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  • Job start date

    1 September 2025

  • Closing date

    26 February 2025 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    5 February 2025

Job details

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Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

Lead Practitioner 9 (£60943)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Are you an outstanding English teacher with a passion for teaching and learning with the skills to inspire both students and staff while driving excellence in English education?

We have an exciting opportunity for a Lead Practitioner who wants to make a real difference to teaching and learning in English and across the school. We want to appoint an innovative, enthusiastic and talented teacher as Lead Practitioner for English to play a key role in improving the quality of teaching and learning across the department and improve outcomes for students at GCSE and A-Level.

You will lead, develop and deliver professional development to staff, coach and mentor colleagues to ensure consistent, excellent teaching practices and act as a role model by teaching high-quality English lessons. You will work closely with both the Head of English and the Senior Leadership Team to make teaching and learning more effective both in the English department and across the school.

We are looking for an excellent classroom practitioner with a track record of getting outstanding outcomes for students and who demonstrates a passion for the teaching of English. The successful candidate will have the skills, experience and personal qualities to inspire and develop others. You will have a commitment to student success and be innovative, proactive and able to drive continuous improvement.

What the school offers its staff

This is an exciting time to join Caldew School. We have had a significant investment from the Cumberland Support Trust that is enabling us to improve our facilities, provide high quality professional development for our staff and give our students opportunities, experiences and support that will raise their aspirations and achievement.

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Commitment to safeguarding

All roles involve regulated activity with children. You should not apply if you are on the Children’s Barred List.
Caldew School is committed to the protection and safety of its pupils. Our Safeguarding Policy can be found using the following link:
www.caldew.cumbria.sch.uk/uploads/941/Safeguarding_Policy_2023.pdf/
In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education, online searches will be carried out on shortlisted candidates. The successful applicant will be required to undertake a criminal record check via the DBS.
Caldew School is an equal opportunities employer.

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About Caldew School

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
977 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Phone number
01228 710044

Caldew School is a popular, rural 11-18 mixed comprehensive school situated south of the city of Carlisle with a catchment area that extends to the fringe of the Lake District. We have 1000 pupils on roll including a Sixth Form of 160. The school is heavily over-subscribed and the roll is steady.

We have a good and improving track record of achievement at all examination levels, good resources and facilities and a rich programme of visits and extra-curricular activities.

Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people in everyone's responsibility at Caldew School and we take this very seriously. We adopt an approach which is child-centred. This means that all staff at Caldew School consider, at all times, what is in our students' best interests. The Safeguarding Team work within the school to ensure that all of our students are safe, happy and thriving. All staff have a duty of care to make sure students are safe and this means that information may need to be shared with other agencies and organisations to make sure that our students and their families get the best possible support.

Our Ofsted inspection in June 2022 graded Caldew as ‘good’. However, we are not complacent and we know that there are areas where we need to do better.

Arranging a visit to Caldew School

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email helen.vasilic@caldew.cumbria.sch.uk.

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