Join the “UK’s Comprehensive School of the Year”
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a high performing, friendly and inclusive school with a unique, exciting curriculum, and a very strong international ethos as one of the country’s leading state IB schools. Due to the continued expansion of our sports scholarships in our outstanding sixth form, we are looking to recruit a passionate and exceptional Teacher of Girls’ PE, to join our dynamic and high performing Sport department. The ability to support our netball scholarship, or to deliver KS5 BTEC Sport or Sports Science, would be a significant advantage.
We are very lucky to have an on-site Sports Centre with excellent facilities, including a full-size indoor swimming pool, and a large expanse of outdoor sports pitches and green spaces, as well as plans for a 3G pitch.
At IVC we offer our staff:
- 20% non-contact time as standard (the equivalent of one day per week), with generous further reductions in non-contact for leaders and early career teachers
- Interventions, revision sessions and enrichment timetabled as part of your weekly teaching load
- A genuinely flexible approach to timetabling, including the possibility to work from home and late starts/early finishes to suit you and your family
- Weekly timetabled CPD with your department, avoiding unnecessary twilight sessions and protected from cover, and the chance to work collaboratively in a friendly and dynamic environment
- Priority within our admissions policy, to ensure that the children of staff are able to attend IVC
- Reduced duties to ensure that staff get breaks during the day, with tea and freshly brewed coffee provided daily
- An annual paid family day, as well as the possibility to arrange term-time leave by negotiation
- A very generous CPD budget, with a commitment to supporting further study and leadership development
- Countless opportunities for progression both within the school and the wider Trust
- Leaders who are supportive and approachable, who focus on finding solutions and enabling staff to thrive in order to help our students achieve their best
- An on-site gym, swimming pool and sports centre with a substantial staff discount and the chance to use facilities during the College day
The Sport faculty at IVC is a central part of the College and uptake at both KS4 and KS5 is very high, with very strong outcomes. The successful candidate, depending on their interest or specialism, will have the opportunity to teach across three different courses at KS4, including GCSE PE, BTEC Sport and OCR Sport Science, and BTEC Sport and IB Sport Science at KS5 in addition to our exciting core PE curriculum. We also have a thriving scholarship programme in our sixth form for Football, Rugby, Netball, Handball and Rowing. As part of our sports scholarships, students benefit from expert coaching and bespoke training sessions, as well as the chance to compete at an elite level.
You will be joining an innovative, collaborative and dynamic faculty where staff are highly committed to professional development and sporting excellence, engaging with the latest pedagogical research and to developing students’ passions for sport and physical wellbeing. There will be numerous opportunities to continue developing your teaching practice, through connections a range of in-house and external CPD programmes. You will be well supported in the faculty by a number of highly experienced colleagues, and have the chance to lead extra-curricular activities based on your own sporting interests, and join a range of overseas trips and sports tours, including a thriving ski trip.
Impington also benefits from being part of the Eastern Learning Alliance (ELA). ELA offer a sector leading staff benefits package alongside bespoke, high quality CPD programmes, cross-trust events, and exceptional opportunities for career development within our innovative family of schools. This includes healthcare, car, mobile phone and laptop payment plans, access to private GP services, physiotherapy and mental health support, discounts and access to ticket ballots for high profile events.
We are holding an Open Morning on Friday 24th January from 8-9.30am.
This will provide a chance for you to meet members of the senior leadership team, teaching staff and have a short tour of the College. We would encourage any prospective applicants to come along, or to arrange an alternative time for a visit please contact .
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