Lead Practitioner for Teaching & Learning: Science - The Lowry Academy

Post Title: Lead Practitioner for Teaching & Learning: Science

Hours of Work: Full Time, Permanent

Salary Grade: Lead Practitioner Range 6 – 10 (£46,685 - £51,564)

(United Learning Teacher’s Pay Structure)

Responsible to: Head of Science & Vice Principal for Teaching & Learning

Conditions of Service: United Learning Contract

The role

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, outstanding Lead Practitioner for Science with the energy, commitment, and subject knowledge to both expertly teach Science to our students, and to develop our teachers, both within the Science department and across the academy to become highly effective practitioners.

We are looking for a passionate and talented leader, who has the knowledge of what excellent Science teaching looks like, and the ability to motivate and develop others. You will be working closely with the Head of Department to lead the Science team to achieve positive student progress and outcomes.

The appointed candidate will join a supportive team and a hard- working, motivated academy. Staff maintain a constant focus on improvement and professional growth, reflecting on practice regularly through our teaching and learning newsletter, through weekly CPD, regular coaching and personalised CPD opportunities.

What can we offer?

• The opportunity to play a key role in part of our transformational journey to ensure all

learners receive an excellent education.

• The benefits of working in a successfully multi-academy trust and full access to ongoing CPD,

including enrolment on the Early Career Teacher programme for recently qualified colleagues.

• Access to our full programme of teacher development CPD and coaching as appropriate.

• Enhanced remuneration equivalent to the main teacher pay scale.

Why Us?

The Lowry Academy is a caring yet ambitious academy at the heart of our local community. We provide all our students with opportunities to strive toward academic excellence and develop interpersonal skills in order to make a positive contribution to society. We have a calm and supportive environment characterised by respectful relationships between staff and students. Through our clear focus on delivering excellent academic standards for all students, we put high-quality teaching and learning at the core of our approach.  

In joining The Lowry Academy, you will also be joining United Learning, a successful Multi Academy Trust. United Learning schools work as a team and achieve more thorough 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’s 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.  

Please contact HumanResources@lowryacademy.org.uk for a recruitment pack.  We reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.