Lead Practitioner: Science

Lode Heath School, Solihull, West Midlands, B91 2HW

Deadline is tomorrow

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  4 April 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  19 March 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Subject: Science
• Working pattern: Part time, full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £38,034.00 Annually (FTE) Salary Grade: MPS/UPS TLR negotiable

Lead Practitioner: Science job summary

As an established, successful and experienced teacher, we understand you want to help every student, irrespective of their background or abilities, to succeed. In short, you want to make a positive difference to your students’ lives. At Lode Heath School, we also want you to support other members of our team to achieve this.

We are particularly keen to develop creative approaches to teaching and learning and to extend the variety of activities and tasks our students experience to further enhance their love of learning. So, if you are driven by fresh-thinking and new ideas, this is the role for you. You will work alongside our science leaders to develop our curriculum and further support our team in science and beyond.

We also understand that to achieve your aims, you need outstanding support and development that’s shaped to meet your needs and aspirations so you can, in turn, do the same for others. We offer first-rate induction and CPD programmes that include links with our Trust schools, plus the chance to work directly with other Lead Practitioners and Senior leaders as we work together to achieve the best for all in our school, its students, and staff.

As for the culture here at Lode Heath, it’s all about working collaboratively and supporting each other to deliver exceptional teaching and learning for all of our students. That’s at the centre of everything we do.

Lode Heath School is a member of the Arden Multi-Academy Trust where we are committed in working together to help and enrich the experiences of all within the AMAT family; we have a clear vision to generate self-belief, self-worth, esteem and confidence in our young people who can then display the ambition and aspiration in achieving high educational outcomes.

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.

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About Lode Heath School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 16
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1164 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 16
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Lode Heath School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/lode-heath-school

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