Lead Practitioner
Bentley West Primary School, Walsall, West Midlands, WS2 0EQ6 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
6 June 2025 at 4pm
Date listed
28 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Salary will be depending on experience
Lead Practitioner job summary
(Part of Leigh Trust)
Bentley West Primary School – Vacancy for Lead Practitioner
Bentley West Primary School, Monmouth Road, Walsall WS2 0EQ
Lead Practitioner
Start Date: September 2025 or as soon as possible.
Salary Range based on previous experience:Are you an experienced teacher, with outstanding outcomes looking for a new challenge within an innovative and exciting school?
Would you like to be part of a Trust where your skills and expertise can be shared across our family of schools?
Do you seek a post with amazing opportunities to share your passion within an environment where you will be valued and supported?
We are looking to appoint a Lead Practitioner to provide both excellent teaching and to lead on curriculum subjects throughout the school. A Lead Practitioner would be a consistently good or outstanding teacher, with the results to prove it, who is ambitious and highly motivated to lead others. The Lead Practitioner will do everything possible to raise the quality of teaching and learning throughout the School.
At Bentley West, we believe in working collaboratively, sharing ideas and supporting each other to achieve joint success. As part of the Leigh MAT, we share a collective belief that our children should benefit from a provision and experience that both inspires and develops a new generation of young people that can meet the demands of life in the 21st century. As such, you should be able to teach across the ability range for KS1 and KS2, but also have the unequivocal desire to develop pedagogy and practice both at Bentley West and across the Trust.
We welcome applications from experienced teachers who can demonstrate their passion and expertise in supporting children to achieve their full potential across the curriculum. A proven track record of coaching, mentoring and supporting colleagues is essential.
The Leigh Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff to share this commitment.
Closing Date: 4pm on Friday 6th June 2025
Interviews: w/c 16th June 2025
How to apply:
If you feel that this could the exciting opportunity and career advancement you are seeking and would like to find out more, please contact Mrs. Keats on Cath.Keats@bentleywest.co.uk or 01922720792.
To apply for this post by creating a new account or signing into your MyNewTerm www.mynewterm.com. Only applications completed on MyNewTerm will be accepted, a link to the post will be emailed to all staff.
Part of the interview process will be a class observation; you must be available to attend and take part in this activity. If you do not receive an invitation to an interview by Friday 13th June, at this time you have unfortunately been unsuccessful.
Please note that applications must be the creation of the candidate applying. While technology, including artificial intelligence, may be used to help the candidate select certain phraseology, if substantial use of AI is used, the application will be disregarded.
Equal Opportunities, Safeguarding & Child Protection: Bentley West 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.
Bentley West 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 Bentley West Primary School
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- Up to 494 pupils
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Bentley West Primary School website
School location
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