Teacher of PE (Girls)
Codsall Community High School, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, WV8 1PQ23 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
12 May 2025 at 9am
Date listed
11 April 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Subject
- Physical education
Working pattern
- Part time: 0.6 FTE
Contract type
- Fixed term - 1 academic year - Maternity or parental leave cover
Pay scale
- M1 - M3
What skills and experience we're looking for
Teacher of PE (Girls) – Fixed Term – 1 year in the first instance, Part Time (0.6 FTE)
M1 – M3
Codsall Community High School
Closing Date – 9am Monday 12th May 2025
Codsall High is a comprehensive school for students in Years 9 to 13 situated in a semi-rural area of Staffordshire near Wolverhampton. It has over a thousand students on roll and almost three hundred in its successful sixth form.
Codsall High is a good school where pupils behave and achieve well (see OFSTED report).
The PE Department is staffed with dedicated teachers. Staff work together, support each other and go the extra mile to support their students. It is a great department to work in. We are looking for a dynamic and inspirational PE Teacher to join our school September 2025.
The ability to teach Core PE and either BTEC Sport or GCSE PE is essential. Having experience of classroom teaching of BTEC Sport or GCSE PE would be an advantage.
This post would be suitable for an experienced teacher who is looking to develop their practice in a new school, or an exceptional teacher in the early stages of their career.
Excellent support will be provided within the PE Department and from across the school to help you become a great PE Teacher.
To arrange an informal discussion about the post or to visit the school please contact Miss Williams, the Headteacher’s PA, at dwl@sslp.uk or call 01902 907560.
Please email completed application forms along with a letter of application to Mrs Straw on jobs@sslp.uk by Monday 12th May 2025.
"This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment". This position is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure check under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Further details regarding this check are available from schools or by visiting www.crb.gov.uk”
Job Description
Post Title
Teacher of Physical Education (Girls)
Purpose
- To deliver high quality lessons in Core PE.
- To deliver high quality lessons and secure outstanding progress in GCSE PE and/or BTEC Sport.
- To run after school and lunchtime enrichment activities.
Reporting to
Head of Physical Education and Performing Arts
Liaising with
Teachers, non-teaching staff and parents.
School policies and planning
- To implement all relevant federation and school policies.
- To contribute to the Team Improvement Plan for Physical Education and its implementation.
- To contribute to the implementation of the School Development Plan.
Curriculum planning
- To produce high quality lesson plans with supporting resources for own classes.
- To share planning and resources with other colleagues.
Assessment
- To share model answers with students on BTEC and GCSE courses so they can assess their own and the work of their peers so they know what they need to do to improve.
- To provide students with feedback to their milestone assessments so they know what they need to do to improve.
- To maintain appropriate paper based and electronic records on the School Information Management System (SIMS).
- To track student progress and use information to inform teaching and learning and the curriculum.
Teaching and learning
- To consistently deliver high quality teaching and learning experiences that lead to high levels of progress, learner interest and enjoyment.
Communication
- To ensure effective communication with parents of students.
Marketing and liaison
- To contribute to marketing activities and help to promote the federation of schools.
Pastoral system
- To register students in a tutor group, encourage their full attendance and their full participation in all aspects of school life.
- To monitor attendance, achievement and behaviour and support its development for students in a tutor group.
- To deliver PSHEE during tutor time.
- To communicate with parents and people concerned with the welfare of students.
Safeguarding and equal opportunities
- To promote and safeguard the welfare of children and young persons you are responsible for or come into contact with.
- To be aware of and comply with policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to an appropriate person.
- To be aware of, support and ensure equal opportunities for all.
- To contribute to the overall ethos, work and aims of the school
Additional duties
- To play a full part in the life of the school community, to support its vision, mission and ethos and to encourage staff and students to follow this example.
- To undertake any other duty as specified in the STRB not mentioned above.
- Every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post, each individual task undertaken may not be identified.
This job description is current at the date shown below, but in consultation with you, may be changed by the Headteacher to reflect changes to job or school priorities, commensurate with the grade and job title.
Person Specification
Essential
Desirable, but not essential
Qualifications
Graduate in a relevant subject.
Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
Good honours graduate.
Experience
Successful experience of teaching Core PE and delivering PE enrichment activities.
Successful experience of teaching GCSE Physical Education or BTEC Sport.
Experience and knowledge of effective teaching and learning strategies.
Successful experience of teaching GCSE Physical Education and BTEC Sport.
Experience of securing high standards of attainment and learner achievement.
Skills
An excellent classroom practitioner or the ability to develop into one.
Effective communication skills both written and oral.
Ability to motivate, lead and inspire, students.
Ability to use IT as a teaching, learning and management tool.
Clarity of thought, the ability to analyse problems and find solutions.
Evidence that the vast majority of learners make outstanding progress in classes taught.
Personal qualities
A vision and the ability to innovate.
Commitment to a fully inclusive school.
Ability to cope with the duties and responsibilities of the post.
High levels of personal ambition, motivation and commitment.
Ability to demonstrate sound and balanced judgement, decisiveness and flexibility.
Enthusiastic and positive outlook.
Sense of humour.
What the school offers its staff
Executive Headteacher Welcome
Welcome to Codsall Community High School, part of South Staffordshire Learning Partnership.
The partnership currently consists of five local schools; two First Schools (Lane Green and St Chads), two Middle Schools (Perton and Bilbrook) and one High School (Codsall High).
Whilst a relatively new organisation we are built upon the principles established over a number of years by myself and senior staff.
Simply put, our goal is to provide the very best educational journey possible for the children of the community which we serve. We do this through ensuring that our staff feel valued and part of a wider family, through investing in the ongoing professional development of all staff, through simplifying and implementing successful teaching and learning strategies, through understanding that teaching is the most valuable job anyone can have because we change lives.
Please take time to visit our schools and see what we are about. I'm confident that you will like what you see and be keen to be part of our exciting journey.
Regards
Alun Harding
Executive Headteacher
Headteacher Welcome
Thank you for your interest in this role and working with South Staffordshire Learning Partnership at Codsall Community High School. We hope that this recruitment pack provides you with the information that you need to pursue your application.
The success of any organisation and that of its employees depends very largely on the employees themselves, and I am privileged to work with wonderful colleagues to provide the very best education possible to our students.
As an employer we understand that working in education can be challenging, we aim to support staff through initiatives such as Workload Risk Assessment when introducing a new initiative, Wellbeing Days and ‘Star of the Week’. The role of the leadership team is to create the right climate and empower staff to deliver outstanding learning.
Codsall Community High School has a long tradition of success and we work hard to provide the very best academic and vocational provision, enabling our students to be confident and successful as they transition into adult life. Relationships between staff and students at the school are incredibly strong and you will feel a genuine warmth when joining our team. Our school vison of Ambition, Altruism and Achievement is at the heart of all we do.
I very much look forward to meeting you and having the chance to show you around our school.
Kind regards
Simon Maxfield
Headteacher
Our Beliefs – Culture and Benefits
- Our goal is to strip away the unnecessary and focus on the important stuff – making our schools the best possible environments for our young people.
- There is no expectation or belief that getting to school early or staying late is the only way of showing you’re working hard. All staff should work in a way that suits them, making sure that they have time for themselves and their loved ones.
- No lesson observation gradings, no showcase lessons, no tick sheet approach – we focus on a culture of typicality and will always work at developing a positive and inclusive culture of support and challenge.
- No expectations to answer emails out of school working hours.
- Open door senior leadership across the organisation – no issue is ever too small to discuss if it’s important to you.
- A strong focus on mental health and wellbeing – staff with responsibility for ensuring that there are resources and signposting for any staff that need support.
- In house leadership development programmes as well as access to various NPQ courses.
- SSLP Star of the Term – each term headteachers and SLT will be asked to nominate staff for this award. The winning member of staff will be presented with a £50 voucher for a local restaurant / pub.
- Every member of staff in each school is entitled to 2 x wellbeing half days. These can be requested in advance and can be for any reason.
Our Beliefs - Workload
- No need or expectation to write or rewrite lesson plans in a particular format.
- An assessment and marking policy which significantly reduces workload by moving from “marking” culture to an effective assessment culture.
- A goal of ensuring that there is no more than one cover lesson per half term, less if possible.
- Data will never be asked for twice in different contexts.
- A maximum of 3 data collection points per year group.
- If a new policy or practice is introduced we will strive to take away something old, ensuring that we review everything we do annually.
- Consultation on key policies which include workload assessments.
Commitment to safeguarding
"This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment". This position is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure check under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Further details regarding this check are available from schools or by visiting www.crb.gov.uk”
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to jobs@sslp.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Codsall Community High School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 13 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1070 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 13 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Codsall Community High School website
- Email address
- jobs@sslp.uk
Codsall Community High School is a vibrant, exciting and dynamic learning environment which embodies the value we place on working with our students to achieve the very best outcomes for each and every one.
We are very proud of our focus on staff and student wellbeing; driven in our aims and ambitions to build on our success in a supportive and friendly environment.
The health and wellbeing of our staff is a priority; with an open-door senior leadership policy, a comprehensive new staff / NQT support programme, celebration of staff who go the extra mile and in-house pathways programmes for aspiring future leaders.
We are a high achieving school, providing education to students from years 9 to 13, with our results placing us amongst the highest performing state schools in the country. Through our committed staff, dedicated Governors and supportive parents, we continue to flourish.
Arranging a visit to Codsall Community High School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jobs@sslp.uk.
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