Position Overview & Specifications
We are looking to hire a PE Instructor / Teacher at Cambian Walnut Tree School. We are also considering applicants with other specialities so please hit apply below or email mollie.james@vacancies.caretech-uk.com.
About us:
The Cambian Group is one of the UK’s largest providers of specialist services in education, mental health rehabilitation and learning disabilities. We believe that every single person in our care has a personal best and we are committed to helping them achieve it.
Join us as a PE Instructor / Teacher and we’ll show the same commitment to helping you achieve your personal best in your career.
Walnut Tree School
Walnut Tree School is an independent co-educational day school for students aged 7-19 with social, emotional and mental health difficulties. The school delivers full time education and covers both academic and vocational subjects in line with national benchmarks. We deliver differentiated teaching and learning activities within small groups in a purpose-built school environment. As a school, we work collaboratively with residential and therapeutic practitioners with a focus on encouraging resilience and supporting holistic growth to promote pupils’ well-being.
The Headteacher is seeking to appoint an aspiring PE Instructor / Teacher to join this thriving specialist School. Reporting to the Headteacher, the PE Instructor / Teacher will be responsible for the delivery of engaging and challenging lessons, ensuring that the department and the school are successful in achieving its aims. The PE Instructor / Teacher will be an enthusiastic, flexible and determined individual who shares our values and is looking to develop their career in this specialist area.
PE Instructor / Teacher Person Specification:
- Understanding of teaching, learning and qualifications
- Experience of working in non-mainstream settings with challenging learners
- Ability to empathise and support the development of learning
- Robust understanding of safeguarding procedures
- Ability to work as part of a small team
- Excellent delivery and communication skills
- You must be reliable, flexible, adaptable, and possess the ability to motivate and inspire.
- Good coordination and organisational skills
- Demonstrable track record of student achievement
- Innovative, fast thinking and versatile
- Excellent time management
- Good general level of ICT skills including Microsoft Office
- Experience of working with E3/L1 qualifications
- Relevant teaching qualification or vocational experience – Essential
Purpose of the Job:
- The PE Instructor / Teacher will teach a range of young people the majority of who will have either learning or behavioural difficulties or both. To be cognisant of different methods in which children learn and to apply these sympathetically within the structure of lessons.
- The PE Instructor / Teacher will maintain good professional practices in accordance with the minimum standards.
- The PE Instructor / Teacher will help create a positive environment for each young person with particular reference to his or her safety, health and education.
We pride ourselves on being an Equal Opportunities Employer. And we are committed to safeguarding and protecting the young people and service users within our care. All candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and reference checks.
Cambian will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the search and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.
Wilden, Bedfordshire PE Instructor/ Teacher [SYS-4040]