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Lead Practitioner - English

Spires Academy, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 0HD

This job expired on 10 May 2024 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  September 2024

• Closing date

  10 May 2024 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  1 May 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: English
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £58,959.00 - £65,010.00 Annually (Actual) LPR10 -LPR14

Lead Practitioner - English job summary

Promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young persons for who you are responsible and with whom you come into contact. To inspire and motivate students to have a love of learning of English by:

• Carry out teaching responsibilities in line with the professional duties of a teacher
• Model consistently high-quality teaching and be able to demonstrate excellent practice to others
• Produce high-quality teaching materials that support excellent practice
• Prepare and deliver subject based training courses across the school and Trust to improve teachers’ practice
• Carry out lesson observations, providing feedback and implementing strategies to improve practice
• Provide instructional coaching to individual teachers in need of 1-to-1 support to improve their practice Use data to identify individuals or groups that need further teaching support and develop and implement strategies to raise the quality of teaching
• Use data to identify individuals or groups of pupils that need targeted support, and develop and implement strategies to raise achievement
• Set challenging and ambitious targets for pupils on interventions and update parents on progress

Improving quality of teaching and learning

• Measure and assess the impact of interventions to raise achievement for pupils and the quality of teaching
• Promote strategies which support differentiation, inclusion and positive behaviour
• Provide support schools in subject area across the Trust when required

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Co-ordinate and carry out monitoring and evaluation activities to improve teaching and learning, including work scrutinies, lesson observations, learning walks etc
• Use systems to analyse data from monitoring and evaluation, and use insights to inform strategies and plans for teacher development
• Support with self-evaluation and school improvement planning across the subject and school

Professional Development

• Lead on researching best practice and keeping up-to-date with the latest developments
• Share knowledge with staff and offer support to implement the research into their own practice Inform staff about the latest innovations in intervention strategies
• Lead on identifying high quality CPD programmes to improve quality of teaching and learning
• Take part in the school’s appraisal procedures
• Take part in further training and development in order to improve own practice
• Where appropriate, take part in the appraisal and professional development of others
• Add any other duties of particular relevance to your school Management of staff and resources
• Direct and supervise support staff assigned to them, and where appropriate, other teachers
• Contribute to the recruitment and professional development of other teachers and support staff
• Deploy resources delegated to them

Safeguarding

• Work in line with statutory safeguarding guidance (e.g. Keeping Children Safe in Education, Prevent) and our safeguarding and child protection policies
• Work with the designated safeguarding lead (DSL) to promote the best interests of pupils, including sharing concerns where necessary
• Promote the safeguarding of all pupils in the school.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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About Spires Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 690 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: Spires Academy website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/spires-academy (opens in new tab)

At Spires Academy we offer a distinctive small school environment where each individual is well known, listened to and encouraged to be the best they can be. Serving just over 600 students enables us to maintain an inclusive and nurturing community atmosphere, where staff work with students to develop the skills, confidence and knowledge needed to reach their full potential.

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