Lead Practitioner - Maths

We are looking for a Lead Practitioner - Maths for April 2025 (or earlier) and warmly welcome applications from experienced teachers who are passionate about Maths and are dedicated to enabling students to make excellent progress.  Our successful candidate will need to be dynamic, creative and forward-thinking.

As the Lead Practitioner for maths, you will work in a large team with a wide range of experience. The department continues to successfully train and develop ECTs as a means of investing in the future of the department. As the Lead Practitioner, you will lead the development of ECTs and the educational implementation (teaching and learning) standards across the department. With senior leaders also in the department, you will be able to rely on the expertise of established practitioners who will play a part in working with you to drive standards higher. This is a fantastic role where you will have a direct impact in developing the maths department to make it even better and grow our talented maths team to secure the very best outcomes for students at our academy. 

A successful candidate will be joining a highly successful team, with recent positive outcomes through OFSTED ‘deep-dives’ and internal subject reviews. As the Lead Practitioner, you will support the Director of Learning to raise standards throughout the department in all areas to outstanding and help inspire excellence as part of a collaborative and dedicated team. 

The department is well funded and supported with resources, with a successful candidate leading the homework strategy (Sparx Maths). In addition to the GCSE at KS4, the department teaches the IB's Middle Years Programme (MYP) at KS3 as well as IB Mathematics (Standard and Higher Level) and GCSE Further Maths. This allows for opportunities to work with a range of levels and abilities to improve the quality of education and outcomes in maths.

This is a full-time, permanent position offering Leadership scale, commensurate with experience + London Fringe Allowance.#

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Being part of Leigh Academies Trust: As of 1st September 2024, our Trust comprises 33 geographically organised academies (17 secondaries, 14 primaries and 2 special) educating more than 24,000 students and employing 4,000 talented staff. Currently, 16 of our academies are considered to be “Outstanding” which is 53% of those which have been inspected whilst part of the Trust. The Trust is establishing three ‘clusters’ of academies: LAT Central; LAT West; LAT North. In addition, the Trust is responsible for one of the region’s biggest initial teaching training organisations, a large teaching school hub and is an accredited apprenticeship provider. Our future plans are found in our Vision 2030 document available on our website.

As part of Leigh Academies Trust, you will have ample opportunity to collaborate with your peers both within the academy and across the whole Trust. This is an important part of our vision as we know through experience that we perform better when we work together. You are supported to undertake regular self-development to continue your professional development and hopefully progress further within the organisation.

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Our commitment to safeguarding: Leigh Academies Trust and all of our academies are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair, robust and consistent recruitment process across all academies and business units which is in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates - you can read more about this in our Recruitment Guidance. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

Our commitment to equality and diversity: As a Trust, we are passionate about diversity and recognise that as individuals, we all bring something unique to the role regardless of any protected characteristics which are why we treat all of our people equally, without compromise. We are committed to providing equality and fairness throughout our recruitment and employment practices and not discriminating on any grounds.

Based on the quality and quantity of applications received, Leigh Academies Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy sooner than the specified closing date. Applicants will be notified of this where possible. Therefore, early applications are encouraged.