Senior Leader – Teaching & Learning (Coaching and Professional Practice)
Belfairs Academy, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, SS9 3TG18 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2026
Closing date
2 May 2026 at 12:59am
Date listed
14 April 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- Leadership Scale (commensurate with experience)
Additional allowances
Leadership Scale (commensurate with experience)
Senior Leader – Teaching & Learning (Coaching and Professional Practice) job summary
Senior Leader - Teaching & Learning (Coaching and Professional Practice)
Location: Belfairs Academy - Secondary (11-18)
Contract: 12‑month fixed‑term (with potential for permanency)
Salary: Leadership Scale (commensurate with experience)
Start Date: September 2026 (or sooner by agreement)
Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and proven experience in leading and/or coaching are essential.
Role Purpose
The Senior Leader for Teaching and Learning will play a central role in strengthening the Quality of Education at Belfairs Academy. This is a practice‑focused senior leadership role, designed to improve classroom practice through coaching, professional learning and evidence‑informed pedagogy. The role sits on the Senior Leadership Team but is not an operational post.
Key Responsibilities
Provide strategic leadership for teaching and learning across the school.
Develop the consistently strong classroom practice aligned to curriculum intent and implementation.
Act as the school’s lead instructional coach, supporting teachers and middle leaders.
Design, implement and evaluate a coaching‑led CPD programme.
Use evaluation activities (lesson visits, work scrutiny, outcomes analysis) to inform professional learning.
Support consistent approaches to assessment, feedback and adaptive teaching.
Model excellent professional practice and maintain a credible classroom presence where appropriate.
Contribute to whole‑school strategic planning as a member of the Senior Leadership Team.
Support preparation for inspection and external review relating to Quality of Education.
The role will include a small teaching commitment.
About the Trust
Legra Academy Trust provides high quality, high impact early years, primary and secondary education in Essex. Working together, we make a huge impact on the lives and education of both our young people and staff. We are committed to providing professional development for both our staff and governors, in order to achieve sustainable improvement.
Safeguarding
Legra Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Following safer recruitment procedures, this appointment will be subject to an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure Barring Service, Social Media checks and satisfactory references. Belfairs Academy is an equal opportunities employer and we are committed to positive employment policies to promote equal opportunity in employment.
Further information about the job
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 will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Belfairs Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1606 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Belfairs Academy website
School location
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