Role Description

St Peter’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment by always complying with the school’s Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy and Procedures. The successful applicant will be required to undergo statutory pre-employment checks, including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Overall purpose of the post:

We are seeking to appoint an outstanding teacher of PE as maternity cover to join our committed, motivated and successful sports department at St Peter's. The successful candidate will covering Assistant Director of Sport 2-8 and will mainly be teaching Year 6 and below. This is a maternity cover role, to commence June 2025 for up to one year, or upon the return of the post holder, whichever is sooner.

The successful candidate should be highly motivated and have a passion to drive and develop all pupils through creating a caring and nurturing teaching environment ensuring pupils are creating a life long love for sport from an early age.

Assistant Director of Sport 2-8 Job Description

Management and Leadership

· Leadership, oversight and of delivery of PE and Curriculum Games programme within 2-8, in conjunction with the Director of Sport.

· Assist the Director of Sport in developing a co-educational Sport provision and to ensure the needs of boys and girls sport are fully met in terms of staffing, facilities, fixtures, profile etc.

· To help develop and model a strong collegiate, collaborative and reflective culture amongst department staff, with the pupil at its heart.

· To promote learning and teaching amongst colleagues in the department.

· To support the Director of Sport in the implementation of a clear and ambitious strategic plan, aligned with whole-school objectives, ensuring that the PE and Games department is achieving at the highest level.

· To support the Director of Sport in the line management of the PE and Games staff as well as the Sports Technician.

· To support Sports Graduates, Early-Career Teachers and Probationers in the department in the first years of their career and offer help and support. Some staff may already have a mentor.

· Leading on provision of broader sporting options outside the Games programme for these year groups in co-curricular time.

· Liaising and working closely with other Assistant Directors of Sport to ensure consistency and development in the sporting offer as pupils progress through the age ranges. Evaluating this offer and identifying areas for the training needs of staff as well as any alterations that are required to the offering.

· To be a visible ‘front-of-house’ and involved presence for pupils, parents and other key stakeholders.

· To work with the Director of Sport to create a varied curriculum PE program that flows between year groups.

Staffing

· To ensure the 2-8 Games programme is appropriately staffed and to challenge, where needed.

· To ensure there are appropriate staff at Year 3 work shops.

· To help develop and promote the highest standards of teaching and learning and be able to monitor and evaluate our success in this area.

· To help monitor the workload of Sports Graduates and to raise issues on their behalf as needed.

Pupils

· To meet with and to integrate new pupils into team sports and/or wider physical activity where appropriate.

· To have oversight of pupil numbers doing different sport and activities, monitoring trends and raising concerns as required.

Administration and communication

· To be a port of call for parents in relation to PE and Games at 2-8.

· To be a key presence at open mornings or any other important whole-school events when sport needs promoting.

· Helping collate information for the newsletter and assembly’s.

· To ensure the school’s social media coverage is balanced covering a range of ages, sports and that both boys’ and girls’ sport are given equal coverage

· Working closely with the Deputy Head Co-Curricular and Director of Sport to support the after-school sport clubs that the PE department run at 2-8 where required.

· To help organise and run major house sporting competitions.

Fixtures

· To support an extensive fixtures programme which creates opportunities for all but is in line with the school’s vision and budgets for sport.

· To ensure the range of appropriate workshops are available for U8s

· Overseeing the participation of all pupils in workshops.

General requirements of the post

· To teach lessons in accordance with the academic timetable as well as to assist with the teaching of Games and clubs as and where needed across all 3 sections of the school.

· To attend staff meetings, assemblies, whole school events, training days, parents’ evenings

· To insist upon high levels of behaviour and respect for others

· To help create and then adhere to and maintain School Policies. Risk assessments and Procedures for the PE Department.

· To adhere to and maintain any wider School Policies and Procedures.

· To take responsibility for safeguarding the pupils

· To uphold the values that underpins the life of the School community

· To apply the necessary health and safety procedures when appropriate, raising issue with the Director of Sport in line with school policy.

· To carry out other associated duties as are reasonably assigned by the Head Master

General

1. Health & Safety - You have a legal duty to take reasonable care of your own health and safety and that of others and you are expected to be familiar with, and adhere to, St Peter’s School’s Health and Safety policy.

2. School values – You have a duty to ensure your work, communication and approach conforms to the school’s core values and mission. You will need to be aware and comply with school rules, policies and procedures at all times including, but not limited to, those relating to safeguarding, conduct, equality and data protection.

St Peter's School strives to be diverse and inclusive. We encourage applications from people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, who are underrepresented at the school. The school is committed to providing equal opportunity to all employees and pupils. This means that employees are treated fairly, irrespective of sexual orientation, ethnic origin, religion, disability, age, gender, marital status or other reason. The post holder is expected to always comply with the provisions set out in law and the St Peter's policies on equality and diversity. The school is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit.

Note: This job description is not intended to be a comprehensive list of duties and responsibilities associated with the post. The post holder will be expected to comply with any reasonable request to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in this job description. This job description may be amended at any time.