Lead Practitioner Maths
Marine Academy Plymouth, Plymouth, PL5 2AF19 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
3 February 2025 at 8am
Date listed
13 January 2025
Job details
Job role
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- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Mathematics
Working pattern
- Full time: 32.5 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- L1-L4
What skills and experience we're looking for
Thank you for your interest in joining our school. We're proud to have been rated 'Good' by Ofsted and are working to become a national leader in education. At MAP, we are driven by a clear and ambitious core belief: every student who joins us has the potential to get to and through university. While we recognize that this may not be the right path for all of our students, we firmly believe that having this option is a hallmark of a successful, high-quality education—one that enables our students to excel in top careers and live their best lives. We combine academic rigor with a joyful learning experience, ensuring our students gain the knowledge, experiences, and support needed to achieve their dreams. Relocation package available for the right candidate.
We are looking for a committed and talented Lead Practitioner in Maths available to start September 2025. In this role you will have a leading role in shaping the provision of T&L within mathematics and across the Academy as well as a leading role in whole school CPD. If you are ambitious, have a history of excellent outcomes, have a deep interest in the latest educational research and wish to work with the best children in the Southwest please apply for this exciting role which acts as a natural pathway to Senior Leadership.
Please only apply if you passionately believe:
- Background or home-life is not an excuse for failure or poor behaviour.
- Every student should have the option to attend University when they leave.
- Discipline, hard work, consistency and routines underpin student wellbeing and happiness.
- That group work, and ‘active learning’ are overrated.
- That academic rigour, challenge and knowledge acquisition are vital to success.
- That the curriculum should be sequenced, highly structured and knowledge rich.
- That school leaders remove barriers for colleagues so that they can grow and excel.
- That kindness, resilience and aspiration are valuable characteristics to grow in children.
If you believe all of these things, are professionally ambitious and driven to transform the lives of the children of our community and city then please apply for the position of Lead Practitioner- Maths. You will need to be a subject specialist and have a proven track record of excellent outcomes in this area. You will train to become an expert coach and the improvement of colleagues will be fundamental to this rare and exciting opportunity.
What the school offers its staff
We also prioritize staff well-being, offering work-life balance, professional development, and collaboration through the Ted Wragg Trust.We are proud to have nationally recognised for our commitment to staff wellbeing and workload reduction. Benefits of working as a teacher at MAP include:
- Fortnightly ‘Golden PPA’ where teachers can work from home
- No written marking
- Centralised, fully resourced curriculum
- Centralised behaviour system
- Weekly instructional coaching
- Protected time in your timetable to be able to contact parents
- Meetings only take place on a Monday
- Support as part of the Ted Wragg Trust
If you value knowledge, consistency of approach, the very highest academic and behavioural expectations of students and wish to be at the cutting edge of educational development then please apply for the post of Science Teacher. Subject specialism essential.
Devon is an amazing place to live and work so if moving from elsewhere a relocation package available for the right candidate.
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 Marine Academy Plymouth
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 973 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@marineacademy.org.uk
Arranging a visit to Marine Academy Plymouth
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