Lead Practitioner: English

Longsands Academy, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 1LQ

15 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  20 April 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  4 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: English
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £54,941.00 - £60,644.00 Annually (FTE) Lead Practitioner Scale 4 - 8

Lead Practitioner: English job summary

Join Our Team as a Lead Practitioner: English at Longsands Academy!

Are you an experienced English teacher with a passion for raising standards and enhancing teaching practices? Longsands Academy is seeking a dedicated Lead Practitioner: English to work with the Head of English in driving scholar progress and curriculum development. This role is pivotal in ensuring a high-quality, balanced, and relevant curriculum for students.

About the Role:

As a Lead Practitioner: English, you will support the Head of English in the leadership and development of the department. You will join a team of subject-specialists who are experienced, reflective, and enthusiastic, maintaining high levels of behaviour and discipline. Your role will be pivotal in raising standards of student attainment and achievement within the department, monitoring and supporting student progress, and supporting staff development to meet those aims.

Key Responsibilities:

• Formulate and implement strategic plans for the English department.
• Lead the English curriculum from KS3 to KS4.
• Establish common standards of practice and enhance teaching and learning effectiveness.
• Produce reports and contribute to the academy's quality assurance processes.
• Develop syllabuses, resources, schemes of work, and assessment strategies.
• Monitor and support scholar progress and development.
• Implement academy policies and procedures.
• Use data to monitor progress, set targets, and plan lessons.
• Manage behaviour effectively to ensure a safe learning environment.

What We Offer:

• Huge support and progression opportunities.
• Excellent support from Astrea central team colleagues.
• Highly visible/supportive senior leaders who have your back.
• Excellent ongoing CPD, career development, and promotion opportunities across the Astrea Cambridgeshire region.
• A very pleasant location in beautiful Cambridgeshire.

About Us:

Longsands Academy is an 11-18 fully-inclusive secondary school serving the community of St Neots and the surrounding area. The academy has around 1750 students including 250 in the Sixth Form. Longsands is proud of its inclusive and aspirational approach, whether supporting students preparing for Oxbridge or working with students with special educational needs. The academy also has a strong track record of supporting staff by ensuring excellent mentoring, a supportive culture, and many opportunities for development and involvement in wider school activities.

Why Join Us?

Astrea Academy Trust is committed to providing an inclusive, aspirational, and academic education for all our scholars. We believe in teaching powerful knowledge and creating a scholarly culture that is warm, strict, disciplined, and joyful. Our values-driven approach ensures impeccable behaviour, allowing teachers to focus on teaching and pupils to focus on learning.

Interested in Applying?

If this is something you’re interested in, looking for a new challenge, have a passion for education, or maybe all of the above, 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 to fully appreciate our excellent learning environment.

Closing Date: The closing date for applications is Sunday, 20 April 2025. Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity! The academy reserves the right to interview shortlisted candidates during the application window.

Commitment to Safeguarding and EDI:

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. As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to promoting a culture that ensures there are no barriers to the recruitment, development, and progression of disabled staff across the trust. We provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate their abilities.

Ready to Make a Difference?

If you're ready to take the next step in your career and contribute to our dynamic and forward-thinking team, apply today and be a part of our mission to create a positive impact!

The Astrea Resourcing Team supports this job advert. Agency involvement is not required.

Commitment to safeguarding

Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and we expect all staff to share this commitment.

Applying for the job

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About Longsands Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1653 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Longsands Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/longsands-academy

Longsands Academy, part of Astrea Academy Trust, is a successful, fully-inclusive secondary school at the heart of its community. We pride ourselves on providing an engaging and supportive environment in which our students feel empowered to reach and embrace their full potential with confidence. Our staff are committed to nurturing the abilities of every child with a curriculum which promotes academic excellence and is delivered by subject specialists. The opportunities we provide allow all students to showcase their talents, whether through the traditional school day or as a result of the wealth of extra-curricular activities on offer. Furthermore, in order to develop the important qualities of independent learning and resilience, our students are encouraged to take responsibility for their learning both in and out of lessons. We are extremely proud of the achievements of our students that are a result of the high expectations, students’ hard work and commitment and the supportive relationships that exist between staff, students and their parents/carers.

The pursuit of academic excellence is at the heart of the Academy. Through high expectations of behaviour, a commitment to great standards of teaching delivering a knowledge-rich curriculum, and positive working relationships with all members of the academy community, all students, regardless of their background or personal circumstances, are encouraged to achieve their academic aspirations. We believe that schools must teach powerful knowledge that takes students beyond their everyday experiences. We believe in a traditional, subject-based approach to teaching in order to create a scholarly culture that is disciplined and joyful. We want to ensure that we open doors for every students’ future and develop in them a life-long love of learning.

We are committed to developing our staff to be the very best that they can be by striving to ensure that all of our colleagues can access high-quality Continuing Professional Development (CPD). Our CPD programme is both department-based and in collaboration with academies within the Astrea family and external partners. Wide-ranging opportunities for professional development are available for staff at all stages of their career, including ECTs, experienced classroom teachers, middle and senior leaders and support staff.

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