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Director of Sport

Job details
Posting date: 12 September 2024
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 23 September 2024
Location: London, SE3 0XX
Company: Teaching Vacancies
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 36255750-cc64-41ca-bcf9-d1a58b74a8b4

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Summary

What skills and experience we're looking for

• Do you have a real passion and desire to enthuse pupils with your own love of Sport and Physical Education?

Are you a talented and ambitious teacher keen to develop your coaching and leadership skills?

Are you interested in driving SMA to becoming a Centre of Excellence?

If yes, then we would like to offer you the opportunity to work with us here at St Matthew Academy, a high performing Catholic school where pupils flourish both academically and socially.

We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and ambitious Teacher of PE to join our all-through academy for pupils aged 4-16. This role encompasses both the primary and secondary phase. Our Director of Sport will, together with the talent that already exists at SMA create and drive us as a centre of excellence. Developing new partnerships as well as maintaining current partnerships with Old Colfeian’s Rugby Club and Greenwich Titans Basketball Club.Our Director of Sport will improve the profile of sport both in and outside of SMA.

In October 2019, Ofsted confirmed SMA as a good school where all pupils, through their hard work and commitment, are able to ‘let their light shine’. In Feb 2023, our CSI inspection stated‘The behaviour of pupils is exemplary in lessons and around the school, and strong and positive relationships are evident throughout the school.’We are proud that our pupils are able to learn in a disruption free environment resulting in strong progress for all. We are now pursuing our mission to embed ourselves as a truly great school at the heart of the community we serve.

The successful candidate will be:

-Passionate about enabling every child to exceed expectations

-An enthusiastic and successful teacher

-Committed to ensuring high expectations for pupils, staff and themselves

-Well organised, an excellent communicator and keen to take an active role in academy life

-An active promoter of our Catholic ethos

-Fully supportive of and drive the Academy’s aim to ensure equity and diversity permeates throughout the Academy

St Matthew Academy is a diverse, vibrant Catholic all-through academy for girls and boys aged 4 to 16, where there are high expectations for everyone in our community.At St Matthew Academy our school motto is ‘let your light shine’ and we ensure that we live this vision every day at the academy by encouraging, promoting and celebrating success with all of our pupils in everything that they do. Our academy is situated between Blackheath and Lewisham in South East London, benefiting from excellent public transport and road links to all parts of London and Kent. Our magnificent buildings offer state of the art resources and the latest technology. Our primary and secondary phases are situated on one site allowing a truly unique all through setting with opportunities for transition, collegiate working and subject development.

What the school offers its staff

We offer:

• Fantastic pupils with enormous potential.
• Staff who are supportive to each other and enjoy working collaboratively.
• Personalised programme of professional development and coaching for all staff including a highly rated IMPACT programme for Newly Qualified Teachers.
• A modern building, in a delightful setting and excellent resources.
• Excellent public transport and road links across London and Kent.
• Fully equipped gym and fitness suite, Season Ticket Loan, Cycle-to-work scheme, Tech Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme.
• A strong commitment to staff well-being.

We value the importance of diversity in our community and the significance of having staff that are representative of the children we teach. We particularly welcome applications from black and minority ethnic candidates as these groups are currently underrepresented within the Academy.

Our school motto is ‘let your light shine’ and we ensure that we live this vision every day.

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.

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