Teacher of PE (Girls)

Contract type: Full Time, Permanent

Location: The Kingsway School

Required from: September 2024 (or Easter 2024 if possible)

Salary: MPS/UPS (A TLR may also be available for candidates with the right experience)

Closing date: 12pm on 6th February 2024

Interview date: W.C: 19th February 2024

Details of the Role

Thank you for taking an interest in a teaching position at The Kingsway School. Our school is one with an exciting future ahead of it and we are looking for committed and inspirational individuals to join us as we embark on a renewed journey of success. The leadership team are committed to building a place that our staff and students are proud of and a special place where we each feel we are a valued member of a community.  

The prime responsibility of the post of a Kingsway teacher is to provide high quality teaching and learning and to ensure every student’s potential is maximised. Innovation and vision are required to strengthen and enhance the school’s curriculum implementation via the lens of a subject discipline, which in turn will create ambitious academic outcomes for our comprehensive student body. Our best teachers are committed, self-reflective, kind, community spirited and undertake their duties with attention to detail and consistently high standards. 

Please read our comprehensive recruitment pack to discover more about our school and about our Physical Education Department.

Our pack includes details about:

• Our curriculum vision
• Our unique middle school and upper school model
• Our staff wellbeing charter
• Our bespoke ECT training program
• Our enhanced professional development opportunities
• Testimonials from current staff

We welcome applications from both ECTs and experienced teachers.  

About ELT

Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 450 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities. 

As a Trust employee you will receive excellent benefits, including a highly competitive salary, well-regarded pension scheme, excellent career development opportunities and support for your health and wellbeing, with our award-winning employee assistance programme.

Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:

• Exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
• School improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry
• Opportunities for professional development and leadership
• A celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings 
• Innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. 

We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.

All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks.  It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, including valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. 

We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.

We expect the successful candidate to have the necessary standard of spoken English, as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).

Candidates should apply by completing the ELT application form, CVs alone will not be accepted in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).

Please return applications to recruitment@kingsway.stockport.sch.uk for the attention of Rachel Faux HR and Administration Officer. 

If you would value an informal discussion about the post, please contact in the first instance: r.hulme@kingsway.stockport.sch.uk (Head of Department)