Lead Practitioner for Science

 Lead Practitioner of Science

Start date: As soon as possible

Hours: 37.5 per week

Salary: £47,707.00 - £54,909.00

Contract: Full-time, permanent. 

Conditions: United Learning Trust Contract

Why join our Academy:

The Albion Academy is one of the most rapidly improving schools in Salford with a supportive and communal staff. Rated as good in all areas by OFSTED (July 2023). It is part of a cluster of four United Learning schools in Salford.

Students here work hard and are pushed to exceed their own expectations of themselves, and our staff are dedicated to making sure every young person in our Academy has every opportunity we can give them.

All our staff have access to United Learning’s comprehensive programme of Continuous Professional Development and there are many opportunities for career progression. As part of a cluster of United Learning schools in Salford, you will also benefit from working closely with colleagues at other schools in order share best practice and collaborate on joint projects.

About the role

We are looking for an outstanding Lead Practitioner of Science with a proven track record of success and raising student outcomes. This role will drive whole school initiatives, linked to Teaching and Learning, Pedagogy and assessment. You will have the ability to deliver quality teaching that drives achievement and inspires a love of learning.  

 The successful candidate will be: 

• highly motivated and enthusiastic
• Passionate about learning and has a strong subject knowledge.
• dedicated to setting high standards and expectations in student outcomes, behaviour, attendance and appearance, and to celebrate success and achievements
• A committed team player, you will have excellent organisational skills.
• The ability to motivate both students and peers.
• act as a role model to students so professionalism and confidentiality will be your key attributes.

We can offer you: 

• access to an Employee Assistance Programme. 
• over 250 employee exclusive benefits through our partners, Perkbox, including access to discounted cinema tickets, holidays and gym memberships, car leasing and Cycle2work schemes 
• access to the Local Government Pension Scheme. 
• occupational sick pay, protecting you and your family 
• continuous Professional Development options, that will be tailored to your needs 
• competitive maternity, paternity and adoption benefits 

United Learning

We are part of United Learning, a large, and growing, group of schools aiming to offer a life changing education to children and young people across England.

Our schools work as a team and achieve more by sharing than any single school could. Our subject specialists, our Group-wide intranet, our own curriculum and our online learning portal all help us share knowledge and resource, helping to simplify work processes and manage workloads for an improved work-life balance.

As a Group, we can reward our staff better: with good career opportunities, better pay, benefits, and ultimately, the satisfaction of helping children to succeed. We invest in our staff wellbeing. Our academies each have at least eight INSET days per year (with three of those solely dedicated to planning), and an ongoing group-wide wellbeing programme. It's an ethos we call ‘the best in everyone’.

We are working hard to become a more diverse organisation – which is key to our commitment to bringing out the best in everyone. We welcome applications from everyone committed to this ethos and would particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates, who are currently under-represented in the Group as a whole. We always appoint on merit. We are open to discussing flexible working options.

The Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful applicant will, in accordance with statutory guidance, be subject to a comprehensive pre-employment checking process including references from current and previous employers, health, right to work in the UK, an enhanced DBS check and a further check against the appropriate barred list.

If you want to find out more, please visit our website: www.albionacademy.org

Please note we cannot except CV’s.

Closing date: Monday 16th October at 12 noon.