Lead Practitioner of Maths

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Lead Practitioner of Maths to join our team from September 24. 

This is an exciting opportunity which will enable you to develop your leadership skills by working both within the Mathematics department and across the academy to raise standards in teaching and learning.

Why Us?

• The successful candidate will join a successful and fully staffed department.
• The Head of Faculty for Mathematics and the team have ensured that topics are sequenced effectively, through a detailed scheme of work which incorporates a strategic approach to the learning of each topic, enabling students to build their knowledge and skills over time, and exposing students to a rich and broad curriculum.
• The mathematics faculty is based in a designated block and is shared with the English Faculty. The block has recently been renovated, providing spacious and well-designed classrooms with the resources required for a modern teaching and learning environment.
• Mathematics is taught by subject specialists who have a passion for Mathematics, and more importantly a passion to develop our students in a subject that underpins a variety of subjects, helping them to become multi-skilled individuals.

About Northern Ambition Academies Trust:

• As a Trust, we place people at the heart of everything we do. Our organisation is driven by a strong moral purpose. We are first and foremost an educational charity established to benefit children and local communities.
• The Trust has a collaborative network both internally across our family of schools but also externally with other education providers across West Yorkshire and beyond. The Trust currently comprises four schools across the primary and secondary phases, with plans for future growth and the opportunities that brings. Airedale Academy has solid finances and rising student numbers over the next few years.
• CPD opportunities are readily accessible internally and via the National College, Every E-Learning Platform and subject specialist associations. The Trust has a collaborative network both internally across our family of schools but also externally with other education providers across West Yorkshire and beyond.

We understand the importance of our colleague’s wellbeing and offer a range of benefits including:

• Access to the Trust’s Employee Assistance Programme providing a range of health and wellbeing resources and experts.
• Our commitment to staff wellbeing (as shown by our Wellbeing Awards for Schools and school-based Staff Wellbeing Ambassadors who are all trained Mental Health First Aiders).
• Trust wide commitment to reducing the workload of all staff through the use of Technology (both hardware and software).
• The provision of informal staff workrooms.
• Access to the Trust’s new Fitness Suite (based at Airedale Academy) from September 2024.

We would encourage you to visit us so that you can see for yourself what our Trust has to offer you. Please contact our Recruitment Partner at Hays Education by email michelle.audis@hays.com or by telephone on 07840047154 for an application pack, to organise a visit or for a confidential discussion.