Lead Practitioner - Maths

Based at Orion Eden Park

Orion Education is a values-led organisation, driven by a determination to create welcoming and open schools for the local community, where every person thrives, makes excellent progress, and succeeds. We are committed to improving outcomes and transforming lives, realising social mobility, and the transformative power of education. We value the difference in all of our schools while seeking to bring them together around a framework that delivers an enriching experience and a great education for the young people within our care.  

We want the very best for all of our young people. Our plan to ensure that we deliver great schools is underpinned by our shared values of trust, kindness, and endeavour. Our schools and our staff are collaborative and we seek to create consistency and quality throughout.   

Our leaders create improvement in schools that is robust and sustainable. We are as enthusiastic about developing and nurturing our staff, as we are about developing our young people. Our professional development programs and our approach to school improvement provide quality and rigor while creating a depth of experience and learning for our staff.  

To improve outcomes, transform lives and enable social mobility. 

• To be an expert in the subject area, developing pedagogy and supporting outcomes in excess of national average across all age groups 
• To be an expert teacher, supporting whole school pedagogy in line with the school CPD planning and teaching and learning policy 
• To support the teaching and learning team in designing, implementing and reviewing the efficacy of a range of teaching methodologies and practices 
• To live the vison and values 
• To ensure high standards of teaching and learning across the faculty area, through continuously developing and enhancing the quality of teaching and learning 
• To ensure that all School policies and procedures are implemented and applied consistently by all staff in the faculty area 
• To support the development for literacy, within subject areas, to raise standards of literacy across the School 
• To ensure that every child has the opportunity to experience a range of experiences within the subject area 
• To ensure that the profile of the subject area is further developed 
• To ensure that the subject area leads on high quality displays and exhibitions through the School environment 
• To share and support the school’s responsibility to provide and monitor opportunities for personal and academic growth. 
• To be responsible for supporting the implementation of the school ITT and ECF systems, ensuring all staff develop in their training and first years of teaching. 

Improving quality of teaching and learning 

• Model consistently high-quality teaching and be able to demonstrate excellent practice to others 
• Produce high-quality teaching materials that support excellent practice 
• Prepare and deliver subject based training courses across the school and Trust to improve teachers’ practice 
• Carry out lesson observations, providing feedback and implementing strategies to improve practice 
• Provide instructional coaching to individual teachers in need of 1-2-1 support to improve their practice 
• Promote strategies which support differentiation, inclusion and positive behaviour 
• Provide school support in subject area across the Trust when required 
• Provide support as directed to support the teaching and learning of the school 
• To keep up to date with the latest research on teaching and learning, ensuring that effective practice makes its way to the classroom and policy design where appropriate. 

Monitoring and evaluation 

• Co-ordinate and carry out monitoring and evaluation activities to improve teaching and learning, including work scrutinise, lesson observations, learning walks etc. 
• Use systems to analyse data from monitoring and evaluation, and use insights to inform strategies and plans for teacher development 
• Support with self-evaluation and school improvement planning across the school 

*We reserve the right to this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application. 

We look forward to hearing from you.   

Orion Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check will be completed for all applicants. Orion Education is fully committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education.