Lead Practitioner - Science

Based at Eden Park High School 

Education for the 21st Century 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.  

About the role:

Improving quality of teaching and learning 

• Carry out teaching responsibilities in line with the professional duties of a teacher 
• 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-to-1 support to improve their practice 
• Use data to identify individuals or groups that need further teaching support and develop and implement strategies to raise the quality of teaching 
• Use data to identify individuals or groups of pupils that need targeted support, and develop and implement strategies to raise achievement 
• Set challenging and ambitious targets for pupils on interventions and update parents on progress 
• Measure and assess the impact of interventions to raise achievement for pupils and the quality of teaching 
• Promote strategies which support differentiation, inclusion and positive behaviour 
• Provide support schools in subject area across the Trust when required 
• Provide support as directed to support the teaching and learning of the school 
• Complete duties as required in line with leaders. 

Monitoring and evaluation 

• Co-ordinate and carry out monitoring and evaluation activities to improve teaching and learning, including work scrutinies, 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 

Professional development 

• Lead on researching best practice and keeping up-to-date with the latest developments 
• Share knowledge with staff and offer support to implement the research into their own practice 
• Inform staff about the latest innovations in intervention strategies 
• Lead on identifying high quality CPD programmes to improve quality of teaching and learning 
• Take part in the school’s appraisal procedures 
• Take part in further training and development in order to improve own practice 
• Where appropriate, take part in the appraisal and professional development of others 
• Add any other duties of particular relevance to your school 
• Management of staff and resources 
• Direct and supervise support staff assigned to them, and where appropriate, other teachers 
• Contribute to the recruitment and professional development of other teachers and support staff 
• Deploy resources delegated to them 
• Support middle leader development 
• Support curriculum development 
• Lead on CPD as required 

Safeguarding 

• Work in line with statutory safeguarding guidance (e.g. Keeping Children Safe in Education, Prevent) and our safeguarding and child protection policies 
• Work with the designated safeguarding lead (DSL) to promote the best interests of pupils, including sharing concerns where necessary 
• Promote the safeguarding of all pupils in 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. 

Education for the 21st Century 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. Education for the 21st Century is fully committed to equality and to valuing diversity as an employer and a provider of education.