Lead Practitioner (English)
Oasis Academy Silvertown, London, E16 2BB11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
17 March 2025 at 9am
Date listed
5 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject
- English
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- LP2 – LP6, Inner London + Teacher Pension Scheme
What skills and experience we're looking for
An exciting opportunity to join the team at Oasis Academy Silvertown
Oasis Academy Silvertown is looking to recruit a talented, humble and highly motivated leader to the key position of Lead Practitioner (English) to model excellence in English teaching, support the development of the English department and lead an area of pedagogy or curriculum improvement across the academy.
Are you passionate about the power of brilliantly taught English for young people in East London? Do you love developing others and understand how to motivate, challenge and support others to improve? Do you have high aspirations for all young people, are keen to learn and ready to prioritise strong relationships in all of your work? Are you a highly successful and experienced teacher, ready to take your next step to develop yourself as a lead practitioner?
What the school offers its staff
Our offer to you
The academy has been through considerable change in the past year and is now in a new phase of growth ensuring that we improve student outcomes through a renewed focus on high aspirations, strong relationships and love for learning. We know that we have work to do and are working hard to ensure that we are successful in our mission, ensuring that every student leaving us is Ready for University and Ready to Lead. We are now in our final period of expansion as we move towards full student capacity (600 students, September 2026).
We are seeking an exceptional leader who is looking for an opportunity to:
Learn and develop through experience and training in this role
Work with a new, passionate, dedicated and supportive team developing a small and growing academy
Work in a values-led organisation, focused on pursuing social justice and the excellent education that all of our students deserve
Serve a diverse and aspirational community
Be supported by a strong, national MAT with shared resources, subject and leadership networks and CPD
Work in an academy that values its staff with smart policies that consider carefully how teachers can best use their time
Other benefits include
The Oasis benefits package
Cycle-to-work Incentive
Healthcare Cash Plan Scheme
Free eye tests
Flexible working opportunities
Integrated IT provision to support teaching, including your own laptop and iPad
Further details about the role
Our academy
Oasis Academy Silvertown was planned and founded by the West Silvertown community who dreamed of having a local school which ensured both academic excellence as well as nurturing care for local children. After many years of discussions, plans and applications to the Department for Education, the academy opened in September 2014 in portacabins and finally moved into its permanent home in September 2022.
Our academy vision is to ensure that all of our students become ‘Ready for University, Ready to Lead’. We have held tightly to the original dreams that the community had for our school, creating an environment where we have high academic aspirations for every student as well as ensuring we support and develop each child into growing and developing as a leader. Our small size means that every child is known by our staff and that we have a strong community feel where children want to learn and to behave well.
Application process
If you would like to know more about Oasis Academy Silvertown, please see our website http://www.oasisacademysilvertown.org and Instagram. In order to arrange a visit to the academy prior to your application, please contact Zaynab Kadir, PA to Principal & Senior Leadership Administrator: zaynab.kadir@oasissilvertown.org
Completed forms should be submitted through the OCL Careers site. Link to the website can be found here.
Commitment to safeguarding
Oasis Community Learning is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including an enhanced DBS check.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Oasis Academy Silvertown
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 489 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Oasis Academy Silvertown website
- Email address
- zaynab.kadir@oasissilvertown.org
- Phone number
- 02070592500
Oasis Academy Silvertown is a successful, oversubscribed inclusive secondary academy in the Royal Docks area of East London. Oasis Silvertown received its first Ofsted Inspection in May 2017 and were delighted to be awarded “good” with 3 “outstanding” judgements for Leadership and Management, Personal Development, Behaviour, Welfare and Student Outcomes. We received an ungraded visit in September 2022 and are delighted to remain “good” with an excellent report. We have an ambitious mission statement for all our students: Ready for University. Ready to Lead. Our mission is underpinned by our core values, which staff and students hold: Be proud, be professional, be nice, be independent, and be resilient.
We moved into our state-of-the-art building in September 2022 and are delighted to be in our permanent home in the heart of the West Silvertown community.
Arranging a visit to Oasis Academy Silvertown
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email zaynab.kadir@oasissilvertown.org.
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