Deputy Head of Sport & Health Girls
Alperton Community School, Wembley, Middlesex, HA0 4JE14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
13 January 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
19 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
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Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Physical education
Working pattern
- Full time: Teachers Terms and Conditions
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Inner London Pay Scales MPS (£38,766 - £50,288) / UPS (£55,414.72 - £60,092.09) and TLR 2B £6,021
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Role
We are seeking to appoint a motivated and ambitious Deputy Head of Sport & Health (Girls) to join our well-resourced department. This is an exciting opportunity for an existing or aspiring middleleader who is passionate about ensuring all students have access to outstanding teaching and learning across all key stages. We are a dynamic, supportive, and open minded team constantly striving forexcellence.
The Person
The successful candidate will be an excellent teacher of PE who is ambitious and wants to furthertheir career. You will have high expectations of your students and have an innovative approach tocurriculum ideas, supporting staff development and promoting positive healthy lifestyles across theschool.Do you share our values, have the vision and drive for excellence and want to be part of anenthusiastic and well-resourced team? Then we would like to hear from you.
What the school offers its staff
We are a large, mixed, 11-18 academy with over 350 students in our sixth form. Due to ourincreased popularity and successes, we have recently expanded our roll to 12 forms in each yeargroup. Alperton Community School is an inclusive school with a student intake that reflects awonderfully diverse and vibrant local community. Our students are very well behaved, work hard andare ambitious to succeed. Our most recent Ofsted inspection in July 2021 graded our school asGood "Pupils like coming to school and they enjoy their lessons"; "Pupils can focus because they feelsafe"; "Leaders’ expectations of all pupils are high"; "Pupils behave well in school. They focus on theirlearning in lessons. Pupils follow teachers’ instructions and listen to one another".
Student progress at GCSE and A Level has been well above national averages for many years withdisadvantaged students’ outcomes closely matching their peers. Our progress 8 score was 0.82 in2023 (well above average) with A Level progress in the top 1% of schools. We also see high numbersof our students’ progress to Oxbridge and Russell Group Universities. Student attendance isexcellent and the percentage of students who remain in education, employment or training are alsowell above national averages.Recent awards include the 2022 Pearson “Making a Difference” Award; the school was recentlyshortlisted for the TES School of the Year and won the TES Maths Team of the Year.
This is an exceptional opportunity. It will offer the successful candidate a friendly, highly supportiveand committed working environment within a culture of success and professional growth. The schooloffers excellent support for ECTs in their induction year.
The Benefits
Continuing Professional Development
Employee Assistance Programme
Cashback Health Benefits
Cycle to Work Scheme
Pension Scheme
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to hr@alperton.brent.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
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About Alperton Community School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1948 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Alperton Community School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- hr@alperton.brent.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 02089022038
We are a large, mixed, 11-18 academy with over 350 students in our sixth form. Due to our increased popularity as a school, we expanded our roll in 2018. Alperton Community School is an inclusive school with a student intake that reflects a wonderfully diverse and vibrant local community. Our students are very well behaved, work hard and are ambitious to succeed. Our most recent Ofsted inspection in July 2021 graded our school as Good "Pupils like coming to school and they enjoy their lessons"; "Pupils can focus because they feel safe"; "Leaders’ expectations of all pupils are high"; "Pupils behave well in school. They focus on their learning in lessons. Pupils follow teachers’ instructions and listen to one another".
Student progress at GCSE and A Level has been above national averages for many years with disadvantaged students performing well above national averages. Our progress 8 score has been consistently “above average”. We also see high numbers of our students’ progress to Oxbridge and Russell Group Universities. Student attendance and the percentage of students who remain in education, employment or training are also well above national averages.
Recent awards include the 2022 Pearson “Making a Difference” Award; the school was recently shortlisted for the TES School of the Year and won the TES Maths Team of the Year. We are also one of only four schools in the country to hold the Platinum Professional Development Mark.
This is an exceptional opportunity. It will offer the successful candidate a friendly, highly supportive and committed working environment within a culture of success and professional growth. The school offers excellent support for ECTs in their induction year.
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