Having started his teaching career in the maintained sector Ralph moved to the independent sector in 2008. In 2018 he became the Headteacher at a co-educational ISA prep school. Prior to this, he was Senior Deputy Head at an IAPS co-ed day school where he held numerous roles including compliance lead, DSL, academic lead and pastoral lead.
Since 2019 he has been both a compliance and team inspector for inspections of pre-prep, junior, senior and boarding schools.