Director of Learning – Physical Education Birmingham, England
Job description
Waverley School
Yardley Green Road
Bordesley Green
Birmingham
B9 5QA
Telephone number: 0121 566 6607
Email address: [email protected]
Required 1 January 2024
Waverley Education Foundation (WEF) is a Multi Academy Trust, which operates both Waverley School and Waverley Studio College. WEF has over 1900 students on roll across the trust. It develops, brokers, and delivers a range of services which support learning and leadership and management and improve outcomes for children and young people.
Waverley School is an all through school for students aged 4 to 19. It also has a Resource Base for students with cognition and learning difficulties. In its recent Ofsted inspection in September 2021, Waverley School was graded as a ‘Good’ School. The secondary phase of Waverley School has 1174 students including those in the Sixth Form. We have state of the art facilities for learning, teaching, and training and a strong staff team that are committed to the learning and development of all our students.
Our core values of Humanity, Equality, Aspiration and Respect support our vision to create a learning community where we work together to achieve excellence in everything we do.
“Pupils have a strong understanding of diversity, respect and tolerance, including for different family lifestyles” – Ofsted 2021
We are now looking to appoint a new Director of Learning for PE. Our PE department has a blend of experienced and recently qualified teachers, and we are looking for a new leader to come in and steer the direction of our sports provision across KS3, KS4 and KS5.
We believe that this role will appeal to ambitious, talented teachers and leaders who can bring inspirational leadership to our Middle Leadership Team and contribute towards the school improvement process.
We are looking for someone who will:
- promote and deliver excellent standards of teaching and learning
- is a strategic thinker and will lead to department from good to great
- foster positive relationships with students, staff, parents and the local community
It is a very exciting time to join Waverley School and applications are invited from those who are committed to wanting the best for children and are ambitious to develop their careers as teachers and leaders.
You will need to provide evidence of an outstanding 'track record' to date and clearly demonstrate how you meet the demands of the job description. You will need to be highly motivated and passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people, with the ability to inspire and motivate staff and students.
The successful candidate will need to meet the requirements of the person specification in order to be offered the post.
We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or religion. Only applications submitted on the school application form will be accepted.
Please apply online
We welcome informal visits to the school where tours will be undertaken by a senior member of staff.
For further details or to arrange an informal visit please call our HR team on 0121 566 6607.
Completed applications should be sent to: [email protected]
Applications received after the closing date and time will not be considered. If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
