Lead Practitioner in Humanities

Are you ready to inspire our pupils to achieve the best that they can? Join our committed team at Weavers Academy

If you are ready to take the next step in your career to work alongside the Quality of Teaching Senior Leadership Team to improve teaching and learning to drive up outcomes for our students, we want to hear from you.

Job Title: Lead Practitioner in Humanities (Geography specialism)

Location: Wellingborough

Salary: £30,000 - 46,525 FTE plus TLR2c

Start Date: ASAP 

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Pattern: Full-time, 52 weeks a year

About Our School:

Weavers Academy is large enough to offer a diverse and innovative curriculum, yet small enough to ensure every student feels safe, valued, and happy. We prioritise high-quality teaching and learning, dedicating significant time to each student’s success. Our students exhibit good behaviour and caring attitudes, fostering an environment where learning thrives. At Weavers, it’s ‘cool’ to learn, and we value feedback from families and students to continually enhance our supportive community. We are very proud to have achieved a 2022 Ofsted grading of ‘good’ in all areas!

The role:

We are looking for an inspiring and driven leader who can improve the standards of teaching across the faculty by focussing on subject pedagogy, quality first teaching strategies and student experience.

 About Creative Education Trust:

Creative Education Trust was established in 2010 to work in England’s post-industrial and coastal towns and cities. We are now a network of 17 schools educating 13,500 children and young people.

We have chosen to work with schools in challenging circumstances. We have successfully transformed schools previously deemed to be inadequate into good ones in order that all our students can have the best start in life. We are committed to providing educational opportunity for children of all abilities and to building cultural capital through a wide range of co-curricular activities. Curricular innovation through our Knowledge Connected programmes promotes creative, integrated and pro-active thinking so that our students are equipped for the challenges of the 21st century.

CET Benefits & Continual Professional Development:

CET are committed to your learning and development, which is a continuous process that starts with your induction. The opportunities include a wide range of subjects from middle leadership and DSL training to autism awareness. We run annual conferences including Safeguarding and Learning and Teaching and have regular network meetings across the Trust.

We have a wide range of benefits that you are more than welcome to explore further in our Staff Benefits brochure attached.

Next Steps:

Application Closing Date: 13th December 2024

Interview Date: ASAP

Please submit your application through our website using the direct online application method.

Essential Information:

Creative Education Trust (CET) is committed to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people by keeping them safe, we expect all our colleagues to share in this responsibility.

All shortlisted candidates are subject to online checks prior to interview.

The CET Recruitment Policy follows the guidance set out by Keeping Children Safe in Education, where all offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS Check, References and where appropriate a Prohibition from teaching search.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974.

CET is committed to developing, maintaining, and supporting an inclusive culture and environment for the benefit of its employees and the communities it serves.