PE Technician
Location: Leicester, city centre.
Closing Date: 6th May 2024, 9.00am
Interviews: May 2024
Position Start Date: 27th August 2024
Salary: LG Band 3, Points 5 – 6 £20,235 - £20,574 (Pro Rata) £23,693 - £24,090 (FTE)
Opportunity for dedicated and enthusiastic person to join the team at Castle Mead Academy, as part of The Mead Educational Trust.
In August 2019, Castle Mead Academy, a non-selective secondary school, opened its doors and welcomed our first year 7 cohort. Since then, we have never looked back! We are now fully-grown, with over 1200 scholars as part of our school, going about their learning each and every day. Building on the success of Rushey Mead Academy, Castle Mead is making available in the heart of Leicester a standard of education matching the very best schools in the country so that every scholar leaves us with high value academic qualifications and wider positive dispositions to enable them to lead fulfilling lives.
We are recruiting a dedicated and enthusiastic person to support our PE department and provide PE cover at an enhanced rate of pay.
This is an exciting opportunity for a person who is:
• Passionate about sport and ensuring young people live healthy and active lives;
• A positive role model for our scholars;
• Wanting to advance their skills and grow their career with the academy;
• Going to thrive in the vibrant surroundings of our two-tier sports hall with dance studio;
• We moved into a new £37m building, on the picturesque riverside, in August 2021!
This is a unique opportunity to work in a school where:
• our scholars are talented in a range of sports, competing in fixtures across the county;
• there is a calm orderly environment with rigorous routines so as teachers can teach without interruption;
• we challenge convention, distribute leadership and consistently consider staff workload;
• the staff team are relentless in their ambition on behalf of pupils and colleagues;
• there is a growing reputation of Castle Mead providing excellence in the heart of Leicester.
Please submit your application by 6th May 2024. For further information, a confidential discussion, to book a visit to Castle Mead Academy or any technical queries please contact Tom Hague, Principal, by email or telephone.
We reserve the right to appoint earlier than the closing date for this post, should a suitable candidate be recruited.
Castle Mead Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.
This post will involve contact with vulnerable groups (children, young people and/or adults) and is therefore, exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Disclosure check. This exemption means that shortlisted applicants for this post will be required to declare all criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands, and bind- overs both spent and unspent in their application, before interview and regardless of the passage of time.