What skills and experience we're looking for
Crestwood High School has an exciting and brand-new opportunity for a Lead Practitionerto work alongside the Head of English. The successful candidate will be a qualified instructional coach, or be prepared to complete this training, to develop teaching, learning and pedagogy across the department and wider school.
The Lead Practitioner of English is part of a team of professionals that take responsibility for developing quality of teaching, learning and pedagogy across the department and wider school. The Lead Practitioner is also accountable for ensuring students have opportunities for and experiences of extra-curricular English activities.
The Lead Practitioner works very closely with the Head of Department, Senior members of staff and members of the central team. Lead Practitioners accelerate improvement and raise standards in their subject area.
Lead Practitioners will support in planning and teaching high quality lessons, improving outcomes, whilst ensuring students engage in extra-curricular activities. Lead Practitioners will analyse performance data to ensure that students are appropriately supported to achieve their best possible outcomes.
Please see attached job description for more details.
What the school offers its staff
The Crestwood School is part of theInvictus Education Trust, to learn more about the Trust please clickhereor visit our websitehere
The Crestwood School is a secondary school for children between the ages of 11 and 16. It is a coeducational establishment which was converted to academy status in March 2015. It is based in the town of Kingswinford, West Midlands, in Dudley.
Crestwood School exists to provide an unrivalled learning environment for the young people in our local and wider community. Through our teaching and pastoral care we aim to develop independent young people with a thirst for learning. We encourage students to strive to make more progress than is expected of them. We encourage students to strive to achieve more than is expected of them. Our students know, if they do so, they will achieve more success than is expected of them.
The Crestwood School aims to help every student to develop into independent adults. The curriculum is stimulating and enriches the children’s minds. Students who have respect and tolerance for others are valued by the academy. By working hard, the students should be able to achieve excellent results with the support from the teachers.
Commitment to safeguarding
We are deeply committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Children and expect all Staff and Volunteers to share this commitment. All necessary Safeguarding checks will be undertaken which must have satisfactory outcomes, otherwise the conditional job offer may be withdrawn. Details of the checks that will be undertake can be found at: KCSIE, 2023 This role has been assessed as working in regulated activity and is subject to an Enhanced DBS plus Children’s Barred List Check. It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.