Teacher of Girls PE (ECTs welcome to apply)

Pay Scale:                     MPS/UPS
Start date:                   September 2024/January 2025

Ridgeway Academy is a member of the Alban Academies Trust (AAT), together with Sandringham, Verulam, Garden Fields JMI, Skyswood Primary and Nursery, Wheatfields Junior and Wheatfields Infants’ and Nursery schools.  We work in a multi-academy trust to share best practice, deliver joint training, promote the highest of expectations and raise achievement for all students. The AAT motto is ‘Educational Excellence for Everyone’. The trust offers significant opportunities for career development of staff at all levels within our organisation. This is an exciting time to join the school as it takes the next step in its journey to becoming good and then outstanding. 

We opened in September 2018, as part of the Alban Academies Trust, to great excitement from our community with the aim of becoming a truly outstanding school in the future. Our motto is ‘Everyone can achieve’ and we are looking to appoint an outstanding person who can help us achieve our ambitions

We can offer you:

• A collaborative, supportive team with a passion for teaching and facilitating progress

• Enthusiastic students who are keen to progress

• Appropriate professional development

We are looking for someone who:

• Has a track record of outstanding teaching and learning and excellent subject knowledge

• Passionate Teacher who puts student progress and engagement at the heart of all they do

• Be inspiring and dynamic

• Can share and deliver in the vision to be outstanding

• Is willing to learn and help evolve the good practices already in place Ridgeway Academy School is part         of the Alban Academies Trust (AAT).

Ridgeway Academy is committed to ensuring inclusion, diversity and equality of opportunity. We welcome applications from all suitable candidates and encourage those from underrepresented groups, and/or with protected characteristics, to apply.  Ridgeway Academy is committed to safeguarding children and young people. All post holders are subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, satisfactory references and medical clearance.

To learn more about the Trust please visit https://albanacademiestrust.org.uk/ If you would like to join us on our journey and have access to amazing career prospects through the trust, we would love to hear from you. Ridgeway Academy is committed to ensuring inclusion, diversity and equality of opportunity. We welcome applications from all suitable candidates and encourage those from underrepresented groups, and/or with protected characteristics, to apply.

The Trust is a close community of seven schools within Hertfordshire, three of which are Secondary schools and four are Primary schools. As part of the AAT we are able to maximise the opportunities for personal, professional and career development.

To apply, please submit a completed application via mynewterm https://www.mynewterm.com/  or see school website www.ridgeway.herts.sch.uk  if you have an issue completing the application form via mynewterm please contact the HR Officer by email (appointments@ridgeway.herts.sch.uk) or extension 3373.

Prospective candidates are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible as the school reserves the right to close the advert should we feel able to appoint an appropriate candidate.

Closing date:             Monday 15 July 2024 

Interview date:           TBC