Job Description

Employer
Rushey Mead Academy
Location
Leicester, Leicestershire
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Salary
L1-L4 (51,773 - 55,747 per annum)
Posted
1st October 2025
Start Date
5th January 2026
Expires
15th October 2025 11:59 PM
Contract Type
Permanent
Start Date
5th January 2026
Job ID
1511605
Job Reference
LP Mat 25-26

Lead Practitioner - Mathematics - Full-time Permanent

Start Date: January 2026

Job ref: LP Mat 25-26

Salary: L1-L4 (51,773 - 55,747 per annum)

We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic Maths specialist to join our highly successful Maths department, in a school where:


Staff are nurtured to develop their craft. Maths is valued by students and families; Resources are centrally and collaboratively planned; Results in Maths have been significantly above national averages for many years The school's progress 8 score is significantly above average at +0.8 to +1.2 consistently and ranked in the top 5% nationally; Excellent CPD opportunities through our professional learning Mondays, co-planning time and CPD Library. Where there is a strong academic ethos and high expectations of students; Where behaviour management is centralised and teachers are enabled to flourish.

We can offer you the opportunity to advance your career within a supportive academy environment.

This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of a high achieving and forward-thinking department within a highly successful school. You will be able to take advantage of their evidence led practice and learn from them to aid you contribute to a department which regularly achieves above the national average.



We look to improve, not because we are not good enough but because we can always do better



Rushey Mead Academy is well placed to offer a comprehensive support package to ECTs from all routes into teaching, including PGCE, SCITT, Schools Direct and Teach First. Both new and established teachers will be supported and encouraged to develop their practice by engaging in the numerous opportunities to collaborate and share ideas with colleagues within our Professional Learning programme.



Rushey Mead Academy is part of The Mead Educational Trust (TMET) which is a growing partnership of primary and secondary schools situated in the East Midlands. The Trust draws its educational excellence from the established track record of the high-quality education provision of Rushey Mead Academy, the Trust's convertor academy.



TMET provides its academies access to a world-class education network and staff with an employer providing high quality professional development. We are committed to ensuring each academy enables every pupil to achieve the very best. We believe that together we make a positive difference.

Please see the enclosed and Person Specification for more information.

The successful candidate will be required to undertake an Enhanced DBS Disclosure check. This post will involve contact with vulnerable groups (children, young people and/or adults) and is therefore, exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. This exemption means that shortlisted applicants for this post will be required to declare all criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands, and bind- overs both spent and unspent in their application, before interview and regardless of the passage of time.

How to apply:

If you are interested in this post, please complete the application form online.



A letter detailing why you are a suitable candidate for the position should accompany your completed application form.



Please see the documents listed below, which may assist you in making your application:


Applicant Pack Application and Recruitment Process document

Should you have any queries regarding your application please contact us.

Closing date: Wednesday 15th October 2025

Interview date: Tuesday 28th October 2025

Rushey Mead Academy is committed to:


safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment equal opportunities and equal value for staff and students, prevention of discrimination in its many forms

NO AGENCIES OR CVs PLEASE

Safeguarding Statement:

This post will involve contact with vulnerable groups (children, young people and/or adults) and is therefore, exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Disclosure check. This exemption means that shortlisted applicants for this post will be required to declare all criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands, and bind- overs both spent and unspent in their application, before interview and regardless of the passage of time.