rochester, Medway, United Kingdom LeighAcademiesTrust Full time
Job Description

Become a key member of our leadership team at Strood Academy and spearhead efforts to elevate standards and enrich teaching and learning across our academy. As a pivotal figure, you'll be instrumental in translating our academy's vision into exceptional classroom practices, fostering a culture of excellence throughout.

Your core duties will encompass developing and executing strategies for teaching and learning, curriculum planning, professional development, and fostering teamwork. You'll champion positive student engagement by setting high expectations, delivering outstanding lessons, and cultivating an inspiring learning environment. Leading the charge in Geography, you'll establish tailored systems and procedures to enhance teaching and learning within the subject.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and execute strategies for teaching and learning
  • Curriculum planning and professional development
  • Fostering teamwork and positive student engagement
  • Establishing tailored systems and procedures for Geography

Requirements:

  • Degree in the relevant subject
  • Qualified Teacher Status, or equivalent
  • Successful classroom practitioner with experience in co-educational comprehensive schools
  • Evidence of commitment to extra-curricular and enrichment provision
  • Detailed knowledge of the national curriculum in the relevant area
  • Proven track record of successful strategies for raising achievement and sharing good practice
  • Evidence of enabling students to work to the highest standards
  • Good administrative skills
  • Successful experience of team working
  • Evidence of leadership skills and experience
  • Good record of punctuality
  • Commitment to Equal Opportunities
  • Desire and capacity for further promotion

The basis of this role is full-time, permanent and offering a salary of leadership scale commensurate with experience.

Working with Strood Academy:

Our academy has transformed the educational opportunities and outcomes for girls and boys in Strood. The improvement in academic performance has been driven by a talented and committed workforce, the hard work of our students, and support from parents and our community.

Our vision is to be an inclusive community where we are all kind, respectful and resilient in our journey towards excellence. Our students thrive through an enriching and diverse curriculum that offers a global perspective, empowering all to become inquisitive lifelong learners.

Our core values are to be:

  • Inquisitive
  • Respectful
  • Resilient
  • Kind

Our purpose at Strood Academy is to:

  • nurture students' aspirations and build resilience within an environment of tolerance, respect and empathy;
  • shape leaders within a global community;
  • develop and celebrate knowledgeable and inquiring minds to promote lifelong learning and;
  • help young people develop into well educated, considerate and caring citizens.

We have a growing roll call of 1400 children, including 200 in Sixth Form. Working in our academy takes a lot of dedication and hard work, but for the right individuals, it can be an incredibly rewarding experience and contribute significantly to personal and professional development.

Why work at Strood Academy?

  • Our recent OFSTED inspection has confirmed that the academy continues to be judged 'Good' and is very strong in many aspects and areas.

Centralised behaviour system and detentions - simple for teachers to follow allowing disruptive free classrooms.

Our commitment to the development of all staff - CPD on Wednesday afternoons and the opportunity to collaborate with staff from other schools in the LAT.

Strood academy is easily accessible by A2 and the high speed train can allow for travel into London in less than 30 minutes.

We have a common sense approach to workload. All teachers are expected to feedback or live mark. We also work closely as a Trust allowing for centralised resources to be shared across our secondary schools.

Being part of Leigh Academies Trust:

As of 1st September 2024, our Trust comprises 33 geographically organised academies (17 secondaries, 14 primaries and 2 special) educating more than 24,000 students and employing 4,000 talented staff.

Our commitment to safeguarding: Leigh Academies Trust and all of our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Our commitment to equality and diversity: As a Trust, we are passionate about diversity and recognise that as individuals, we all bring something unique to the role regardless of any protected characteristics which is why we treat all of our people equally, without compromise.


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