Deputy Head of Physical Education
Orleans Park School, Twickenham, TW1 3BB4 days remaining to apply
Start date details
January 2025
Closing date
30 September 2024 at 9am
Date listed
19 September 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
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Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Physical education
Working pattern
- Full time: School hours
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS/UPS (Outer London) plus TLR2a
Additional allowances
TLR2a (£3,214)
What skills and experience we're looking for
Orleans Park is a successful and oversubscribed 11-18 mixed comprehensive that serves its local community in Twickenham with over 1,350 students. The dedicated staff work hard to ensure students are successful and leave as responsible citizens and confident individuals.
We are looking for a dynamic and talented Deputy Head of Physical Education to join a thriving and highly successful department. The successful candidate should have broad based subject knowledge in order to teach PE at Key Stages 3, 4 and 5, and be an ambitious person with high expectations for yourself and your students. We offer a very extensive extra-curricular sports program and manage a number of teams in numerous activities, competing at borough, regional and national level. The successful applicant would be expected to make a significant contribution to these.
We welcome applications from newly qualified or experienced teachers. Expertise in Football, Rugby or Netball would be an advantage but not essential and experience teaching theoretical content is desirable. A full and clean driving licence is required.
The successful candidate will:
- Be able to develop, plan and deliver effective and high-quality learning experiences to all students
- Be a newly qualified or experienced teacher who is enthusiastic, influential and committed to working in pursuit of success for the academy and its learners
What the school offers its staff
Please see our recruitment video on the Vacancies page of our website.
Further details about the role
If you are interested in this position, please do apply today. We look forward to receiving your application.
Applications are shortlisted for interview as they are received so early application is encouraged and we reserve the right to commence the interview process and close the vacancy prior to this date.
Closing date for applications: 10am on 30 September 2024
Interviews during week beginning 30 September 2024
Orleans Park is committed to continuing to make diversity, equity, and inclusion part of everything we do – from how we educate our students to how we support our staff. Ensuring that we are always recruiting, retaining and promoting a diverse mix of colleagues who are representative of the diversity in our local communities gives us a great opportunity to have access to a broad range of ideas and allows us to provide an outstanding education to our young people and an outstanding place for people to work.
In line with the statutory guidance document Keeping Children Safe in Education (2024) the school will conduct online searches after the shortlisting process for any candidates who accept an invitation to interview. The appointment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including references, medical clearance and an enhanced DBS Disclosure. Orleans Park is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are an equal opportunities employer.
Commitment to safeguarding
The governors and staff of Orleans Park fully recognise the contribution they make to safeguarding children. We recognise that all staff, including volunteers, have a full and active part to play in protecting our students
from harm.
All staff and governors believe our school is a place where students feel secure, are encouraged to talk, are listened to and are safe. We shall provide a caring, positive, safe and stimulating environment that promotes
the social, physical and moral development of the individual child.
Applying for the job
Apply for the job by following the link below.
CVs are not accepted.
About Orleans Park School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
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- School size
- 1373 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Orleans Park School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@orleanspark.school
Orleans Park is a happy, thriving, successful and oversubscribed 11-18 mixed comprehensive that serves its local community in Twickenham with over 1,350 students.
Please see our recruitment video on the Vacancies page of our website.
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