Lead Practitioner : Artisan Teacher Programme
Bruntcliffe Academy, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS27 0LZ14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2026
Closing date
3 October 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
19 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L2-L6
What skills and experience we're looking for
Bruntcliffe Academy is seeking to recruit a truly inspirational colleague to lead a new and exciting area of our work as a school, closely linked to a programme of national significance which is taking place across our trust.
The successful candidate will lead all aspects of our work overseeing teachers who are in Years 3, 4 and 5 of their career. The aim of the role is to ensure that each of those colleagues is supported to become a truly exceptional classroom practitioner. This will be known in our trust from September 2026 onwards as Artisan Teacher Status.
It goes without saying that the successful applicant will need to be an exceptional teacher who has already shown the ability to inspire and develop others. That colleague will need to have excellent organisational skills, an eye for detail, communication skills which are of the highest order and an ability to work across one of the most respected and high performing trusts in the country.
Though there is flexibility regarding the subject that the successful candidate will teach we would particularly welcome applications from colleagues with expertise within humanities subjects.
What the school offers its staff
As a trust, we want to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. We are pleased to offer a generous benefits package to our team – as we work together to create a rewarding future for all including:
- Membership of a teacher or local government pension scheme, depending on the role.
- A commitment to continued investment in our professionals, supporting every member of staff throughout their career in the trust.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential professional advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- Discounts and online offers at major high street/online retailers.
- £2k Cycle to work scheme.
Further information about the job
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
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About Bruntcliffe Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1374 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Bruntcliffe Academy website
- Email address
- recruitment@bruntcliffe.leeds.sch.uk
Bruntcliffe Academy, previously Bruntcliffe High School, joined The GORSE Academies Trust in September 2015. Along with The Morley Academy, Bruntcliffe is situated centrally in the town of Morley itself. Over the course of recent years Bruntcliffe High School had failed its children and a position had established itself whereby families living on the same streets in the town were receiving a totally different standard of secondary education. The examination outcomes of 2014 and 2015 placed Bruntcliffe High School in the bottom 10% of schools nationally for the achievement of its students. To look at those examination outcomes in detail please go to the Department for Education website. So concerned were parents regarding standards at the school that in September 2014 hundreds of them met to protest to the local authority and the school’s governing body. As a consequence of that action The GORSE Academies Trust was asked to sponsor the school. Bruntcliffe academy over the course of the last 5 academic years has been on an upward trajectory. Ofsted graded Bruntcliffe Academy as Good in 2018 with Teaching and Learning and Leadership and Management graded as Outstanding. Outcomes for young people have improved rapidly, placing the outcomes for young people in the top 13% of schools nationally in 2019.
Bruntcliffe Academy is now a large secondary school due to its improved reputation in the community we are now oversubscribed in all year groups and confident that this will be the case going forward. The majority of students are of white British heritage though the proportion who are classified as being disadvantaged is higher than the national average.
Under the exceptional leadership of its Principal, Laura Moore, the academy will continue to improve at a rapid pace making it an exciting place to work. We are also particularly excited about the current and future building work plans which will not only see improvements to the fabric of the building but also the aesthetics.
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