Job Description

Salary:

MPS/UPS (31,650-49,084)

Job type:

Full Time, Permanent

Start date:

September 2025

Apply by:

8 May 2025

Job overview

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Teacher of PE

MPS/UPS (31,650 to 49,084)

Required From: September 2025

We are looking to appoint an outstanding teacher of PE to join our dynamic and successful department. Our Physical Education faculty is highly experienced, with a proven track record of outstanding examination results. Our GCSE PE results consistently rank in the top 1% nationally, and our vocational outcomes are also among the very best in the country.


We offer a broad and ambitious core PE curriculum and at KS4/5 offer both GCSE and A-Level PE, alongside Cambridge National and Cambridge Technical Sport courses. Our curriculum is underpinned by a clear intent to foster a love of physical activity and promote lifelong participation in sport and healthy living for all students.


This is an exciting time to join the team. We have recently installed a brand-new, state-of-the-art fitness suite, further enhancing our sports facilities and strengthening our well-established partnership with the local gym, Full Power Fitness. As part of the role, you'll have free access to both our on-site fitness suite and Full Power Fitness.


We also pride ourselves in an extensive extracurricular programme, with sports clubs running every evening after school. Students can take part in a wide range of sports including football, basketball, netball, gymnastics, and gym club. Many of our sessions are led by external coaches, thanks to our strong partnerships with local sports clubs and community organisations.


Beyond the classroom, we provide memorable enrichment opportunities, including trips and tours. Highlights from recent years include our Football and Netball Tour to Venice in 2024, an annual ski trip to Austria as well as stadium tours at Manchester City and Liverpool FC.


We welcome applications from both experienced teachers or Early Career Teachers (ECTs) who feel they can bring energy, enthusiasm, and a genuine passion for PE, sport science and promoting physical activity. A strong commitment to supporting extra-curricular sport and enrichment opportunities is essential.


Heanor Gate Spencer Academy is an '

Outstanding' secondary school and sixth form

(Ofsted, June 2023) which is oversubscribed in Year 7 for the second successive year. We are extremely proud of our inspection report which is a testament to 7 years of school improvement. It states that "teachers are subject experts", "pupils are ambitious about their future", "classrooms are calm places, where pupils focus on their learning" and "leaders are relentless in their desire to provide the absolute best education for all pupils and to serve the local community".


Over the past 8 years we have developed an inclusive, disciplined culture which has culminated in a student body full of aspiration, commitment and success. The staff buy into #TeamHeanor and this ethos of collegiality, team values and moral compass is what makes the unique working environment at Heanor Gate so enjoyable and fulfilling.


Spencer Academies Trust is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2800 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence.


We currently have 17 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and one primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers, and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country, and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.

Mission:

Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.

Vision:

Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.

We Believe:

All children have a right to a quality education regardless of background or ability, and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development. Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a 'family' and are open to a true sense of partnership. We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for quality and outcomes; we achieve more.

Applicants would be expected to share the Trust's high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff.


If you would like to discuss the role, or have any queries, please contact Rob Fretwell (Curriculum Team Leader - Physical Education & Performing Arts) at rfretwell@heanorgatespencer.org.uk or on 01773716396.
The Spencer Academies Trust Safer recruitment policy requires applications for this post must be submitted through our recruitment portal. CVs cannot be accepted. We are also required to request references prior to interview.


Closing date for applications is Thursday 8 May 2025


Interviews will take place on w/c Monday 12 May 2025

Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to withdraw or interview and close the advert ahead of the closing date.

Applications are submitted through our Every Candidate Portal. If you are a new user to our portal, you can click on '

Register'

to complete your candidate profile. If you already have a candidate profile with us, click on '

Sign In'.

Both of these routes allow you to feed your candidate information into any of our vacancies and view the status of your application.


We have added a video to help guide you through our portal, please visit https://vimeo.com/737845492/c1b8e43656

Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children and young people. Therefore, we expect everyone to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre- employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records with Barred List Check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the completion of Level 2 Safeguarding training. It is an offence to apply for the role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children (where the role involves this type of regulated activity).

The Trust and its member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education provision. We aim to ensure that students, parents, governors, employees, contractors, partners, clients and other stakeholders within the Trust community are treated fairly, and with dignity and respect regardless of Protected Characteristics

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Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer

About

Heanor Gate Spencer Academy

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Heanor Gate Spencer Academy

Kirkley Drive, Heanor
Derbyshire
DE75 7RA
United Kingdom

+44 1773 716396

Heanor is a small town, situated on the edge of the Peak District National Park and the Derwent Valley World Heritage site within easy reach of Derby, Nottingham and the M1. The school is located in the south-west of the town and its catchment area includes most of Heanor and nearby Loscoe, along with the rural parishes of Smalley, Shipley, Horsley Woodhouse and Morley. The school is popular, with a number of our students coming from outside the catchment area.



At Heanor Gate Spencer Academy, we are very proud of our strong reputation in the community. We will endeavour to continually improve in all aspects of the education we provide and become an outstanding school that everyone can be proud of. Our new school ethos of 'Aspire, Learn and Achieve' will permeate throughout everything we do and is a shared vision that every member of the school community can buy into. We will insist on the very highest standards for all of the students in our care.



Our aims for the school are to DEVELOP ALL LEARNERS TO ACHIEVE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL and to CREATE A CULTURE OF ASPIRATION. This is what we all firmly believe in and strive to achieve at all times.



Heanor Gate Spencer Academy has a genuinely comprehensive intake. The eclectic mix of backgrounds makes for a lively, friendly and engaging atmosphere. Parents, visitors, supply teachers and student teachers regularly comment on the calm, purposeful and welcoming environment. Staff and students enjoy working here and as a consequence low staff turnover and a low permanent exclusion rate are defining features of the school.



Teaching and learning is fundamental to our success. We aim to offer the highest quality opportunities for teaching and learning and to develop our staff as outstanding practitioners. We have a clear structure to support teaching and learning in school and robust systems of monitoring and reviewing the success of each curriculum team.



As one of the first converter Academies in the country, a Leading Edge and a co-founder of Challenge Partners we are at the forefront of innovation, individualised learning and teaching excellence. Our designations as an approved Academy Sponsor, National Support School, Teaching School and licensee of the National College's leadership development programmes reflects the extent of our contribution to system-wide improvement and builds on our excellent reputation for the training and development of teachers and leaders.



A key component of our everyday work is, of course, ensuring that high quality learning is experienced every day within the school; by every student, in every subject and in every lesson. Alongside this we recognise that all students have a range of social, emotional and personal needs that may require support. To this end, Heanor Gate School also gives great weight to the importance of an effective induction programme and on-going guidance for each student in order to try to ensure that each young person is both happy and successful with an Achievement team and tutors that will challenge and support every student to reach their potential.



We value our staff as an essential part of our success and are committed therefore to providing outstanding opportunities for staff development, not only through high quality Inset days, but also within curriculum and pastoral teams and through the Teaching and Learning Coaching Team. All middle and senior leaders are offered the opportunity to take part in NCSL initiatives. There is a dedicated programme of support and continuing professional development for NQTs. In addition, we work in partnership with a number of local universities for Initial Teacher Training and are committed to supporting these beginning teachers in their career.



The success of any school is of course dependent on the contribution made by everyone connected with the school. We are very lucky to have staff who are hard working, committed and willing to go that extra mile, parents who are very supportive and work with the school to ensure their children strive to achieve their best, governors who have the best interests of the school at heart and are actively involved with the school and students who are proud of the school. All of these are a major factor in the school's success.



We are looking to appoint a talented, committed and hard-working individual who will make a difference to the lives of young people. You will be expected to get involved in all aspects of school life and establish yourself as a valued colleague in the school community. If you are up to the challenge then we look forward to receiving your application.