Job overview
Required for September 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter
Fixed term 1 year contract in the first instance
26 hours per week, 38 weeks per year (Term time)
9:30am – 4:30pm, Monday to Thursday
Orleans Park is a successful and oversubscribed 11-18 mixed comprehensive that serves its local community in Twickenham with over 1,350 students. The dedicated staff work hard to ensure students are successful and leave as responsible citizens and confident individuals.
We are looking to appoint a reliable team player that preferably holds recognised sports qualifications, who will be responsible for supporting our PE department in the delivery of the subject. This will include full administrative and practical support. The ideal candidate will be able to assist in lessons and will be required to work after school to support extra-curricular activities/fixtures. Knowledge of sports terminology and various activities is desirable. A full and clean driving licence is required.
Applications are shortlisted for interview as they are received so early application is encouraged and we reserve the right to commence the interview process and close the vacancy prior to this date.
Closing date for applications: 10am on Wednesday 17 September 2025
Orleans Park is committed to continuing to make diversity, equity, and inclusion part of everything we do. Ensuring that we are always recruiting, retaining and promoting a diverse mix of colleagues who are representative of the diversity in our local communities gives us a great opportunity to have access to a broad range of ideas and allows us to provide an outstanding education to our young people and an outstanding place for people to work.
In line with the statutory guidance document Keeping Children Safe in Education (2024) the school will conduct online searches after the shortlisting process for any candidates who accept an invitation to interview. The appointment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including references, medical clearance and an enhanced DBS Disclosure. Orleans Park is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are an equal opportunities employer.
About Orleans Park School
Orleans Park School
Richmond Road
Twickenham
TW1 3BB
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 20 8891 0187
What Orleans Park has to offer
* a commitment to the professional development of all its staff to become outstanding teachers and leaders
* regular CPD sessions
* Sixth Form in dedicated buildings and facilities
* employee assistance programme – supporting staff wellbeing
* situated on a 16-acre site close to the River Thames and the centre of Twickenham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. The borough is home to the attractions of Richmond Park, Kew Gardens, Hampton Court Palace and Twickenham Stadium.
* easy access to central London and excellent transport links for bus, train, Underground and Overground services
* close to the M3/M4/M25 with staff parking on site
* staff travel card loans
* Cyclescheme
Here’s what Ofsted have to say
In November 2023, Ofsted recognised that Orleans Park continues to be an outstanding school. They said "Pupils thrive at this school. They are happy, safe and achieve very well" and that the school has "a broad and ambitious curriculum for all pupils". "Pupils build very respectful, working relationships with each other and with staff. Pupils learn to be responsible and reflect on their own actions. This results in very positive behaviour and exemplary attitudes to learning".
Core Values
At Orleans Park the wellbeing, progress and achievement of every student are at the heart of everything we do.
We pride ourselves on being a happy and vibrant place to learn. We firmly believe that students achieve when they feel the genuine security of a community that supports learning and promotes social responsibility. To support students to be the best they can be, our core values are:
* Responsibility
* Resilience
* Respect
The Orleans Park values are embedded in our vision. A value is a principle that guides our thinking and our behaviour. We believe that these values are as important within the school community as they are throughout life.
Through our school values we aim to:
* Improve behaviour, conduct and confidence by developing strong values within the students at our school
* Promote the key attributes needed to excel in all aspects of life both inside and outside of Orleans Park
* Display the standards of conduct we expect of ourselves and each other to ensure our community thrives
* To raise standards by promoting a school vision that is underpinned by our core values, supporting the development of the student as a reflective learner within a calm, caring, happy and purposeful atmosphere
Our school values ensure our students leave Orleans Park successful, confident responsible citizens.
Where to find us
Close to central Twickenham, we are well served by local transport with several bus routes stopping right outside the school gates and train and tube stations nearby. St. Margarets and Twickenham Train Stations are both within easy walking distance for South Western Railway services and Richmond Station is one mile away for District Line Underground and Overground Services and South Western Railway.
www.orleanspark.school
We look forward to receiving your application.
Kathy Pacey
Headteacher
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