Lead Practitioner - Maths
Co-op Academy Stoke-On-Trent, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST6 4LD7 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
2 May 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
23 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- LP6 £54, 651 - LP12 £60, 648
Lead Practitioner - Maths job summary
Do you have a vision for educational excellence? At Co-op Academy Stoke-on-Trent, we invite you to apply for the position of Lead Practitioner of Maths and contribute to our mission to drive innovation and improve student achievement.
To support the continuous improvement of our Maths department, an exciting opportunity has arisen for an outstanding practitioner to join us. We would be excited to hear from you if:
- you are an experienced middle leader with a proven track record of excellence in your maths specialism seeking a new challenge, e.g. to just focus on curriculum development and developing teaching, OR,
- if you have experience leading a Key Stage within Three and Four and are looking for a promotional opportunity that offers new challenges, greater responsibility, and the opportunity to have a wider impact on developing others teaching
- you are an exceptional practitioner with a proven track record and are seeking to have a wider influence on other teachers practice.
Potential candidates will:
- have a demonstrable passion for the subject, with the ability to help children successfully master an ambitious Maths curriculum;
- possess the qualities to grow into a highly effective leader, such as the ability to influence others, be highly reflective, possess an unwavering work ethic, have high levels of emotional intelligence and professional integrity;
- be lifelong learner, always striving to be a better teacher, who is personally ambitious and able to pick things up quickly;
- want to work in a fully inclusive, diverse and ambitious school, providing a first-class education to our children, where you can really make a difference to young people.
Why us?
At Co-op Academy Stoke-on-Trent, we are a thriving and expanding community that's committed to delivering outstanding education. As the highest-performing non-selective school in the city in 2022, we're proud to support and inspire our fantastic young people. Now, we're looking for passionate and dedicated individuals to help us build on this success and become part of our growing team.
All our values are based upon the values of the Co-op Group, which will inform our behaviours.
Self-help: We do not expect to be spoon fed – we will try to do things for ourselves in the right way and at the right time.
Self-responsibility: Everyone should act in a responsible way around the academy site and in the local community. We take responsibility for our own learning; we want to become independent learners.
Equality: We are proud to be part of a very multicultural academy, with students from all over the world; it is important that we treat each other with respect and accept that others may be different from ourselves. We should all of us have equal chances to succeed.
Equity: We want to look for the best in each other. Rewarding others fairly to encourage all types of achievement.
Democracy: We will contribute our ideas to make the academy a success.
Solidarity: We can achieve more by working together, rather than as individuals.
Our Values
Being part of the Co-operative Group, we are both guided and driven by the Co-op values which are embedded in everything that we do within our Academy - We strive to demonstrate the following ethical values in everything we do - they are our ‘Ways of Being’:
Succeed together
Do what matters most
Be yourself, always
Show you care
So, if you believe in our values, we would love to hear from you!
We offer a wide range of benefits and rewards to recognise the part you play in our success:
Benefits include:
Our employee benefits package includes:
- As a developing or experienced leader you will have access to excellent leadership opportunities and support within the Trust.
- You’ll get being a Co-op member, you’ll get a Co-op colleague discount card. This gives you a 10% discount in our Co-op Food stores.
- Co-operative flexible benefits (discounted line rental and broadband package, family care advice and cycle to work scheme)
- Discounted gym membership and leisure activities which includes discounts on Merlin Entertainments (Sea Life, Legoland etc), Virgin Experience Days, SuperBreak and many more!
- Co-operative Credit Union: save directly from your salary and receive a competitive dividend. Borrowers can benefit from very competitive interest rates & terms (in comparison with other high street lenders)
- Co-op Funeralcare benefit
- Season ticket and rental deposit loans
And More!
For more information about the Co-op Academies Trust, please visit: www.coopacademies.co.uk
The Trust is also committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnerships.
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.
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 Co-op Academy Stoke-On-Trent
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1181 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Co-op Academy Stoke-On-Trent website
School location
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