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Lead Practitioner of English

Leeds City Academy, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS6 2LG

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Job start date
1 September 2023
Closing date
20 April 2023 at 9am
Date listed
22 March 2023

Job details

Job role: Head of year or phase
Head of department or curriculum
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage: Key stage 3, Key stage 4
Subject: View all Englishjobs
Working pattern: View all Full timejobs
Full time
Contract type: Permanent
Pay scale: Leadership Scale L1 - L5 (£44,305 TO £48,895)

What skills and experience we're looking for

Role:

To be a key driver for improving student outcomes through developing an outstanding curriculum and consistently outstanding teaching and learning in English.

To contribute, lead and provide key support to the Director of English in the continued improvements in the quality of teaching, learning and assessment across all English groups.

To contribute, lead and provide key support to the quality of education leaders in securing a high-quality programme of induction, CPD, monitoring and assessment procedures of all teachers across the academy.

Subject Leader support:

To ensure excellent progress is made for different groups of students (e.g. girls/boys, upper/middle/lower, PP/non-PP/GRT/SEND) and to work with other relevant colleagues in the team to ensure that quality first wave teaching is in place to prepare students for examinations.
To ensure, through robust quality assurance and moderation, accurate predictions are being made in relation to student progress.
To develop schemes of work including templates, exemplars, and support materials which can be used across the team.
To coach, mentor and train colleagues in the team.
To be a role model to less experienced colleagues, demonstrating exemplary practice.

What the school offers its staff

This is an extremely exciting time to be joining Leeds City Academy, one of the most rapidly improving schools within the Leeds area and county of West Yorkshire. We are an 11-16 academy and one of four schools within White Rose Academies Trust, a trust recognised nationally for its ground-breaking and transformational impact on the lives of the young people it serves. The academy had a Section 5 Inspection in May 2019 achieving an overall Good judgement with Leadership and Management judged as Outstanding.

Our highly motivated and talented students are at the very centre of everything we do and the shared mission of all our stakeholders is to work ‘In Partnership’ in securing the aspirations and ambitions of every one of our young people. Our  academy is a unique and truly inspirational place to work, enhanced by our wonderful students who come from a diverse range of cultures, heritage and experiences; a significant proportion of students speak English as an additional language.

Our CPD training programme is highly respected by staff at the academy and is further enhanced by the various opportunities for professional development in all sectors.

Please apply if you wish to work for a Multi Academy Trust which values and supports the next move in your career. Come and join us on our journey to becoming World Class.

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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