Teacher of Sport & PE

The Sports and Physical Education Department at Queen Marys College is a strong well performing department that offers a broad range of opportunities both to study and participate in.

The PE facilities are outstanding. The PE Department makes extensive use of these facilities which includes a gymnasium indoor heated swimming pool a large sports hall and a fitness suite. QMC also has a 3G football and rugby pitch a sandbased Astroturf pitch as well as a rugby pitch. In addition the College makes extensive use of council facilities that include a synthetic athletics track waterbased Astroturf pitch netball cricket and indoor tennis facilities. We have wellestablished links with the local community working with primary and secondary schools and external clubs such as Totally Tennis.

At present the Department comprises six full time staff and three parttime staff delivering a wide range of courses at levels 2 & 3:

A Level PE AQA Specification

BTEC Diploma in Sport and Exercise Science

BTEC Extended Certificate in Sport and Exercise Science

Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma and Sport and Physical Activity

Cambridge Technical Extended Certificate in Sport and Physical Activity

Cambridge Technical Sport and Physical Activity

BTEC Extended Diploma in Sport & Exercise Science

BTEC Certificate/ Subsidiary Diploma in Sport and Exercise Science.

In addition the Department offers a wide range of enrichment courses and activities:

YMCA Level 2 Fitness Instructor

YMCA Level 3 Personal Trainer

Level 3 Sports Leader

National Pool Lifeguard Qualification

First Aid at Work

Duke of Edinburgh Awards up to Gold

Large numbers of students participate in an extensive programme of team games which is mostly on Wednesday afternoons. The Colleges representative teams include womens and mens basketball netball rugby volleyball badminton athletics cricket and tennis which the PE teachers also coach. The College also runs a successful Football Academy comprising of two mens and one womens football team. Students within the Academy and other College teams receive coaching structured within their timetable. Several of our students have reached county and international level in their sports

Our main priorities are to maintain and extend our examination success and to provide our students with a range of attractive and interesting courses and activities. It is our overall aim to develop further the role of Physical Education within the College by encouraging even greater student participation in all types of sports courses.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The person appointed will teach Physical Education/Sports courses and will be a Personal Tutor to a group of students who are taking sport and PE courses as part of their programme of study. PE teachers also coach the colleges sports teams.

Teaching Duties

The person appointed will teach a timetable that may include a range of courses from the departmental provision. Wherever possible there will be flexibility over the subjects and aspects to be taught taking into account personal experience skills and preferences.

Personal Tutor Responsibilities

The Personal Tutor has two primary responsibilities: to support and to inform.

To support:

The Personal Tutor plays a vital role in motivating monitoring supporting and guiding students academic progress through the College through regular onetoone consultations. Daily and weekly attendance reports a collegewide electronic mark book and the student profiling cycle all provide valuable information about individual progress and enable Tutors to identify problems at an early stage. It is the responsibility of the Tutor in the first instance to act upon this information as appropriate. This may mean for example offering advice liaising with other subject staff or organizing additional subject support.

Some students will experience personal difficulties during their time at college and these may well be brought to the Personal Tutor especially if academic progress is being hindered.

To inform:

It is the responsibility of the Personal Tutor to ensure tutees are aware of college policies and procedures.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Candidates will be shortlisted by illustrating that they fulfil the following criteria:

Qualifications

a good relevant degree

a current recognised teaching qualification

Experience

recent teaching experience is desirable particularly in vocational PE.

a good working knowledge of recent curriculum developments at post16 is desirable

the ability to teach to Advanced level

Skills

excellent teaching skills

the ability to coach one or more of the sports we offer

good organisational and time management skills

good communication and interpersonal skills

the ability to work with others as part of a closeknit team

the ability to adapt and be flexible

to motivate young people to develop their academic and practical ability

Attitude

a willingness to contribute to the development of course materials for courses offered by the Department

a willingness to contribute to the Colleges support programme of study skills and extension work

Salary Sixth Form Colleges National pay scales ranging from NSP1 to NSP9

September 2025 start date

Interview dates: Wednesday 21st May / Thursday 22nd May