Sports Technician
Allerton High School, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS17 7AG6 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2026
Closing date
8 July 2026 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
2 July 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Physical education
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- C1 £28,598 - £31,022 pro rata. Actual salary £25,229 - £27,367.
What skills and experience we're looking for
The precise nature of duties will be determined by the skills, knowledge and qualifications of the post holder. A qualified teacher would have more teaching contact.
- To complete administration tasks including the distribution of consent forms and information letters, documenting responses and any relevant student information and the production of extra-curricular registers
- To coordinate calendar of fixtures, booking transport for fixtures, booking and arranging facilities and referees with respect to safeguarding procedures. Liaising with opposing schools and teachers
- To assist PE team in the successful delivery of the sports curriculum including extra-curricular activity
- To assist in the marketing of sports events and opportunities for students.
- To provide assistance and coaching to individuals and small groups of students
- To liaise regularly with PE staff to ensure that there is appropriate resourcing and planning of activities for students
- To prepare spaces, equipment and kit for lessons/matches and ensure the studios, spaces and equipment are maintained appropriately
- To demonstrate to students and staff the safe uses of equipment and processes, where appropriate
- To cover for absent PE colleagues
- To be responsible, while at work, for ensuring that reasonable care is taken for your own health and safety and for the health and safety of the teaching and learning environment and those in it
- A willingness to learn any relevant skills
- To be responsible and take ownership for your continuous professional development, undertaking relevant training where appropriate
- To teach a small number of lessons as determined by the needs of the timetable (unqualified pay rate)
What the school offers its staff
Why choose Allerton High School?
- Culture of high expectations: teachers can teach and students can learn
- Community: a diverse, harmonious and respectful school community
- Ambition: consistently strong progress, high aspirations and motivated students
- Support: well-established systems, a wide CPD offer, highly visible senior leadership team
- Staff morale: a sensible approach to workload, high morale, low staff turnover
Allerton High School is a large, over-subscribed comprehensive school in North Leeds. Following recent expansion due to high demand in the local area, we now accept 280 students into Year 7 and have a thriving Sixth Form with over 400 students.
Values and vision:
At Allerton High, our core purpose is ‘enabling young people to achieve success.’ We wantallstudents to achieve the best they can, become independent learners and acquire the skills and qualities they will need to be successful in an ever-changing world. We want them to feel valued and to be happy and confident. We work in close partnership with our community, parents/carers and governors to achieve this ideal and to deliver what we consider to be a first class education.
We value: hard work, kindness, perseverance, aspiration, service to others, courtesy, honesty and tolerance.As such, we ask all members of our community to:
- Be Kind;
- Work Hard;
- Challenge Yourself
Our most recent Ofsted was in November 2024 where the school was judged ‘Outstanding’ in all areas. Students make excellent academic progress during their time with us, but they are also encouraged to do their best in all spheres of learning. We have worked closely with our community to ensure we have provided excellent systems of care, guidance and support so that students know how to keep themselves safe, happy and healthy.
What is it like to work here?
At Allerton High School, we believe that high quality teaching is the most important lever we have to maximise engagement and success for our students. We have a sensible and evidence-informed approach to classroom practice; we believe that high quality teaching and learning is informed by prior knowledge, centred upon the most effective pedagogical strategies and committed to ensuring all students make progress and are challenged to aim high.
At AHS, teaching and learning and behaviour management are inextricably linked. Our Key Classroom Expectations and Learning Zones initiative create predictable classroom environments and instil good learning behaviours. Our well-established Positive Behaviour system, centred upon sanctions and rewards, supports teachers to uphold high standards of behaviour for learning in their classrooms and promotes strong teacher-student relationships.
Our PINS feedback policy has been designed so that that our students receive clear and specific teacher feedback, without placing an unnecessary burden on teacher workload. We believe in timely and bespoke responsive teaching methods and so, where possible, we build intervention into our curriculum offer.
Further information about the job
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
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
About Allerton High School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary school
- School size
- 1764 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Allerton High School website
- Email address
- dovek@allertonhigh.org.uk
- Phone number
- 0113 203 4783
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