Deputy Head of Sport & Health Girls

We are seeking to appoint a motivated and ambitious Deputy Head of Sport & Health (Girls) to join our well-resourced department. This is an exciting opportunity for an existing or aspiring middleleader who is passionate about ensuring all students have access to outstanding teaching and learning across all key stages. We are a dynamic, supportive, and open minded team constantly striving forexcellence.

The Person

The successful candidate will be an excellent teacher of PE who is ambitious and wants to furthertheir career. You will have high expectations of your students and have an innovative approach tocurriculum ideas, supporting staff development and promoting positive healthy lifestyles across theschool.Do you share our values, have the vision and drive for excellence and want to be part of anenthusiastic and well-resourced team? Then we would like to hear from you.

We are a large, mixed, 11-18 academy with over 350 students in our sixth form. Due to ourincreased popularity and successes, we have recently expanded our roll to 12 forms in each yeargroup. Alperton Community School is an inclusive school with a student intake that reflects awonderfully diverse and vibrant local community. Our students are very well behaved, work hard andare ambitious to succeed. Our most recent Ofsted inspection in July 2021 graded our school asGood "Pupils like coming to school and they enjoy their lessons"; "Pupils can focus because they feelsafe"; "Leaders' expectations of all pupils are high"; "Pupils behave well in school. They focus on theirlearning in lessons. Pupils follow teachers' instructions and listen to one another".

Student progress at GCSE and A Level has been well above national averages for many years withdisadvantaged students' outcomes closely matching their peers. Our progress 8 score was 0.82 in2023 (well above average) with A Level progress in the top 1% of schools. We also see high numbersof our students' progress to Oxbridge and Russell Group Universities. Student attendance isexcellent and the percentage of students who remain in education, employment or training are alsowell above national averages.Recent awards include the 2022 Pearson "Making a Difference" Award; the school was recentlyshortlisted for the TES School of the Year and won the TES Maths Team of the Year.

This is an exceptional opportunity. It will offer the successful candidate a friendly, highly supportiveand committed working environment within a culture of success and professional growth. The schooloffers excellent support for ECTs in their induction year.

Continuing Professional Development

Employee Assistance Programme

Cashback Health Benefits

Cycle to Work Scheme

Pension Scheme

Commitment to safeguarding