Lead Practitioner

About this role

We are seeking to appoint a Lead Practitioner to
join our extended leadership team. Candidates will be skilled in the classroom,
articulate and dedicated to bringing positive outcomes for young people in our
school community. The successful
candidate will be both an exceptional teacher as well as inspiring,
intelligent and thoughtful in their approach to leading others.

This post has a whole-college focus.
The successful applicant will work as a small team with senior leaders
to support the development of teaching and learning across the College. Lead
Practitioners have two central responsibilities in addition to their own
teaching: to work with staff individually to guide their practice and to
facilitate small group CPD and coaching.
They work closely with the Senior Leadership Team to ensure the College
offers the right support to all staff.

The
post is open to applications from experienced teachers of all national
curriculum subjects. We are particularly
keen to hear from interested English, History or RE teachers but we are looking
to appoint an exceptional teacher, and this matters more than the subject
offered. The post holder absolutely must
model great teaching themselves. They
must also have a good understanding of how children learn and what makes great
teaching to allow them to work alongside others to address their development
needs.

This
is a fantastic opportunity for talented teachers to impact more widely on
students’ success beyond their own classrooms.
If you are ready for the next step in your career but wish to focus
completely on developing teaching and learning, this could be the ideal
opportunity for you.

The successful applicant will:

• put children and young people first;
• be an exceptional classroom
  practitioner, who is able to teach a national curriculum subject at Key Stages
  3, 4 and 5;
• be able to use a strong
  pedagogical understanding to guide teachers to develop their practice in a
  genuinely useful way;
• have experience of developing
  the work of colleagues at various professional stages;
• have the ability to motivate
  and inspire others;
• have an up-to-date knowledge
  of the emerging issues in education;
• be confident to work with a high degree of
  autonomy whilst also being collaborative and an effective team player;
• be a committed,
  highly-competent, reflective and resilient individual;
• have a sense of humour and
  good interpersonal and communication skills.