30 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    April or September 2025

  • Closing date

    20 January 2025 at 8am

  • Date listed

    11 December 2024

Job details

Job role

  • Head of department or curriculum

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5

Subject

Physical education

Working pattern

Full time: 32.5 hours per week Monday to Friday

Contract type

Permanent

Pay scale

MPS/UPS

Additional allowances

TLR 2A £8,279 pa

What skills and experience we're looking for

Head of PE Department

Required for April or September 2025 MPS/UPS

Full-time Permanent TLR 2A £8,279 pa

We are seeking an enthusiastic and dynamic colleague to lead the Physical Education Department within this popular and successful selective girls’ school. The successful candidate will have a passion for Physical Education and be committed to promoting high quality teaching and learning within this thriving department and they will have extensive experience teaching to GCSE and also A level. Extra curricular activities are a strength of the school. GCSE and A level Dance are also offered.

We welcome applications from candidates who can demonstrate:

  • a passion for teaching PE

  • commitment to promoting high quality teaching and learning within this department

  • ability to promote PE across the curriculum

  • experience of teaching PE to A level standard.

Maidstone Grammar School for Girls is a very successful selective girls’ school of 1270 students with a mixed sixth form of approximately 360. MGGS has been appointed by the Department for Education as a Regional Computer Hub in recognition of the expertise the school has evidenced in Computing Education and will take a lead in training teachers across the south east in the delivery of Computing. The post offers the opportunity to work with intellectually able young people in a supportive and friendly environment. Staff benefits include strong support for professional development and healthcare scheme.

“Maidstone Grammar School for Girls is an outstanding school” (Ofsted March 2023)

Applicants should complete the application form and email it along with a covering letter addressed to the Headteacher, Miss Deborah Stanley via mstarns@mggs.org. Applicants are strongly encouraged to also complete our Equal Opportunities & Recruitment Monitoring Form. If you require any additional information please contact Ms Starns, PA to the Headteacher via email: mstarns@mggs.org.

Please note that pre-interview visits are not available, however, full information including a virtual tour can be found on our website https://www.mggs.org/

Applications welcomed immediately

Applications will be considered in the order in which they are received. Suitable candidates may be interviewed before the closing date and Maidstone Grammar School for Girls reserves the right to withdraw the position if an early appointment is made.

Closing Date: 8am on 20th January 2025

Interviews: 22nd January 2025

Our School and all its personnel are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children. This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

The post is exempt from section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. The amendments to the ROA 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975, (2013 and 2020)). It is not, therefore, in any way contrary to the Act to reveal any information concerning convictions which would otherwise be considered as “spent” in relation to the applicant’s suitability for employment. Any such information will be kept in strict confidence and only used in consideration of the suitability of the applicant for such a position where such an exemption is appropriate.


What the school offers its staff

The post offers the opportunity to work with intellectually able young people in a supportive and friendly environment.

Staff benefits include strong support for professional development and healthcare scheme.

On-site parking.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our School and all its personnel are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children. This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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About Maidstone Grammar School for Girls

School type
Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
Education phase
Secondary
School size
1244 pupils enrolled
Age range
11 to 18
Email address
mstarns@mggs.org

Maidstone Grammar School for Girls is a very successful selective girls’ school of 1240 students with a mixed sixth form of approximately 340. MGGS has been appointed by the Department for Education as a Regional Computer Hub in recognition of the expertise the school has evidenced in Computing Education and will take a lead in training teachers across the south east in the delivery of Computing. The post offers the opportunity to work with intellectually able young people in a supportive and friendly environment. Staff benefits include strong support for professional development and healthcare scheme.

“Maidstone Grammar School for Girls is an outstanding school” (Ofsted March 2023)

If you wish to find out more about MGGS please visit our website at https://www.mggs.org/ and to take a virtual tour please visit https://youtu.be/kuqmn-D4AJY

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