Teacher of Physical Education - Highdown School
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre, Reading, Berkshire, RG4 8LRThis job expired on 11 June 2023 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2023
Closing date
11 June 2023 at 11:59pm
Date listed
11 May 2023
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
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- Full Time - 1,0 FTE - part time will be considered
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £28,000 - £38,810 Per Year
What skills and experience we're looking for
Full time/Part time - Required for September 2023
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is a very popular, oversubscribed and successful school set in 30 acres of parkland in Caversham to the north of Reading.
This is an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic and well qualified teacher of Physical Education to join a successful department with excellent resources and facilities. A willingness to teach across all years and abilities is essential.
We welcome applications from ECTs, for whom we have a superb induction programme.
The successful candidate should be a highly motivated and successful practitioner who is willing to contribute to all aspects of the school vision and the many extra curricular activities that the department offers. The school benefits from great PE facilities.
Why Highdown School?
• We are a Good School with many outstanding features. We are committed to staff professional learning and leadership development for all staff, at all levels
• We provide highly regarded ECT induction and Coaching for Excellence programmes
• We have adopted a ‘Fair Workload Charter’
• Staff benefit from being members of the PiXL Club and the Princes Teaching Institute
• Staff have subsidised access to Highdown Sport and Leisure facilities
What the school offers its staff
Closing date : Applications considered on receipt
For details and an application form visit our website www.highdown.reading.sch.uk.
Please contact Miss Nicci Burns, Headteacher’s PA, by email hnb@highdown.reading.sch.uk or call 0118 901 5800 for more information.
Highdown School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.
We are also trained in safer recruitment and the successful applicant will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and a Prohibition from Teaching check.
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.
About Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
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- School size
- 1575 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- Email address
- hnb@highdown.reading.sch.uk
Highdown was awarded academy status in 2010 and was judged to be a good school by Ofsted in April 2015.
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is a thriving school where all students are challenged to reach excellence every day.
Our most important resource is our staff. Therefore, we aim to create the conditions and culture within the academy that make Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre a rewarding place to work. We are committed to investing in staff professional learning and leadership development, taking action to rationalise workload, promote mental and physical health and wellbeing, and encourage collaboration and peer support.
Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, teaching and support staff (including temporary and supply staff), governors and volunteers to share this commitment.
Arranging a visit to Highdown School and Sixth Form Centre
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email hnb@highdown.reading.sch.uk.
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