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This job expired on 18 May 2025

  • Start date details

    September 2025

  • Closing date

    18 May 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    17 March 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Head of department or curriculum

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£52,301.00 - £57,720.00 Annually (Actual)

Lead Practitioner - English job summary

JOIN OUR MISSION TO BECOME ONE OF THE BEST SCHOOLS IN THE COUNTRY!

We are seeking a Lead Practitioner of English to join our thriving team. Your role is to deliver excellent outcomes and develop pedagogy within the department. Join a team of enthusiastic subject-specialists committed to maintaining high levels of behaviour and discipline. This role is suitible for anyone who has a track record of delivering excellent outcomes with a strong pedagogical understanding.

What We Offer:

  • A knowledge-rich curriculum built on ‘powerful knowledge’ and traditional T&L approaches.
  • Collaborative planning with centralised, shared units of work and resources.
  • Excellent support from the Astrea Trust Central team.
  • A feedback policy focused on whole class feedback.
  • Disruption-free learning and a ‘warm/strict’ behaviour system.
  • Highly visible/supportive senior leaders.
  • Centralised detentions, including homework detentions.
  • No formal graded lesson observations – just ongoing ‘no-stakes’ instructional coaching and feedback.
  • Excellent ongoing CPD, career development, and promotion opportunities across the Astrea Cambridgeshire region.
  • Opportunity to complete NPQs.

What We Are Looking For:

  • A highly effective and inspiring practitioner who can motivate children and colleagues.
  • Someone aligned to our values and mission.
  • Someone who passionately believes that all children can achieve, no matter their starting point, background, or needs.

Interested in Applying? If you’re interested in this role, looking for a new challenge, or have a passion for education, take a look at the Applicant Brief to find out more about the role and how to apply. We actively welcome visits and would be delighted to show you around our Academy.

Safeguarding and Diversity: Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks. We value diversity and encourage applications from candidates who are underrepresented in our workforce, including people from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, and LGBTQI+ communities.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
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Commitment to safeguarding

Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks.

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About Ernulf Academy

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 16
Education phase
Secondary
School size
743 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 16
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School website
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Principal’s welcome – Ernulf Academy

Welcome to Ernulf Academy, an 11-16 secondary school in St.Neots located in North Cambridgeshire. The academy is part of Astrea Academy Trust, a highly successful multi-academy trust of primary and secondary academies in Cambridgeshire and South Yorkshire.
Ernulf Academy is a school fully committed to an inclusive, comprehensive curriculum for all, which is underpinned by our five core values: scholarship, curiosity, tenacity, responsibility and respect. These values are at the heart of our vision for the school and the important qualities and characteristics we want all pupils to develop. Our pupils are encouraged to develop confidence, independence and resilience. We strive for them to be ambitious and ‘be the best they can be’, whilst being considerate, tolerant and willing to contribute positively to the wider community.
Work hard

We firmly believe in a disruption free learning environment and as such we have established nine core routines which form the basis of our academic day. A knowledge-rich curriculum, built on ‘powerful knowledge,’ underpins our teaching and learning principles. We offer a traditional approach to teaching and learning following evidence-based research by Rosenshine and Teach Like A Champion (TLAC) which lead to inspiring and stimulating lessons. Our enrichment provision aims to take learning outside the classroom and we offer an extensive range of extra-curricular activities including sporting activities, residential visits and educational experiences.

Safeguarding is at the heart of what we do and we recognise the challenges that our pupils face. Therefore, we have a dedicated pastoral team with a Head of Year and Pastoral Co-ordinator for each year group and a ‘Wellbeing’ team including our school therapy dog.

Be kind

Ernulf Academy is a friendly and supportive school, which prides itself on treating everyone as individuals and having a ‘family’ atmosphere. We teach our pupils empathy and respect, and we have a zero tolerance to bullying. A scholarly approach is at our core but enabling our pupils to have a holistic education, preparing them for life in the 21st century and becoming global citizens is just as important.

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