27 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    February 2026

  • Closing date

    19 November 2025 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    23 October 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Subject

Economics

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£52,026.00 - £57,417.00 Annually (FTE)

Lead Practitioner in Economics job summary

We are seeking an inspirational and dynamic Lead Practitioner of Economics to join our highly successful Social Science Faculty, working in the Economics and Business department. This exceptional opportunity is perfect for a candidate who is ready to share their expertise and skills across the wider school community, driving excellence in teaching and learning.


We are looking for an exceptional candidate who:

  • Is an Economics specialist with a passion for their subject, committed to ensuring that all students see the beauty and the value of studying Economics beyond simply having to pass examinations.

  • Is an outstanding practitioner, able to teach both Economics and Business Studies at all levels, including to A* at A Level.

  • Will be a positive, dynamic, and impactful leader at SHSG with a proven track record of improving teaching and learning and leading students to achieving exceptional results.

  • Will develop further the Social Science Faculty’s excellent academic performance and range of super-curricular provision.

  • Will be committed to continuing to raise the profile of Economics across the school.

  • Working with the Senior Team, will actively contribute to the strategic direction of the school.

We can offer you:

  • highly motivated, ambitious students

  • excellent facilities

  • a strong, highly qualified committed team of subject experts

  • a commitment to ongoing professional development

  • an environment which promotes innovation

About Southend High School for Girls

“Pupils flourish and excel at Southend High School for Girls.”
- Ofsted, July 2024

Southend High School for Girls (SHSG) is an outstanding grammar school with academy status, proudly educating generations of students for over a century. We blend tradition with innovation, creating a dynamic learning environment where students are safe, happy, and successful.

Our school is a family-orientated community where pupils thrive. Students achieve exceptionally high outcomes and benefit from an ambitious curriculum and an exemplary careers education programme. As one pupil told Ofsted, “The school will literally help you do anything you want to do.”

We offer a vast range of clubs, trips, productions, and leadership opportunities, including the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme and World Challenge. Students are encouraged to lead and contribute, with many acting as ambassadors and house captains.

SHSG is proud to be a member of NACE (National Association for Able Children in Education), reflecting our commitment to stretching and challenging all learners. Our curriculum goes far beyond the National Curriculum, with students in Key Stage 3 studying three separate sciences and two languages, and engaging in ‘super-curricular’ tasks that promote independent research and critical thinking.

Staff are passionate, well-supported, and receive high-quality professional development. Our shared ethos of high expectations, mutual respect, and continuous improvement makes SHSG a truly special place to work.

All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check. This is a customer-facing role needing fluent spoken English and excellent communication skills.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
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Commitment to safeguarding

All staff at Southend High School for Girls have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful applicant will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check.

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About Southend High School for Girls

School type
Academy, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1253 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
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School website
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Southend High School for Girls is a grammar school with academy status with approximately 1260 students including a sixth form of 360 students.
The school is situated on Southchurch Boulevard in the east of the City of Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
Southend High School for Girls is built on strong traditions and values and has a long and illustrious history of over 100 years of educating the brightest minds in the country. At the core of our philosophy, we believe that students should be safe, happy and successful.
Our team of staff are all experts in their fields and are passionate about the education and well-being of our young people. We are unashamedly ambitious for them and aspire to create a pervasive ethos of high expectations and promote discipline and good behaviour in school life.
Our moral purpose is to ensure that our students experience a rigorous and stretching academic education on the one hand, and outstanding wider personal development on the other. We believe that our students should develop high self-efficacy and self-belief and be confident and fearless – demonstrating resilience in the face of challenges.
Being a member of a high-performing grammar school demands hard work, fortitude and a can-do attitude; participation, energy and commitment are our non-negotiables – but the results are well worth it.
If Southend High School for Girls sounds like the sort of place where you would like to work – and where you feel you could make a major contribution to its continuing success – then we would love to hear from you.

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