Lead Practitioner of English
Harper Green School
Bolton
- £50,024 - £52,556 per year
- New
- Expiring soon
- Salary:
- Lead Practitioner Pay Range P1 to P3
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2025
- Apply by:
- 18 October 2024
Job overview
Lead Practitioner of English
Salary: Lead Practitioner Pay Range P1 to P3
£50,024 to £52,556 per annum
Permanent
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Lead Practitioner of English within a large, supportive and values based school, working alongside and learning from experienced practitioners. We are looking for a creative, inspirational and committed practitioner to support the development of pedagogy and practice within the English team. You will be working with the Head of Department, to further develop our strong pedagogy and successful approach to existing positive outcomes for our young people.
This is an exciting time to join our school following our recent ‘Good’ Ofsted grading.
Harper Green is looking for a lead practitioner who;
· has a passion for their subject, and can instil this in our young people
· has excellent English pedagogy
· has an openness to continuous professional development
· has high expectations of standards and achievement
· is flexible, collaborative & resilient
· can contribute to the wider curriculum and cultural capital of our students
· has the highest ambitions for our students, the school & yourself
In return we will offer you;
· an aspirational supportive Leadership Team and Governing Body.
· ambitious, motivated students.
· continuous professional development
· enthusiastic, willing and professional staff.
· a network of outstanding practitioners to collaborate with & learn from.
· a happy, supportive working environment with high expectations and standards.
A full information pack which includes the job description and person specification is on the Trust website.
If you would like to discuss this vacancy further, please contact the HR Team at vacancies@harpergreen.net
To apply, please click on the link, and register for an account to complete our online application form: www.leverhulmeacademytrust.org/Vacancies/
Required for January 2025
Closing date: 9am on Friday 18th October 2024
Interviews will be held on Tuesday 22nd October 2024
The trust is committed to safer recruitment and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. The post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Barring Service clearance. The 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 Trust is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from as diverse a group as possible.
Harper Green School is part of Leverhulme Academy Trust, we believe that nurturing and supporting staff in team work and collaboration is essential if we are to provide the highest standard of education for all students within the Trust.
Discovering dreams, achieving ambitions and transforming lives.
Attached documents
About Harper Green School
- Harper Green School
- Harper Green Road, Farnworth, Bolton
- Lancashire
- BL4 0DH
- United Kingdom
About Harper Green School
Harper Green School is a co-educational comprehensive located in Bolton. It was first established in 1927, and we are looking forward to the upcoming centennial celebrations. Our school has approximately 1250 students aged 11-16, making it noticeably larger than the average secondary school. The school site has seen extensive redevelopment and modernisation since its founding, and boasts a range of modern teaching facilities. The most recent of these being our B block – which houses a state of the art Dance studio, Drama studio, 3 modern classrooms and Humanities and Learning Hub department areas.
I am proud to be Headteacher of a school which truly serves its local community. We are a values driven school and there is a moral purpose to working at Harper Green, where we strive to transform the lives of our young people.
If this sounds like the type of school you could contribute to, then I would love to receive an application from you.
Headteacher
Ms S Heppenstall
Values and ethos
Our core values are:
· putting students first
· having high expectation
· acting with integrity
Harper Green School is committed to providing educational and cultural capital opportunity for all students, regardless of background or academic ability. We achieve through our ambitious, well sequenced curriculums (including PSHRE), a plethora of enrichment opportunities and appropriate careers support across all year groups. The school has high expectations for behaviour and attitudes, develops young people who have pride in themselves and their school and encourages its students to carry that with them when they leave school.
WE ARE HARPER
“Discovering dreams, achieving aspirations, transforming lives”
For students, our values are to:
· work hard
· take part
· do the right thing
We are HARPER and this is how we do it here is central to our third value of do the right thing. Our HARPER attributes are to be: Honest, Accepting, Respectful, Proud, Engaged and Resilient.
As a school there are four main areas that want all our students to take responsibility for. Our aim is to make each individual central to their own education and support them in making positive choices and through doing so our students will become more committed, independent and resilient.
Learning – We are inspired to achieve through engaging and challenging lessons within a broad and balanced curriculum.
Personal Development – We believe that it is our responsibility to discover and nurture our unique talents through the “We are HARPER” attributes.
Experience – We endeavour to be confident and resilient and believe we can achieve this by challenging ourselves daily through new experiences.
Community – We recognise the positive differences we can make in society and how this can only be achieved through working together.
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