SCHOOL

Lead Practitioner - Maths

Waseley Hills High School · Birmingham

Job description

We are seeking an outstanding and ambitious Lead Practitioner of Maths to join our thriving secondary school. Rated Ofsted Good in all areas, our school benefits from a fully refurbished new-build with state-of-the-art facilities, providing an exceptional environment for both teaching and learning.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing Mathematics department with a strong commitment to excellence and continuous improvement. As a Lead Practitioner, you will play a key role in driving high-quality teaching and learning, supporting colleagues, and helping to raise student achievement across the department. You will work collaboratively with colleagues across our trust, sharing best practice, developing innovative approaches to teaching, and contributing to trust-wide initiatives that improve outcomes for all students.

The successful candidate will be an excellent classroom practitioner with a passion for Mathematics and a proven ability to inspire both students and staff in addition to improving student outcomes. The ability to teach Economics at KS5 is advantageous.

All teachers are subject to the Conditions of Employment set out in their contract of employment and the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document. These detail the professional and particular duties required of teachers, together with requirements for Management time, Working time and Guaranteed planning and preparation time. The Trust and its schools comply with these requirements in order to make reasonable demands of teachers as a minimum but optionally offer an incredible wellbeing package including free tea and coffee facilities, free eye tests, flu vaccination, cycle scheme and an employee assistance programme that offers a wide range of free support from emotional to financial and legal.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Online checks will be carried out on shortlisted candidates and an enhanced DBS will be required for the successful candidate. All successful candidates will be required to present their birth certificate along with evidence of any name changes.

Please note that applications must be the creation of the candidate applying. While technology, including artificial intelligence, may be used to help the candidate select certain phraseology, if substantial use of AI is used, the application will be disregarded.

The completed form should be submitted by 11.59pm on Sunday 5th July 2026 with interviews the week commencing 6th July. Please submit applications early as we reserve the right to interview and close the vacancy early should suitable candidates apply.

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