TLR or Lead Practitioner

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Just that really, if one has a job title as a lead teacher does that automatically mean the pay point should be on the Lead Practitioner scales or would a TLR suffice/be acceptable?
Not wanting to rock the boat but I’m curious as there are potentially a couple of thousand pounds at stake here..

No it doesn't. Many lead teachers, especially heads fo departments and faculties, are TLR. But often the TLR and L spine cross over. For example, a friend of mine is on L6 as head of faculty. I am on TLR as head of department and outearn her. Then you also have to consider the additional duties on the leadership scale, the fact that you can be asked to come in on days off, asked to work later for meetings etc and then start to ask yourself whether leadership scale is worth it for anything outside of SLT.

The leading practitioner pay range is not the same as the leadership group pay range.

The leading practitioner pay range is specifically for qualified teachers employed in posts that have the "primary purpose of modelling and leading improvement of teaching skills". So if that is what expected of a "lead teacher" then they should be on the leading practitioner pay range.

For a teacher paid on the STPCD outside London/fringe, the max of the leading practitioner range is £72,085 which is considerably higher than the max for a teacher on UPS 3 plus the highest possible TLR (£46,525 + £15,690 = £62,215).

Obviously not all leading practitioners will be on the max of the scale. It starts at £47,417 (again outside London).