Teacher of Girls PE (ECTs welcome to apply)
Ridgeway Academy, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 2AF39 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2025
Closing date
22 April 2025 at 9am
Date listed
13 March 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Physical Education (PE)
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- MPS/UPS
Teacher of Girls PE (ECTs welcome to apply) job summary
Teacher of Girls PE (ECTs welcome to apply)
Pay spine: MPS/UPS
Start date: September 2025
Ridgeway Academy boasts excellent sports facilities, including a sports hall with junkers sprung flooring suitable for four badminton courts. There is also a floodlit all-weather pitch measuring 91.3x53.8 meters, extensive playing fields with multiple football and rugby pitches, a cricket square, and a full-size athletics track. The gymnasium and changing rooms have been refurbished, and there are two air-conditioned dance studios, a health and fitness suite, two classrooms for exams, three tennis courts, and two halls suitable for badminton and volleyball.
As a vibrant community school, the existing PE facilities are utilized daily by our primary feeder schools, the local community, and various community groups.
Ridgeway Academy is part of the Ambition Education Trust (AET). The Ambition Education Trust (AET) consists of ten schools in Hertfordshire; three primary, one nursery and infants’, one juniors and five secondary. Our Trust launched in September 2024 following the amalgamation of two established Multi Academy Trusts (MATs), Alban Academies Trust and Atlas Multi Academy Trust. As a member of the AET, we are able to maximise opportunities for rewarding careers and opportunities for personal and professional development throughout our wider organization.
Continued professional development is key to the success in the classroom, and we encourage staff to take part in training within our Trust training hub, and also as part of the National Professional Qualifications. The department has a variety of experience, and all members of the team benefit from relevant training, mentoring or coaching.
We can offer you:
A collaborative, supportive team with a passion for teaching and facilitating progress
Enthusiastic students who are keen to progress
Appropriate professional development
We are looking for someone who:
Has a track record of outstanding teaching and learning and excellent subject knowledge
Passionate Teacher who puts student progress and engagement at the heart of all they do
Be inspiring and dynamic
Can share and deliver in the vision to be outstanding
Is willing to learn and help evolve the good practices already in place
Ridgeway Academy is committed to ensuring inclusion, diversity and equality of opportunity. We welcome applications from all suitable candidates and encourage those from underrepresented groups, and/or with protected characteristics, to apply. Ridgeway Academy is committed to safeguarding children and young people. All post holders are subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, satisfactory references and medical clearance.
To apply, please submit a completed application via mynewterm https://www.mynewterm.com/ or see school website www.ridgeway.herts.sch.uk if you have an issue completing the application form via mynewterm please contact the HR Officer by email (appointments@ridgeway.aetrust.uk) or extension 3373
Prospective candidates are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible as the school reserves the right to close the advert should we feel able to appoint an appropriate candidate.
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 school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Ridgeway Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 947 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Ridgeway Academy website
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