Lead Practitioner (Class Teacher)
Newbridge School, Romford, Essex, RM6 4TR18 days remaining to apply
Start date details
1st January 2026
Closing date
4 October 2025 at 12:59am
Date listed
15 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £56,154.00 - £61,551.00 Annually (FTE) Lead Practitioner Pay Scale (Points 1-5)
Lead Practitioner (Class Teacher) job summary
As a Lead Practitioner, you’ll work closely with the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to:
- Model excellence in teaching pupils with PMLD, setting the standard for others to follow.
- Drive improvement in teaching practice through coaching, mentoring, and professional development.
- Lead on pedagogy and curriculum within your chosen pathway, ensuring it reflects the latest research and best practice.
- Support staff development, including trainees and early career teachers, through induction, training, and ongoing support.
- Develop high-quality schemes of work that reduce workload and enhance learning.
- Evaluate impact through lesson demonstrations, classroom observations, and data analysis.
- Promote safeguarding and ensure every pupil thrives in a safe, nurturing environment.
What We’re Looking For:
- Proven experience teaching pupils with PMLD.
- A passion for inclusive education and a commitment to continuous improvement.
- Strong leadership skills and the ability to inspire others.
- Willingness to work towards or hold a National Professional Qualification (NPQ).
- A collaborative mindset and a drive to share knowledge and best practice.
Why Join Us?
- Be part of a forward-thinking, supportive team.
- Lead meaningful change in a specialist setting.
- Access ongoing professional development and leadership opportunities.
- Make a real difference in the lives of pupils and staff.
- Employee Assistance & Wellbeing Programme
- Generous Pension Schemes
- Family-friendly working policies
- Extensive support and development opportunities
- Refer a friend scheme
- Free onsite parking
- Free tea and coffee
- Great location close to TfL Elizabeth and Central Lines
- And more…
Astrum values diversity, inclusion and equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. We celebrate and embrace unique individuality, background and heritage.
We are a ‘Disability Confident Employer’ and all our application forms hide your personal information so we can focus solely on your experience, skills and qualities.
We believe in fostering a work environment that supports work-life balance. We are open to flexible working arrangements, including remote work, flexible hours, and part-time opportunities.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to actively share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to pre-employment checks, including an enhanced check with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS), as well as online searches, in line with Safer Recruitment guidance and the need to maintain a safe culture.
We reserve the right to interview and appoint prior to the advert closing date. With this in mind, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Astrum Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and anyone applying to work at the school is expected to share this commitment.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Newbridge School
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 19
- School size
- 183 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Newbridge School website
We are a three times outstanding split site special school academy catering for children and young people between the ages of two and nineteen years who have a complex learning difficulty, often accompanied by additional special educational needs, which may include;
Physical disabilities
Sensory impairments
Autistic Spectrum disorders
Associated behaviour
SEMH
Medical needs
We are part of the Astrum Multi Academy Trust with two school sites, which are within one mile of each other. Lower School is for pupils in Early Years Foundation Stage, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 and Upper School for students in Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 and 16-19.
Pupils transfer from Gresham Drive to Barley Lane Campus at the end of Key Stage 2 and are supported to do this through a well-planned transition programme.
Please feel free to contact us if you would like to find out more about our work or request paper copies of some of the information.
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