Lead Practitioner Science
Heston Community School
Heston
- New
- Salary:
- L6 – L10 (£62,677 - £68,799)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 01 September 2026
- Apply by:
- 27 March 2026
Job overview
The Board of Trustees are looking to appoint an outstanding Physics teacher as Lead Practitioner to join our highly successful Science Team. As Lead Practitioner, you will use your outstanding pedagogy and leadership to ensure all our students experience high standards of teaching and learning in science. Furthermore, you will lead in enhancing the provision for our more-able cohort.
Heston Community School is a successful, vibrant, happy and oversubscribed school where ‘pupils have high aspirations and want to succeed in education. Leaders have established the right school climate for them to do so. Pupils achieve very well in a wide range of subjects in the main school and sixth form’ [OFSTED December 2022]. We are now seeking to appoint an individual who shares our passion for learning and our determination to change lives through the education we provide.
We place great store in staff development, at all levels with an extensive programme of professional development which offers a whole range of opportunities for colleagues to develop their potential within and beyond Heston.
We believe that schools can and do make a difference; change lives and that the most important asset in any school is its staff. The success of Heston Community School is due to our dedicated, committed, experienced and enthusiastic staff.
The Governing Body is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share in this commitment. This appointment is subject to an enhanced DBS check and positive references.
Attached documents
Recruiter contact:
About Heston Community School
Heston Community School is a mainstream, co-educational, non-denominational, state-academy, secondary school for children aged 11-19. It is situated in Hounslow in Middlesex and it has 1220 pupils on its roll.
The school was officially opened by the Charter Mayor in 1932 at a cost of £21,700 and attended by what was described as one of the largest and most representative assemblies which had ever gathered in Heston.
More recently the Hogarth Building was opened in 2010 and a purpose-built sports facility and a state of the art learning and teaching facility.
Headteacher
Ranjit Berdesha
Values and vision
The school says to have a passion for learning and an aim to make Heston Community school a great school that provides an outstanding and creative education for its students. It tries to ensure all of its stakeholders are valued and can contribute to the school community, and to become one of the best secondary schools in the local area and nationwide.
Ofsted
“Pupils, and learners in the sixth form, mix well together and conduct themselves in an orderly and mature way. The introduction, in September 2015, of a programme to encourage pupils to challenge themselves and work hard, has been welcomed. Teachers provide a range of activities and pupils were keen to explain to inspectors how they stretch themselves by the choices they make. Pupils enjoy coming to school, work hard and have excellent relationships with their teachers.”
Please note that you are wholly responsible for fact checking in respect of the information provided by schools. Please also check for the latest visa and work permit requirements that may apply. Tes is not responsible for the content of advertisements or the policies adopted by advertising schools. Tes asks that all schools follow Tes' Fair Recruitment Policy.