Lead Practitioner Responsibility

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This is a new role being added to the leadership structure across our trust and is to be advertised internally next week.

Can anyone give an idea of what the job looks like day to day and how it fits alongside a nearly full teaching load?

It depends. Mine is whole school rather than subject specific, and involves me being a human pinball a lot of the time.

Depends - we have school-based Lead Pracs in core subjects. This is the role I have, it’s pretty cushty. I do some whole-school coaching across other subjects, but mostly my responsibilities fall within improving T&L in my department. As a MAT, we also have Trust Lead Pracs in all subject areas, they do a day a week working with other schools across the MAT. They also do things like creating trust wide SoW, assessments, INSET etc.

edit: to add, I get 4 lessons remission a week to do the role alongside my teaching load. I’m 0.8FTE.

Thanks for taking the time to respond, especially as it seems to depend.

It sounds like there will be a general focus on teaching and learning, including CPD and QA, but also with areas of responsibility aligned to NPQs. Unsure how much will be directly linked to subjects at this point (or whether that's been decided) and how much release time will come with the role.

I get 8 periods a week (3 PPA, one floating cover, and 4 for lead prac). Part of my role is ITT and ECT.

At the moment I have at least 3 obs to do every week plus associated paperwork and meetings. There have been too many weeks this year in which every single non contact period has been taken up with something.

I'm assuming there would be some mentoring and coaching included, particularly as we'll be having a Teach First teacher on the department in September. Where these are currently undertaken by someone with no additional responsibility, there is protected time allocated, but I'm guessing this would just be part of the remit.

Oh god... teach first :(

I know! We advertised earlier in the year and didn't appoint, so this is what we've got instead...

Hope this one understands they need to plan the lessons, not wing it, and check the work, rather then ignoring it, but in my experience they'll be recommended for QTS regardless!

Thinking if I've got this to contend with anyway for the next two years, it could be good to have other areas to focus on too.

The last time I was lumbered with one of those, they didn't have a "fail" process. We had to ask him to leave.

I have seen the roles implemented into a structure across other trusts.
They essentially fit in and bridge the gap between Head of Department level and Assistant Headteacher.

From what I’ve seen - core subjects have them but also some have wider school responsibilities.

Teaching & Learning and CPD are mainly WSR.