Lead Practitioner Maths

Astrea Academy Woodfields, Doncaster, DN4 8ND

13 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  TBC

• Closing date

  22 September 2025 at 12:59am

• Date listed

  8 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £57,139.00 - £64,644.00 Annually (Actual)

Lead Practitioner Maths job summary

Lead Practitioner Maths - Astrea Academy Woodfields

Full-Time | Permanent

Are you ready to take the next step in your leadership journey and make a lasting impact on students’ lives? Astrea Academy Woodfields is seeking a passionate and driven Lead Practitioner of Maths to join our ambitious team and lead transformational change in teaching and learning.

In this pivotal role, you will champion excellence in Maths across the academy, ensuring the highest standards of learning, development, and achievement for all scholars. You will plan, prepare, and assess work for all students, including those who are absent, suspended, or in isolation, ensuring no learner is left behind. Your leadership will help remove barriers to learning while maintaining high expectations and academic rigour.

What You Will Do:

• Drive high standards of attainment, progress, and outcomes for all scholars.
• Deliver differentiated teaching that builds on prior knowledge and individual capabilities.
• Encourage reflective learning and adapt classroom practice to meet emerging needs.
• Lead by example, modelling outstanding teaching and supporting colleagues to improve practice.

What We’re Looking For:

• A highly effective or aspiring middle leader with a proven track record of impact in Maths.
• Someone who shares our values and mission, and thrives in a culture of high expectations.
• A passionate educator who believes every child can succeed, regardless of background or starting point.

What We Offer:

• Extensive support and career development opportunities, including NPQ qualifications.
• A knowledge-rich curriculum built on powerful knowledge and traditional teaching methods.
• Centralised planning and resources, freeing you to focus on impactful teaching.
• A warm/strict behaviour system that ensures disruption-free learning.
• Whole-class feedback policy - no burdensome marking.
• Supportive senior leadership and centralised detentions.
• No formal graded observations - instead, ongoing instructional coaching.
• A clear professional progression model with unrivalled opportunities for advancement.

Why Join Astrea Academy Woodfields?

We are committed to providing an inclusive, aspirational, and academic education for all students. Our scholarly culture is warm, disciplined, and joyful, built on impeccable behaviour and a belief in the power of knowledge. Teachers teach, and pupils learn - it’s that simple.

Interested in Applying?

If you're passionate about education and ready to make a real difference, we’d love to hear from you. Please review the job description and candidate pack to learn more about the role and how to apply.

We warmly welcome visits to the academy. To arrange a visit or find out more, please contact kathryn.haughian@astreawoodfields.org.

Commitment to Safeguarding and EDI:

Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. 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. As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to promoting a culture that ensures there are no barriers to the recruitment, development, and progression of disabled staff across the trust. We provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate their abilities.

Flexible Interview Dates:

Please note that interview dates are flexible, and the academy reserves the right to interview shortlisted candidates during the application window.

Ready to Make a Difference?

If you're ready to take the next step in your career and contribute to our dynamic and forward-thinking team, apply today and be a part of our mission to create a positive impact!

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

We all have a statutory duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Astrea Academy Woodfields

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 714 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Astrea Academy Woodfields website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/astrea-academy-woodfields

Our vision for education is simple and one that allows teachers to teach. We believe in a curriculum that is knowledge-rich, ‘the best that is thought and said’, that is supported by a traditional approach to teaching, behaviour and culture. 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.

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