Lead Practitioner of Maths

Northallerton School & Sixth Form College, Northallerton, DL6 1ED

12 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  September 2025 or earlier by agreement

• Closing date

  22 April 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  27 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other leadership roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Competitive salary (Leadership scale, based on qualifications and experience)

Lead Practitioner of Maths job summary

The Maths Lead Practitioner is responsible for providing outstanding teaching and learning experiences for our students, accounting for students performance in line with procedures and ensuring that subject knowledge and behaviour of staff in the department is exemplary.

The principal responsibilities of this role will be to:

To collaborate as a member of the Lead Practitioner Team in order to build and realise the shared vision of excellence and high standards for all students.

To provide the School Committee with relevant and accurate information relating to the Faculty’s performance and development.

To support and participate in the work of the Northallerton School and Sixth Form, including strand or subject groups as appropriate.

To contribute actively towards the formulation of all policies and procedures, ensuring their consistent implementation.

To ensure high quality teaching and learning in the Faculty or across the school.

To participate in duties at lunch, break, before, during and after school.

Promote a school community focused on learning, attendance and high standards of behaviour.

Begin your journey with a team dedicated to empowering every student to achieve their full potential. If you share our values and have the vision and ambition to drive excellence, we want to hear from you.

Job Details

Hours of Work: Full Time

Position Type: Permanent

Line Manager: Deputy Headteacher

Travel Required: Some

About the Trust

Areté Learning Trust currently has 11 schools and educates over 7,000 young people in and around North Yorkshire from ages 2-18. Our learners are at the heart of everything we do.

At Areté Learning Trust we work together and collaborate to ensure that all of our learners and our staff team have the chance to reach their potential.

Our Trust is committed to promoting:

Health, happiness and wellbeing

A safe, disciplined and supportive environment

A love of learning through a passionate and committed approach

High standards and expectations

Integrity, kindness and good manners

Respect for individuality and difference

Collaborative working to secure excellence

To realise our aspiration for every child to be the best they can be, we need to ensure that as a Trust we are ‘Striving for Excellence’.

Why work for us?

We want everyone who works within ALT to feel valued and see how their work fits into the bigger picture.

We seek employees who are prepared to take personal responsibility and constantly challenge the norm to improve performance.

In return, we are committed to providing an empowering and supportive learning environment for all staff.

Areté Learning Trust is committed to being the ‘Employer of Choice’.

Essentially this means that we want our schools and our central team to be great places to work. We want our staff development opportunities to be first class and we want to enable staff who are ambitious to grow their careers with us. To give our learners the best education and opportunities we are committed to recruiting and retaining the very best people in all areas of our o rganisation.

Regardless of role, we seek staff who:

Have high expectations of themselves and the people they work with.

Are committed to our Trust values.

Show initiative and are responsive to change.

Have strong interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire and motivate others.

Are creative in their approach to problem solving.

Are able to influence effectively, whatever their role.

Are team players.

We welcome applications from all backgrounds; for more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy statement (https://www.arete.uk/careers). If you would like an informal conversation about the role or to visit the school, please contact Greg Ient, Acting Head of School, by email at gient@northallerton-alt.uk or by phone 01609 773340. If you are ready for the next step in your career and you feel that your skill set makes you a good fit for this very exciting opportunity, then we look forward to receiving your application.

Application Process

Please complete the online application form to apply for this role. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application. You should use the information supplied within the Job Description & Person Specification to make the best of your application by identifying some specific pieces of work you may have undertaken in any of these areas. Your application may be viewed in regard to some or all of the skill specific areas over the course of the selection process. Applications via agencies will not be considered.

Interviews will take place as soon as possible after the closing date

The Areté Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process which includes enhanced criminal records and barring checks, scrutiny of employment history, robust referencing and other vetting checks. Online searches may be done as part of due diligence checks.

Our safeguarding system is underpinned by a range of policies and procedures which encourage and promote safe working practice across the Trust. On joining you will be required to undergo continuous professional development to maintain safe working practice and to safeguard our children and young people.

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.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About Northallerton School & Sixth Form College

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1079 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Northallerton School & Sixth Form College website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/northallerton-school-sixth-form-college

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