Lead Practitioner - Geography

Ernulf Academy, St. Neots, PE19 2SH

23 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  27 April 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  2 April 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Geography
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £52,301.00 - £57,720.00 Annually (Actual)

Lead Practitioner - Geography job summary

Lead Practitioner - Geography

Location: Ernulf Academy
Salary: Lead Practitioner 2 – 6 (£52,301 - £57,720)
Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time (32.5 hours per week, 52 weeks per year) - Would consider Part Time hours as well

About the Role:

Ernulf Academy is seeking a dedicated and dynamic Lead Practitioner in Geography to join our team. The successful candidate will support the Head of Humanities in leading and managing the Geography department, working strategically to develop a well-sequenced curriculum and consistent teaching pedagogy. This role is pivotal in ensuring all students make expected progress across Key Stages 3 and 4.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement and deliver a broad, balanced, relevant, and differentiated curriculum for students.
• Lead on specific responsibilities within the department and drive high-quality teaching and learning strategies.
• Use coaching and feedback to develop teaching and learning strategies to improve whole school provision and student outcomes.
• Plan and deliver engaging, differentiated lessons that meet the needs of all learners.
• Monitor and assess pupil progress, providing high-quality feedback and interventions.
• Maintain productive communication with parents regarding pupil progress and development.
• Lead and manage quality assurance processes within the Geography department.
• Contribute to the overall leadership of the academy through specific duties as directed by the Principal.

Person Specification:

• Education and Training: Qualified Teacher Status, Good Honours Degree, evidence of outstanding teaching.
• Experience: Proven track record of positive pupil outcomes, experience in leading others, and a commitment to self-improvement as a professional.
• Skills: Excellent communication, organisational, and IT skills, ability to manage change effectively, and inspire trust and respect.

Why Join Us?

At Ernulf Academy, we foster a safe and supportive environment with high expectations, mutual respect, and a love for learning. If you align with our values and mission, you will thrive in our community.

Our Vision: We are values-driven and our vision is to provide an inclusive, aspirational, and academic education for all our students, so that all of them will learn, thrive, and lead successful lives. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, no matter what their background, prior attainment, or needs. We want to ensure that all our students have the option to go to university or pursue an aspirational alternative.

What We Are Looking For:

• Experience working with young people aged 11-16.
• Experience of working in a classroom/unit setting.
• Appropriate IT skills to support learning.
• Good understanding of child development and the learning process.

What We Offer:

• Generous annual leave entitlement.
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme and Employee Assistance Programme.
• Continued professional development and training opportunities.
• Free on-site parking.

Interested in Applying? If you are interested in this role, 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. If you would like to visit or have any questions about the role, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Safeguarding and Diversity: 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. 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.

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 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.

Applying for the job

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Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Ernulf Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 733 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Ernulf Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/ernulf-academy

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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