Leadership Practitioner - LP2 to LP8

Full Time, Part Time, Permanent

January 2025 or Easter 2025

22 November 2024

Salary: Leadership range LP2 to LP8
Contract: Full time / Part-time
Laurel Park School is the new school for Palmers Green and Southgate.
The foundation of our new school is built upon school staff and students having positive relationships and valuing each young person for their uniqueness and individual talents. Here at Laurel Park School we acknowledge the needs of all our students and will strive not only for academic success but to ensure that we develop the whole child, in order to prepare them for 21st century life. Our overall curriculum intent is based on four key areas that operate throughout the school:

• My Curriculum
• My Character
• My Culture
• My Community

The ethos of our new school is grounded in our core values of Integrity, Determination, Excellence and Ambition, which permeate through everything we do. We are a school that has classrooms full of happy and polite young people ready to work hard and aim high.
We are seeking to appoint an ambitious and highly effective Lead Practitioner - Math Specialist. Like us, you will be dynamic, innovative and hardworking. You will also have exceptional knowledge, a desire to positively impact upon our students and a firm commitment to high academic achievement. Above all you will be dedicated to giving all our students an outstanding education.
The post holder will be an integral part of our Teaching and Learning Team, leading on teaching and learning initiatives and strategies throughout the school.
Do you have the ability to?

• Raise the teaching practice of all members of staff, and therefore raises student standards and progress.
• Be a model of excellent practice, maintaining a clear focus on outstanding delivery to learners ensuring a centre of best practice and excellence.
• Take a lead role, working closely with the senior leadership team and other leading practitioners in developing, implementing and evaluating policies and practice that lead to school improvement.

The combination of impressive facilities, a broad and balanced curriculum, a passionate and dedicated teaching staff, supported by a strong leadership team guarantees our pupils’ success and enjoyment in their time at Laurel Park. Every child is understood for the person they are and will become. They are supported through their challenges, and their accomplishments are celebrated.
What’s unique about us:

• A strong focus on staff care and wellbeing
• High quality training and support
• A clear career pathway
• Employee assistance programme
• Employee discount schemes via CSSC
• Early Wednesday finish for students so staff have high quality CPD, but "Wonderful Wednesdays" will also be the slot for meetings and parent evenings
• Two week October half term
• Live marking in the classroom - the there and then feedback is the most powerful
• All staff have a well-being day - you can choose any day across the academic year
• Enhanced PPA time
• All staff can have a free school meal everyday, cooked by our great Chef educator
• An excellent pastoral team who oversee and manage behaviour so that teachers can just focus on their teaching
• Staff socials and quizzes

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Please see the job description and person specification for further information on this post.
The closing date for applications is midnight on Friday 22nd November 2024
We reserve the right to interview and appoint to this position prior to the closing date.
RECRUITMENT STATEMENT
The school is committed to the fair treatment of its staff, workers, potential staff/workers and users of its services regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, social, marital or civil status, pregnancy or maternity reasons, having responsibility for dependants, Trade Union involvement or any other grounds irrelevant to the role or service in question. Similarly, the school will not treat unfairly, or discriminate against, anyone with a criminal record. Having a criminal record does not mean that an individual will automatically be prevented from obtaining employment or working in this school.
The school also requires consent from applicants to carry out online searches of publicly available information, including social media, prior to interview.
Laurel Park School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are committed to safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.

As soon as visitors come to Laurel Park, they are struck by the warmth and family feel of the school where students and staff are happy and successful. We are committed to working with talented individuals who share our vision and values and celebrate the best in everyone. Nurturing the best talent in diverse roles is what we are about.

The combination of impressive facilities, a broad and balanced curriculum, a passionate and dedicated teaching staff, supported by a strong leadership team guarantees our pupils’ success and enjoyment in their time at Laurel Park. Every child is understood for the person they are and will become. They are supported through their challenges, and their accomplishments are celebrated.
What’s unique about us:

• A strong focus on staff care and wellbeing
• High quality training and support
• A clear career pathway
• Employee assistance programme
• Employee discount schemes via
  CSSC
• Early Wednesday finish for students so staff have high quality CPD, but wonderful Wednesdays will also be the slot for meetings and parent evenings
• Two week October half term
• Live marking in the classroom - the there and then feedback is the most powerful
• All staff have a well-being day - you can choose any day across the academic year
• Enhanced PPA time
• All staff can have a free school meal everyday, cooked by our great Chef educator
• An excellent pastoral team who oversee and manage behaviour so that teachers can just focus on their teaching
• Staff socials and quizzes

Supporting high quality teaching is pivotal in improving children’s outcomes.

Here at Laurel Park School your Training and Development is important to us. There are opportunities to develop and grow yourself and we encourage that you take positive steps to embrace these opportunities.
Every Wednesday afternoon the staff receive professional development training. The range of training on offer is vast including - supporting EAL students, Using Artificial Intelligence for reducing workload, safeguarding, managing behaviour, phonics and adaptive teaching strategies. We meet termly to share good practice through Teach Meets and every teacher chooses a Teaching & Learning working group to develop a greater understanding of that area. These groups include foci like ‘raising achievement of boys’, ‘developing expectations for exercise books’ and ‘developing extended writing skills’.