Head of PE/Sport
Woking College
Woking, Surrey
- Expired
- Salary:
- Up to £45,521 per annum, depending on experience, plus £1,081 fringe allowance
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 26 August 2021
- Apply by:
- 22 March 2021
Job overview
The Role
The College requires a full-time Head of A Level PE/Sport to oversee the leadership and management of the department within the College. We are looking for an inspiring and dynamic candidate, with a passion for sport to join the team within our rapidly expanding, highly successful Sixth Form College.
Applications from Teachers in Schools and Sixth Form College sectors are welcome. A full mentoring programme is organised to introduce all new staff to sixth form college systems and procedures and to support and encourage professional development. We are looking for an exceptional candidate. We expect high performance from all our staff and are looking for an impressive individual to inspire College students. Candidates should demonstrate their ability and suitability to both the role and the culture of the College.
The Department
The PE and Sport Department is a friendly and vibrant department who deliver on both A Level and Vocational qualifications to over 200 students. The College has a modern sports hall and gym providing excellent facilities for students. The facilities were further improved in 2020 with the addition of a new 3G pitch built on site. The department also has well-equipped IT facilities and first-class staff development opportunities.
We give students the opportunity to work alongside industry professionals and learn from their experiences and the department enjoys strong links with higher education establishments and companies alike. Learning is enriched through a variety of guest speakers and visits with the highlight being an annual sport and fitness training camp at Club La Santa in Lanzarote.
The department produce dedicated training programmes for elite sports students who compete at both county and national level. Students also have the opportunity to take part in a variety of regular sports fixtures with local Colleges along with weekly training sessions. The College is also affiliated to AoC Sport, giving both team and individual athletes the opportunity to compete at both regional and national levels.
Application Information:
Salary: Up to £45,521 per annum depending on experience, plus £1,081 fringe allowance.
Closing Date: 9am, Monday 22 March 2021
Interviews: to be held on Thursday 25 March 2021
Start date: 26 August 2021
To Apply: Please download the Application Pack and click the Apply Now button to access the Application Form (CVs will not be accepted on their own).
For further information or to return a completed Application Form, please contact:
Kirsty Crook, Personnel Officer: email: kcr@woking.ac.uk Woking College, Rydens Way, Woking, GU22 9DL. Website: www.woking.ac.uk
Important information:
The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointed staff will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks. The College is committed to equal opportunities.
The College encourages all candidates to be familiar with Section 1 of the DfE paper on “Keeping Children Safe in Education” September 2020 and the College's Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy. These documents can be found on the College's Staff Vacancies page, and Policies page.
In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) the College asks candidates to consider Woking College's Privacy Notice for Job Applicants, which can be found on the Staff Vacancies page of the College’s website.
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About Woking College
Woking College is an oversubscribed and highly successful college of over 1400 students drawing students from more than 60 different schools. Our very successful strategic focus has, for many years, been to create the very best environment for high quality of teaching and learning alongside the widest range of enrichment activities enhancing the cultural capital of our students. Alongside this we place a very strong emphasis on maintaining our wonderful community, we have a more diverse College population than might be thought of as typical for Surrey but we are determined to maintain our inclusive ethos. We are fully committed to innovation whilst maintaining a humane and caring approach for all members of the College community which has resulted in the doubling of the student population in recent years. These approaches have been key to securing Grade 1 ‘Outstanding’ in all seven categories in our October 2022 Ofsted inspection.
Woking College is enjoying record results, very positive value-added and an abundance of applications and quite rightly has a teaching and learning culture which is the envy of other institutions, indeed in recent staff surveys over 95% of College staff said they were proud to work at Woking College!
We have benefited hugely from an impressive transformation of the College’s estate over recent years, with the completion of a new Sports Centre in 2014, a new Arts Block in 2015 and a modern and larger Science Building in 2016. A full size 3G pitch was completed in 2020. A £3m teaching block and another £3m project working collaboratively with an adjacent community centre will enhance our estate even further within this academic year.
We recognise the advantages of collaboration and have worked hard over the years to build and maintain close working relationships with other education providers and the Local Authority. The College has been a long-standing member of S7, the Surrey and Sussex group of Sixth Form Colleges, possibly the leading college consortium nationally, and we look forward to continued positive engagement with schools, colleges and the local community for the benefit of all.
With strong leadership from our passionate and committed senior leadership team, and with the support of excellent teaching and support staff across all areas, we look forward to the continued evolution of the College; we also look forward to meeting committed, engaging and passionate people who want to join us to further enhance the life-chances and choices of our students – which is of course our main mission as educators.
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