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Teacher of Boys’ PE

Job details
Posting date: 05 October 2024
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 11 October 2024
Location: Twickenham, TW1 3BB
Company: Teaching Vacancies
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: cfc6c193-a984-4b05-95cf-46d9b6bce403

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Summary

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are looking for a dynamic and talented Teacher of Boys’ PE to join a thriving and highly successful department. The successful candidate should have broad-based subject knowledge in order to teach PE at Key Stages 3, 4 and 5 and be an ambitious person with high expectations for yourself and your students. We offer a very extensive extra-curricular sports programme and manage a number of teams in numerous activities, competing at borough, regional and national levels. The successful applicant would be expected to make a significant contribution to these.

We welcome applications from newly qualified or experienced teachers. Expertise in Football and/or Rugby would be an advantage but not essential, and experience teaching theoretical content is desirable. A full and clean driving licence is required.

The successful candidate will:

• Be able to develop, plan and deliver effective and high-quality learning experiences to all students
• Be a newly qualified or experienced teacher who is enthusiastic, influential and committed to working in pursuit of success for the academy and its learners

What the school offers its staff

Orleans Park is a successful and oversubscribed 11–18 mixed comprehensive that serves its local community in Twickenham with over 1,350 students. The dedicated staff work hard to ensure students are successful and leave as responsible citizens and confident individuals.

What Orleans Park has to offer:

Please see our recruitment video on the Vacancies page of our website: https://www.orleanspark.school/contact-us/vacancies/why-work-at-orleans

Further details about the role

Orleans Park is committed to continuing to make diversity, equity, and inclusion part of everything we do – from how we educate our students to how we support our staff. Ensuring that we are always recruiting, retaining and promoting a diverse mix of colleagues who are representative of the diversity in our local communities gives us a great opportunity to have access to a broad range of ideas and allows us to provide an outstanding education to our young people and an outstanding place for people to work.

In line with the statutory guidance document Keeping Children Safe in Education (2024), the school will conduct online searches after the shortlisting process for any candidates who accept an invitation to interview. The appointment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including references, medical clearance and an enhanced DBS Disclosure. Orleans Park is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are an equal opportunities employer.

Commitment to safeguarding

The governors and staff of Orleans Park fully recognise the contribution they make to safeguarding children. We recognise that all staff, including volunteers, have a full and active part to play in protecting our students from harm. All staff and governors believe our school is a place where students feel secure, are encouraged to talk, are listened to and are safe. We shall provide a caring, positive, safe and stimulating environment that promotes the social, physical and moral development of the individual child.

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