Lead Practitioner - Maths
Orion Eden Park, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 3RD20 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
22 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
21 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Mathematics
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- LPR 10-14 (Outer London)
Lead Practitioner - Maths job summary
Based at Orion Eden Park
Orion Education is a values-led organisation, driven by a determination to create welcoming and open schools for the local community, where every person thrives, makes excellent progress, and succeeds. We are committed to improving outcomes and transforming lives, realising social mobility, and the transformative power of education. We value the difference in all of our schools while seeking to bring them together around a framework that delivers an enriching experience and a great education for the young people within our care.
We want the very best for all of our young people. Our plan to ensure that we deliver great schools is underpinned by our shared values of trust, kindness, and endeavour. Our schools and our staff are collaborative and we seek to create consistency and quality throughout.
Our leaders create improvement in schools that is robust and sustainable. We are as enthusiastic about developing and nurturing our staff, as we are about developing our young people. Our professional development programs and our approach to school improvement provide quality and rigor while creating a depth of experience and learning for our staff.
Improving quality of teaching and learningModel 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 1-2-1 support to improve their practice
Promote strategies which support differentiation, inclusion and positive behaviour
Provide school support in subject area across the Trust when required
Provide support as directed to support the teaching and learning of the school
To keep up to date with the latest research on teaching and learning, ensuring that effective practice makes its way to the classroom and policy design where appropriate.
Monitoring and evaluation
Co-ordinate and carry out monitoring and evaluation activities to improve teaching and learning, including work scruitinise, 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 school
Curriculum
To ensure the delivery of an appropriate, comprehensive, high quality and cost-effective curriculum that has high expectations of achievement for all students
To support development of the subjects within the faculty and its delivery, reviewing it regularly in the light of school and national policies, as well as the impact on achievement
To be responsible for the development of Work-Related Learning and literacy strategy through the subject areas in line with school policies
To work with others to embed cross curricular Literacy across the school, that is effective in raising standards
Staff Development: Recruitment/Deployment of StaffTo support in building an effective team of motivated teaching and support staff who share the School vision of high achievement for all students
To induct, guide and support all staff in the subject areas, ensuring training needs are met, in liaison with the Assistant Principal with responsibility for professional learning
To be responsible for the performance management of staff in the subject area, in line with the School performance management policy
To liaise with the Assistant Principal on all matters concerning recruitment and retention of staff, including participation in any interview process to ensure recruitment of high-quality personnel
To make appropriate arrangements for classes when staff are absent
To participate in the school ITT and ECT training and induction programmes
In liaison with the Assistant Principal responsible for Professional Learning, ensuring staff training needs are met
QualityAssuranceTo ensure that challenging targets for achievement are set, communicated to staff and students and that all staff work positively towards reaching them
To work with the Head of Faculty to monitor and evaluate the work of the subject area, in line with agreed school procedures, including evaluation against quality standards and performance criteria
Accountable for ensuring rigorous and effective systems of self-evaluation and review are carried out in line with school policy and that information collected through the process is used to make changes that will impact positively on student achievement
*We reserve the right to this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Orion Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Orion Education is fully committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education.
Commitment to safeguarding
Education for the 21st Century is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Education for the 21st Century is fully committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Orion Eden Park
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 19
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1303 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 19
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Orion Eden Park website
Education for the 21st Century is a values-led organisation, driven by a determination to create welcoming and open schools for the local community, where every person thrives, makes excellent progress, and succeeds. We are committed to improving outcomes and transforming lives, realising social mobility, and the transformative power of education. We value the difference in all of our schools while seeking to bring them together around a framework that delivers an enriching experience and a great education for the young people within our care.
We want the very best for all of our young people. Our plan to ensure that we deliver great schools is underpinned by our shared values of trust, kindness, and endeavour. Our schools and our staff are collaborative, and we seek to create consistency and quality throughout.
Our leaders create improvement in schools that is robust and sustainable. We are as enthusiastic about developing and nurturing our staff, as we are about developing our young people. Our professional development programs and our approach to school improvement provide quality and rigor while creating a depth of experience and learning for our staff.
In joining Eden Park High School and the family of schools within E21C you will gain access to an unparalleled level of support and development in a forward-thinking school and trust.
Eden Park High School is a new school in Beckenham. We opened in 2017, moved into our purpose-built new premises in 2019, celebrated our first ever GCSE results in 2022 and have opened our new Sixth Form this September. With a new and expanded leadership team, this young school is starting an exciting new chapter as we build the culture, systems and teams that will see us expand further over the next two years and deliver an outstanding quality of education for the community.
We are currently recruiting exceptional teachers and support staff who want to be part of our journey of transformation. We want people who will share in our ethos and values and set a new standard of excellence and inspire young minds.
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