Teacher of PE
Salary: £32,916 to £51,047
Range: Main Pay Range or Upper Pay Range
Start Date: 1st January 2025
Contract Type: Full Time
Contract Term: Permanent
Suitable for ECT: Yes
Closing Date: Monday 13th October 2025 – 12 noon (midday)
Interview Date: Friday 17th October 2025
Wilmslow High School
School age range: 11-18
Number on roll: approx. 2,000 (including 500 sixth form)
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and energetic Teacher of PE to join our thriving and highly regarded PE Team. Applications are encouraged from both early career or experienced teachers who are committed to teaching at the highest standard and raising the aspirations and achievements of our students.
The Physical Education Team has a strong record of performance and a commitment to subject expertise and excellence. The role will require you to teach Physical Education to both core and examination groups at Key Stage 3, 4, and 5. The successful candidate will also be expected to make a substantial and regular contribution to our thriving extra curriculum programme.
This is an excellent opportunity to work with an exceptional team who have a well-structured curriculum, comprehensive resources and work collaboratively with the shared aim of creating the best learning opportunities for all. The team is highly professional, supportive of each other and place great importance on teamwork.
The successful candidate will:
•Have a high degree of subject competency and personal organisation with a continuing personal interest in, and commitment Physical Education.
•Demonstrate a real passion for education and a deep-felt desire to make a difference for young people.
•Have the resolve and tenacity to make a real difference to the performance of students.
•Demonstrate rigorous professionalism in everything, accepting nothing but the best in a culture of excellence.
•Have a willingness to embrace and promote the importance of all the humanities and social sciences across all key stages.
•Be able to work with a team who are passionate about reaching all students with empathy and understanding.
If you would like to join a forward-thinking, research-driven school and you have the skills and tenacity to really make a difference for young people, we would welcome your application.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to respect this commitment. A consideration of the person’s suitability to work alongside children is part of the selection process.
If invited for interview, you will be:
•asked to complete a self-declaration form answering questions in relation to any criminal record or other information that would make them unsuitable to work with children.
•subject to an online search. This is to help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which we may wish to explore at interview.
If successful, you will be subject to:
•an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
•pre-employment checks which will include References, Health, Right to Work in UK, DBS and a Declaration that neither they nor anyone who lives in the same household is a disqualified person under the Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations 2009.
Current or previous employers will be contacted and information requested will include:
•disciplinary offences relating to children, including any for which the penalty is ‘time expired’.
•whether the applicant has been the subject of any child protection concerns.