Lead Practitioner for Mathematics

Bosworth Academy, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE9 9JL

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  August 2025

• Closing date

  7 May 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  28 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
• Subject: Mathematics
• Working pattern: Full time, part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £55, 209 to £59,457
• Pay scale: LP Scale 5 -8

What skills and experience we're looking for

Qualifications and Professional Learning

Essential

Appropriate Degree

Qualified Teacher Status

Experience of teaching across 11-18 age range

Effective team member and leader

Desirable

Understanding of how the ‘professional learning journey’ as part of CPL impacts on student outcomes

Evidence of a range of supportive professional development

Evidence of post-qualification development

Professional Development Learning and Teaching

Essential

Evidence of commitment to own professional development

Established and evidenced practice as an outstanding teacher over a prolonged period

Experience of leading on aspects of learning and teaching initiatives beyond own classroom

Excellent understanding of what constitutes outstanding teaching and learning practice

Experience of coaching, mentoring and conducting lesson observations

Understanding of current curriculum issues with own subject and able to support colleagues in curriculum development

Desirable

Direct impact on professional development of others that has raised student achievement

Evidence of leading professional learning for staff

Experience of providing effective feedback to colleagues to improve their performance

Skills and Experience

Essential

Excellent interpersonal skills

The ability to foster positive professional relationships and work effectively with staff of varying experience

Innovative approaches to raising student attainment through high quality learning strategies and monitoring progress

Enthusiasm and passion for teaching and learning and own subject

Understanding of the importance of the inter-relationship between all areas of the curriculum in a secondary school

Knowledge of learning technologies and how they add to the teaching and learning experience of students

Effective use of assessment for learning to engage learners

Ability to plan and resource interventions to meet student/curricular needs

Excellent knowledge of classroom skills and Teacher Standards

Willingness to deliver the school’s PSHE programme

Desirable

Awareness of recent developments and initiatives in education

Leadership

Experience of leading staff and securing quality outcomes

Motivate, challenge and inspire colleagues to provide outstanding provision for learners

Be a strong role model for staff and students

To have a shared vision for learning through teamwork, collaboration and ensuring a consistent approach

Ability to analyse data to identify trends and intervene as appropriate

Have secured elements of excellent practice that have been shared with colleagues to improve their practice

Desirable

Play a proactive part in networks wider than the Academy

Evidence of effective classroom management strategies

Evidence of being an effective member of a team

Contribute to appraisal of staff

Parents/Guardians and the Community

Essential

Understanding the importance of the Multi-Academy Trust in securing the best outcomes for all students in our community

Knowledge of the ethos of Bosworth Academy

Evidence of effective relationships with young people

Desirable

Evidence of involvement with Community groups and/or Parents

What the school offers its staff

Putting your trust in our Trust

We believe in your development. Everything we do is about creating a team of committed professionals who share our ambition for young people. If you believe in this too, we are committed to providing an exciting, enjoyable and rewarding working environment.

Coaching

Coaching is integral to our success. We support colleagues through coaching; enabling deep reflection, which has allowed us to build a bold, creative and aspirational culture, where collaboration with peers and new approaches to practice are encouraged.

Personal Improvement Plan

versus Performance Management

Instead of the usual Performance Management, we encourage our staff to identify aspirational targets through our ‘Personal Improvement Plan’ (PIP) process. With your coach, you will look to make significant progress in a critical area of your practice; we believe in valuing the process of improvement not pass or fail numerical targets.

Health and Wellbeing Strategies

Having happy and healthy staff is key to a successful organisation. The Trust is committed to:

• providing employees with a safe, healthy and supportive environment in which to work
• recognising that the health and wellbeing of our employees is important
• providing a supportive workplace culture where individuals healthy lifestyle choices are valued and encouraged

We are committed to supporting colleagues to overcome the stigma and discrimination of mental health issues within the work place. To show our commitment to this we have publicly signed up to ‘Mindful Employer’ and the ‘Charter for Employers who are Positive about Mental Health’.

We believe it is important that we are role models to our students of how to be a healthy adult. We actively promote the importance of a work life balance, offering support to staff on managing stress and workload, as well as a physical activity programme.Access to coaching, counselling and supervision is also available to all staff.

Equality and Equal Opportunities

Our Trust and its schools are committed to ensuring equality of opportunity in line with the Equality Act 2010. The Trust seeks to reduce disadvantages, discrimination and inequalities of opportunity, and promote diversity in terms of its students, workforce and our wider communities we serve.

Presumed Professionalism

We have a ‘Presumed Professionalism’ ethos across the Trust. Our staff are professional educators and we recognise the need to support staff to enable a healthy work life balance to allow maximum impact whilst working with our young people and each other. We achieve this by allowing staff to sign out during their free periods, as long as professional duties are not affected. See our policy for further details.

Development of Professional Capital and Excellence

As a Trust we always look to invest in our staff and pride ourselves on our ‘home grown talent’. We are proud of this and believe this has the biggest impact on how our staff understand their communities and make a difference to the lives of our young people.

Quite simply, our aim is to employ people who match our ethos and values and enable them to truly collaborate with colleagues across the Trust so that they are satisfied professionally. We provide outstanding training pathways which draw on excellence both within and outside of our Trust to enable you to build your professional capital.

Examples of the many opportunities we encourage staff to take up externally include:

• The National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH)
• The National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership (NPQSL)
• The National Professional Qualification for Middle Leadership (NPQML)
• The Outstanding Teacher Programme (OTP)
• Initial Teacher Training (ITT)

Pathways are available at apprenticeship level, ECT, aspiring middle leader, Lead Practitioner and aspiring senior leader level. Some of these courses are led by staff within the Trust and others are externally accredited. In addition, the Trust provides the opportunity of becoming an associate SLT member, enabling middle leaders to gain insight and experience of leadership at the highest level within a school.

Support staff have their own Personal Improvement Plan that they use as a tool to create a bespoke professional development plan. All support staff also receive Coaching and training opportunities, in order to help them feel empowered and in charge of their own development.

Across the Trust we pride ourselves on equal opportunities for all staff, irrespective of background, gender, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age.

Great access to progression and leadership responsibility

Further evidence of our investment in ‘home grown talent’ is that 86% of our TLR holders have been internal appointments. We have clear professional progression pathways within the CPD offered throughout the year at all levels within the Trust.

Collaboration across all schools

We are continually developing relationships across our Trust to enable collaboration to support learning and teaching outcomes. In addition, we are able to offer a joint CPD programme to draw upon expertise across the Trust. Staff work and meet regularly in teams across schools in the Trust and we hold an annual Strategic Planning Day, where each member of the Trust work together.

Sabbatical and flexible working policies

We have developed a unique sabbatical policy to support staff to develop their interests. For some, this has been to develop professionally, whilst others have taken this time to experience travel with their family. See our policy for further details.

Flexible working arrangements are also promoted across the Trust where possible, to enable our staff to manage their work life and family commitments.

Strong Induction Process

It is important to us that every member of staff has the right start to working in our Trust. The importance of a good induction is invaluable for new starters irrespective of previous experience. To support this, we have a New Staff Induction Day before the start of term, which enables colleagues to get a real understanding of what the school is about and what it means to be part of the Trust. This day also prepares new staff for our training (conference) days at the beginning of the Autumn term. In addition to this ALL staff are invited to visit a series of lessons across the school year.

ECF Programme

We offer Early Career Teacher a robust, supportive and bespoke training programme which will enable you to develop into an outstanding teacher.

Continued ECT and ECT support

Where possible we try to ensure that ECTs and second year ECT teachers have reduced teaching loads to allow them more opportunities for CPD throughout the school week. This also allows for peer to peer observations and additional coaching to take place to develop their practice.

3DJ Networks

3DJ Networks are an opportunity for faculties to share good practice and new ideas with colleagues across the school, based on our unique 3DJ Learning and Teaching model.

Attendance of staff

Our staff are committed to their roles and ensure that students are supported to maximise their outcomes. Levels of attendance are exceptionally high across all schools and well above national averages in the education sector and beyond.

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.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

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Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Recruitment Pack Maths LP August 25.pdf - 2.02 MB (opens in new tab)

About Bosworth Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1613 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Bosworth Academy website
• Email address: hr@bosworthacademy.org.uk
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/bosworth-academy

Bosworth Academy is a popular and expanding 11-19 school, within the LiFE Multi-Academy Trust, which is increasingly the school of choice for parents in the area. We have high expectations of all our staff, which makes our faculty an exciting and progressive environment in which to work. The team is forward thinking and extremely supportive of each other, working collaboratively to secure high standards of teaching and learning. We are passionate in our goal of ensuring that our students get every opportunity to be the best they can possibly be.

Bosworth Academy is the lead school in the LiFE Multi Academy Trust, which has been recognised by Ofsted as an ‘Outstanding’ school in our recent inspection. We continue to develop our practice as we believe our community deserves nothing less and were awarded ‘World Class Status’.

Arranging a visit to Bosworth Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hr@bosworthacademy.org.uk.

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