Lead Practitioner Geography
Ernulf Academy
Cambridgeshire
- £52,301 - £57,720 per year
- Quick apply
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2025
- Apply by:
- 27 April 2025
Job overview
Lead Practitioner - Geography
Location: Ernulf Academy
Salary: Lead Practitioner 2 – 6 (£52,301 - £57,720)
Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time (32.5 hours per week, 52 weeks per year) - Would consider Part Time hours as well
About the Role:
Ernulf Academy is seeking a dedicated and dynamic Lead Practitioner in Geography to join our team. The successful candidate will support the Head of Humanities in leading and managing the Geography department, working strategically to develop a well-sequenced curriculum and consistent teaching pedagogy. This role is pivotal in ensuring all students make expected progress across Key Stages 3 and 4.
Key Responsibilities:
- Implement and deliver a broad, balanced, relevant, and differentiated curriculum for students.
- Lead on specific responsibilities within the department and drive high-quality teaching and learning strategies.
- Use coaching and feedback to develop teaching and learning strategies to improve whole school provision and student outcomes.
- Plan and deliver engaging, differentiated lessons that meet the needs of all learners.
- Monitor and assess pupil progress, providing high-quality feedback and interventions.
- Maintain productive communication with parents regarding pupil progress and development.
- Lead and manage quality assurance processes within the Geography department.
- Contribute to the overall leadership of the academy through specific duties as directed by the Principal.
Person Specification:
- Education and Training: Qualified Teacher Status, Good Honours Degree, evidence of outstanding teaching.
- Experience: Proven track record of positive pupil outcomes, experience in leading others, and a commitment to self-improvement as a professional.
- Skills: Excellent communication, organisational, and IT skills, ability to manage change effectively, and inspire trust and respect.
Why Join Us?
At Ernulf Academy, we foster a safe and supportive environment with high expectations, mutual respect, and a love for learning. If you align with our values and mission, you will thrive in our community.
Our Vision: We are values-driven and our vision is to provide an inclusive, aspirational, and academic education for all our students, so that all of them will learn, thrive, and lead successful lives. We are unapologetically ambitious for every child, no matter what their background, prior attainment, or needs. We want to ensure that all our students have the option to go to university or pursue an aspirational alternative.
What We Are Looking For:
- Experience working with young people aged 11-16.
- Experience of working in a classroom/unit setting.
- Appropriate IT skills to support learning.
- Good understanding of child development and the learning process.
What We Offer:
- Generous annual leave entitlement.
- Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme and Employee Assistance Programme.
- Continued professional development and training opportunities.
- Free on-site parking.
Interested in Applying? If you are interested in this role, looking for a new challenge, have a passion for education, or maybe all of the above, take a look at the Applicant Brief to find out more about the role and how to apply.
We actively welcome visits and would be delighted to show you around our academy to fully appreciate our excellent learning environment. If you would like to visit or have any questions about the role, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
Safeguarding and Diversity: Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks including references and enhanced DBS checks. We value diversity and encourage applications from candidates who are underrepresented in our workforce, including people from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, and LGBTQI+ communities.
The Astrea Resourcing Team supports this job advert. Agency involvement is not required.
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About Ernulf Academy
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- Ernulf Academy
- Barford Road, Eynesbury, St. Neots
- Cambridgeshire
- PE19 2SH
- United Kingdom
This is a fantastic time to join TEAM ERNULF on our turnaround journey. We are on a RAPID MISSION to turn our school into one of the BEST in the country! When the current leadership took over, in September 2024, Ernulf had NEVER received an Ofsted 'Good' in ANY category. In January 2025, after just one term, Ofsted rated us 'Good' in ALL categories. If our rapid improvement and ambition EXCITE you, then join us to disrupt disadvantage by transforming the education of our pupils. We are within an hour's commute of North London, Norfolk, Grantham and Rugby.
We belieive in keeping things simple. Our mantra is: WORK HARD, BE KIND. We don't just want children to attain incredible academic outcomes; we also want to help them become great people.
WORK HARD
Team Ernulf don't believe in fads. We know the biggest factor in a child's achievement is how hard they work. That is why we have sky high expectations. We have simple rules, centralised detentions, and we back our teachers - so that our classrooms are disruption-free. We do this to support our children who want to work hard and do well.
A knowledge-rich curriculum, built on ‘powerful knowledge’, underpins our teaching and learning principles. We offer a traditional approach to teaching, following evidence-based research by Rosenshine. Our pedagogy is influenced by Teach Like A Champion (TLAC). Stimulating lessons are delivered by teachers, who we back as the expert in the room.
BE KIND
Team Ernulf is WWF: warm, welcoming, and friendly. We pride ourselves on having a family atmosphere. We teach our pupils empathy and respect and have zero tolerance to bullying. A scholarly approach is at our core, but teaching pupils to be polite, considerate, and caring is just as important.
Our world-class enrichment programme takes learning beyond the classroom. In Autumn term 2024 alone, children visited Cambridge University, The British Museum, The National Gallery, RAF Hendon, Kenilworth Castle, and were on Channel 5 and BBC radio!! As well as this, every week KS3 children have the opportunity to take part in electives such as British sign language, clubbercise, building a robotic arm, chess, girls cricket, and many more!
OTHER BENEFITS
- Pay above the national scales!
- 8 INSET days per year!
- Whole-class feedback over marking to reduce workload and increase impact!
- Centralised behaviour systems - you do not have to run your own detentions!
- Fully-resourced curriculum - plan your lessons, not the whole curriculum!
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion at Astrea Academy Trust
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.
Astrea Academy Trust embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all requests for flexible working as we know that diversity fosters creativity and innovation.
We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities that we serve. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive and building our culture of belonging. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in Astrea’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, LGBTQI+ people.
All successful appointments will be subject to suitability checks in accordance with KCSIE, including identity, Right to Work, prohibition, qualifications, online searches, two references and enhanced DBS check including the Children’s Barred List.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. Guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, which provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions, can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974
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