Lead Practitioner
Ranikhet Academy, Reading, Berkshire, RG30 4ED11 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible/Flexible
Closing date
6 December 2024 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
15 November 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 1, Key stage 2
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £50,025.00 - £76,050.00 Annually (FTE) Lead Practitioners Pay Scale
Lead Practitioner job summary
Are you ready to lead and inspire? Join Ranikhet Academy as a Lead Practitioner, part of our senior leadership team, and play a vital role in shaping exceptional teaching and learning.
We want someone who:
🌟 Is an outstanding classroom practitioner and role model.
💡 Has leadership experience (or is ready to step up!).
🤝 Thrives on collaboration and wants to shape teaching excellence at scale.
🔥 Brings energy, creativity, and a relentless drive to improve outcomes.
What’s in it for you?
🎯 Impactful leadership: Oversight of teaching strategies that deliver real results for pupils.
🌱 Support to grow: Bespoke mentoring, access to Trust-wide CPD, and limitless career opportunities in the largest primary-only Trust in the UK.
🤝 Exciting collaboration: Work across REAch2 academies in Reading—Civitas, Green Park Village, and The Palmer—leading innovative initiatives.
🏫 Be part of something big: Ranikhet is nearing the end of a major refurbishment, with a focus on building a brilliant, ambitious team.
Why REAch2? 🌟
Join a Trust of over 60+ schools and enjoy:
🤝 Nationwide collaboration with passionate colleagues.
📚 Specialist training and curriculum expertise to enhance your skills.
💆♀️ A strong focus on staff wellbeing because you matter too.
📄 Check out our ‘Application Essentials’ pack to learn more!
You’ll need:
📚 Proven expertise in teaching and leading across the curriculum.
🔬 A thirst for research and innovation.
🎭 Strong interpersonal and organizational skills (and a sense of humor never hurts!).
What you’ll do:
📈 Lead on the continual improvement of the teaching and learning skill of all teaching staff, particularly through observation, review, mentoring, coaching, and modeling.
🎨 Drive progress through creative strategies and fearless ambition.
Next Steps:
If you’re ready to make a difference, let’s talk! Contact Tom Twort, Deputy Director of Education, on 07464 717912 or via tom.twort@reach2.org for a chat or to arrange a visit.
Safeguarding and Recruitment
At REAch2 we recognise that those who work in an academy are in a unique position in their care of children. The responsibility for all staff to safeguard pupils and promote their welfare, as stated in Section 175 of the Education Act (2002) is one that is central to our ethos, our policies and our actions. All children are deserving of the highest levels of care and safeguarding, regardless of their individual characteristics or circumstances, and we are committed to applying our policies to ensure effective levels of safeguarding and care are afforded to all our pupils.
We will seek to recruit the best applicant for the job based on the abilities, qualifications, experience as measured against the job description and person specification. The recruitment and selection of staff will be conducted in a professional, timely and responsive manner and in compliance with current employment legislation, and relevant safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance. An enhanced DBS disclosure will be requested for all successful candidates, including a Children's Barred List check if the role meets the criteria for regulated activity.
For more information about our safer recruitment processes, please click here for our Safer Recruitment Policy.
All information is stored securely, and any information supplied by unsuccessful candidates will be destroyed through a confidential waste system six months after the decision has been communicated, in accordance with our information and records retention policy.
The Trust ensures all applicant data is stored and processed appropriately. For further details on how your information will be managed during the recruitment process please refer to our Privacy Notice for Job Applications.
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 Ranikhet Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 3 to 11
- Education phase
- Primary
- School size
- 247 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 3 to 11
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Ranikhet Academy website (opens in new tab)
Our school belongs to the staff, the children and the community. We have an inclusive culture where we celebrate our diverse community. We have 3 school rules – Be Ready, Be Respectful and Be Safe. All our children, staff and families follow these 3 rules so that we have an inclusive learning environment where we all feel Proud to Belong.
Our school sits in the heart of a community. We warmly welcome visits from members of our local community to build relationships, support local causes and encourage our children to have high aspirations. Parent and pupil voice is incredibly important to us and feedback we get from children, parents and community directly influences our practice.
Our children experience a rich curriculum with excellent teaching and learning. Classrooms are inclusive and we have high expectations of all children. We plan the curriculum that our children need which includes key learning experiences and collaborative projects inside and outside the classroom.
School location
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