Director of Learning – Physical Education

Director of Learning – Physical Education Birmingham, England

Birmingham City Council
Full Time Birmingham, England 50122 - 55360 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

Salary range
L6 to L10 (£50,122 to £55,360)
Closing Date
3 July 2023, 10:00am
Occupation
Education - teaching
Full / Part time
Full time
Contract Type
Permanent
Enhanced DBS Check Required
Yes
Job Information

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.

How to apply

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.

Safeguarding
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including:
Teaching
enhanced DBS; Prohibition check; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.
References
All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.
Short-listed candidates
An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.
Terms and conditions
This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.
Rehabilitation of offenders
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.
This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.
Further information
Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.

Director of Learning – Physical Education
Birmingham City Council

www.birmingham.gov.uk
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Mark Rogers
$2 to $5 billion (USD)
1001 to 5000 Employees
Government
National Services & Agencies
1935
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