Lead Practitioner - English

Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: Lead Practitioner Scale (£53,994-£59,183)

Package: Performance/Loyalty Bonus + Wellbeing Cash Plan + TPS Pension + Exceptional Benefits

Start Date: September 2025 or earlier

Interview Dates: wc 21st April - wc 5th May

MLK Search is supporting this all-through Academy in Erith and is seeking to appoint an experienced, qualified teacher to join as a Lead Practitioner for English to ensure high standards of teaching and learning across the subject.

The Academy combines the traditional values of good manners, strong discipline and smart uniform with the best of modern teaching and technology. As an all-through setting, pupils can benefit from joining in reception and staying on to complete sixth form, ensuring they leave the school as well-educated, well-rounded individuals ready to take on the world.

The vision is clear: nothing is impossible and everything is possible, irrespective of personal characteristics or background. Every problem has a solution. They believe they are more robust, resilient and determined as a team than as a group of individuals. They support, challenge and hold each other to account at all levels within the academy to ensure that students achieve their potential, are motivated, engaged and fully prepared for life beyond the academy.

As one of the Trust's most successful all-through academies, staff at all levels belong to a strong, cohesive team working with an Executive Principal and large SLT. Staff can expect to grow with them as they continue to innovate and evolve as an academy. With ample opportunity to build on CPD, potential is limitless.

You will play a leading and highly visible role in the improvement of teaching and learning of the Faculty and academic success of all students, ensuring the highest standards of teaching, learning and achievement and leading in the monitoring, evaluation and review of standards and provision in the subject area.

Your main areas of responsibility will fall under the areas of:

• To collaborate as a member of the Lead Practitioner Team in order to build and realise the shared vision of excellence and high standards for all students.
• To account for students' performance in line with Academy procedures.
• To provide the Governing Body with relevant and accurate information relating to the Faculty's performance and development.
• To support and participate in the work of the Federation, including strand or subject groups as appropriate.
• To contribute actively towards the formulation of all Academy policies and procedures, ensuring their consistent implementation.
• To ensure high quality teaching and learning in the Faculty or across the Academy.
• To participate in duties at lunch, break, before, during and after school the Academy day.
• To ensure that the subject knowledge of staff in the Faculty is exemplary.
• To ensure that behaviour in the Faculty is exemplary.
• To ensure that Schemes of Learning and Independent Work books are of a high quality.

The successful candidate will:

• Hold QTS (or equivalent) and a relevant undergraduate degree, and, ideally, be able to show evidence of ongoing professional development.
• Demonstrate outstanding teaching practice and excellent behaviour management.
• Have experience of lesson observations and giving robust feedback.
• Have experience of improvement planning and of implementing a range of strategies to raise student achievement, with evidence of success.
• Be able to contribute to improving on the quality of learning and teaching and curriculum.
• Have a proven track record of excellent results at KS3 and 4, and, ideally, experience of teaching to KS5.
• Have experience of high quality pupil tracking and feedback practices.
• Ideally, have experience of working with governors and of working in more than one school.

If this sounds like an exciting opportunity that you would like to pursue, please APPLY NOW!