MAT Lead Practitioner for English

Sidney Stringer Academy, Coventry, West Midlands, CV1 5LY

2 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  11 July 2025 at 11:59am

• Date listed

  4 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Pastoral, health and welfare
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: LP02 -LP07

MAT Lead Practitioner for English job summary

Are you seeking a new opportunity within an ambitious and supportive team, where you can contribute towards an excellent teaching and learning environment?

Job overview

We want to appoint a dynamic, outstanding teacher to become our Lead Practitioner for English across the Trust. To develop a curriculum that enables all students, no matter what phase, key stage or school, to achieve the best possible outcomes in English. To develop a lifelong love of learning reading within our young people and lead, or support, with Literacy activities across the Trust. 

The right candidate will have:

• Qualified Teacher Status or equivalent qualification
• Evidence of successful and varied experience, ideally in secondary schools.
• Recent experience of a leadership responsibility within an English department and ideally experience of whole school leadership
• Proven track record of raising educational standards and improving teaching at a departmental level.
• Evidence of involvement in the development of the English curriculum

Why choose us?

At Sidney Stringer Academy, you’ll be working within a welcoming and supportive team, with the ability to make a real difference. You will have the opportunity to work alongside committed teachers, to observe and share practice on a regular basis, developing pedagogy through reflection. We also offer access to opportunities for professional development.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to undertake an enhanced criminal record check via the DBS.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Sidney Stringer Academy

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1478 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Sidney Stringer Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/sidney-stringer-academy

Our Trust consists of five schools led by Sidney Stringer Academy. The schools are Radford Primary Academy, Ernesford Grange Community Academy, Riverbank Academy (Special School), Sidney Stringer Academy and Sidney Stringer Primary Free School.

All of the schools in the trust are working together with the ambition of becoming outstanding. As the Trust develops we are exploring the opportunities of creating shared posts and services across the schools so that we can benefit from economies of scale.

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