Internal Vacancy: Lead Practitioner
Nansen Primary School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B8 3HG6 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
29 November 2024 at 9am
Date listed
19 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £51,058.00 Annually (FTE) L4-L8
Internal Vacancy: Lead Practitioner job summary
Internal Vacancy: Lead Practitioner – 1 term Interim Position- Full time in the first instance. (Subject to be negotiated)
Salary Range: Leadership point 4-8
Nansen Primary School part of Leigh Trust: 104 Naseby Road, Alum Rock, Birmingham, B8 3HG
E-mail: h.begum@nansen.bham.sch.uk (Office Manager)
Required: January 2025- April 2025
Nansen Primary School is a good school and we put the children’s learning at the heart of everything we do. Nansen Primary School, an academy within Leigh Trust, is proud to promote a new and exciting opportunity that has arisen at our school. We are looking to appoint an interim Lead practitioner who has high expectations, of themselves and their pupils, and has the ability to inspire, motivate and challenge pupils through quality teaching and creative learning experiences.
This post will be class based; roles and responsibilities include taking a lead in sharing and developing good practice and raising attainment across the school. It will also include being part of the Senior Leadership Team. The post will provide an excellent opportunity for further professional development and for the successful candidate to play a significant leadership role in continuing to raise standards.
If you are:
- An outstanding, dynamic classroom practitioner with an excellent understanding of how children learn.
- An innovative practitioner with creative drive to help shape an exciting curriculum.
- An individual who has strong communication and interpersonal skills and has the ability to motivate, inspire, lead, support and challenge others.
- A track record of improving standards.
- Committed to the involvement of children and parents working together.
- Dedicated to achieving high standards in all areas.
- Enthusiastic in helping the school to meet the challenges of the future.
We can offer you:
- Full support from an experienced Head Teacher and Deputy Headteacher.
- Leadership and management time, training and support for your own professional development, and the opportunity to network within our trust of primary schools
- A large, committed, welcoming, professional and hardworking staff team.
- Children who are happy, keen and eager to learn.
- A fully supportive and professional governing body.
How to apply
Please apply via clicking on the link to the My New Term portal below. You will need to Register and create an account with them. Once registered, you will be able to submit your application.
Closing date: Friday 29th November 2024 9am
Interview, task and observations: Wednesday 4th December 2024.
Equal Opportunities, Safeguarding & Child Protection
Nansen Primary believes that its workforce should reflect the local community and that all groups within the community should have equal access to the Trust’s employment opportunities. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.
Nansen Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks including: Enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.
All applicants will be required to provide two suitable reference. An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2023. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Nansen Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 662 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Nansen Primary School website (opens in new tab)
School location
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