Astrea Academy Sheffield
Sheffield
£33,235 - £52,064 per year
Salary:
* TLR 2D (£5,885)
Job type:
Full Time, Maternity Cover
Apply by:
5 October 2025
Job overview
Head of PE – Maternity Cover (1 Year)
Location: Astrea Academy Sheffield
Start Date: January 2026
Contract Type: Full-Time, Fixed-Term (1 Year)
Lead, Inspire, Energise
Are you passionate about physical education and ready to lead a thriving department? We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Head of PE to join our team on a 1-year maternity cover contract starting in January.
This is a fantastic opportunity to lead a dynamic PE department across Key Stage 3 and 4, promote healthy lifestyles, and inspire pupils to achieve their personal best—both in and out of the classroom.
What You'll Be Doing
Leading the PE department and overseeing curriculum planning, delivery, and assessment.
Organising extracurricular sports, fixtures, and enrichment activities.
Promoting physical wellbeing, teamwork, and resilience across the school.
Supporting staff development and ensuring high-quality teaching and learning.
Contributing to whole-school leadership and improvement.
What We're Looking For
Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and experience teaching PE across key stages.
Proven leadership or middle management experience (desirable).
A commitment to inclusive, engaging, and high-impact PE provision.
Excellent organisational and communication skills.
A passion for sport, health, and pupil development.
Why Join Us?
A supportive and collaborative school community.
Access to professional development and leadership training.
A chance to make a lasting impact on pupils' physical and emotional wellbeing.
Commitment to Safeguarding and EDI:
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All posts are subject to satisfactory background checks, including references and enhanced DBS checks. We value diversity and encourage applications from candidates who are underrepresented in our workforce, including people from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, and LGBTQI+ communities. As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to promoting a culture that ensures there are no barriers to the recruitment, development, and progression of disabled staff across the trust. We provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure disabled job applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate their abilities.
Flexible Interview Dates:
Please note that interview dates are flexible, and the academy reserves the right to interview shortlisted candidates during the application window.
Ready to Make a Difference?
If you're ready to take the next step in your career and contribute to our dynamic and forward-thinking team, apply today and be a part of our mission to create a positive impact
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About Astrea Academy Sheffield
Astrea Academy Sheffield
Andover Street, Burngreave, Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S3 9EJ
United Kingdom
Do you want to be part of a strong team where you will help make a lasting impact on the life chances of the young people of Burngreave?
Our vision is to provide an exceptional, knowledge-rich educational experience, which ensures that all scholars succeed. We are looking to recruit brilliant staff who share that vision and who understand the moral imperative that we have to serve our community.
What we offer:
* Wonderful and caring young people
* A strong & established Early Years Provision, including an on-site Nursery
* Huge support and progression opportunities
* A knowledge rich curriculum, built on 'powerful knowledge' and a traditional T&L approach built around Rosenshine and TLAC
* Stimulating conversations about curriculum & pedagogy
* Collaborative planning with centralised, shared units of work and resources
* An obsession with reading
* A feedback policy focused on whole class feedback – no onerous marking policies
* Disruption-free learning and a 'warm/strict' behaviour system
* Highly visible/supportive senior leaders who have your back
* In the secondary phase, a centralised behaviour, sanctions and detention
* No formal graded lesson observations – just ongoing 'no-stakes' instructional coaching, helping you to continuously develop
* Excellent ongoing CPD, career development and promotion opportunities across Astrea
* Opportunity to complete NPQs
* Fabulous food, cooked by our in-house chef
What we are looking for:
* Hard working professionals with excellent subject knowledge in their areas of expertise
* People who lead with their heart and do whatever it takes to ensure the life chances of our scholars are maximised
* Someone who passionately believes that all children can achieve, no matter what their starting point, background or needs. Someone that does not make excuses for what children can achieve
* Someone who is totally aligned with our vision and values. If you are the type of person who fits with our culture, you will love working here.
We actively welcome visits and would be delighted to show you around our Academy, so you can fully appreciate our excellent learning environment. Please contact
to arrange a visit to either of our phases.
Visit our Social Media Pages
Secondary Phase 'X'
@AstreaAcadSheff
Primary Phase 'X'
@AASSheffPrimary
Secondary Phase Instagram
@astreaacademysheffield
Astrea Academy Trust
We are a part of Astrea Academy Trust, a thriving family of 27 academies committed to inspiring our pupils beyond measure. Using our collective expertise, strengths and networks, we aspire to become one of the leading multi-academy Trusts for early years, primary, secondary, sixth form, and special needs throughout South Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire.
Astrea Academy Sheffield is an All-Through Academy for children from 2-18.
Full details can be found
here
.
David Boyd | Co-Principal - Secondary Phase & Sixth Form
Rachel Flemming | Co-Principal - Primary Phase
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion at Astrea Academy Trust
Astrea Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.
Astrea Academy Trust embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all requests for flexible working as we know that diversity fosters creativity and innovation.
We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities that we serve. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive and building our culture of belonging. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in Astrea's workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, LGBTQI+ people.
All successful appointments will be subject to suitability checks in accordance with KCSIE, including identity, Right to Work, prohibition, qualifications, online searches, two references and enhanced DBS check including the Children's Barred List.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA Guidance on the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, which provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions, can be found here:
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