Head of PE

Job description / Role

Your tasks include but are not limited to:
- To teach the pupils according to their educational needs and abilities
- To foster and support the school\'s rules and guidelines, aims, values and ethos
- To implement all relevant aspects of school policies e.g. Reports, homework, references, entries in year/option booklets etc.
- To plan, implement, review and develop the curriculum throughout the school. Planning the future development of the subject within the department, according to changes nationally and/or within the school is also vital. This may include the initiation of new ideas and the introduction of new material in the interests of improving the effectiveness of the department.
- To prepare schemes of work, the departmental handbook and any other necessary documentation
- To organize the department\'s contribution to the Open Morning
- To provide a lively and stimulating environment within the Physical Education building
- To encourage departmental members to develop skills to meet the needs of current educational requirements by attendance at lectures, conferences, and relevant courses,
- To represent the department in heads of department meetings and the dissemination of appropriate information to members of the department
- To organize the arrangement of teaching groups in consultation with the department and
- To liaise with the assistant head in all matters concerning the timetable
- To assist the head in the appointment of new staff to the department to organize the induction and supervision of newly qualified teachers, any teachers new to the school and those joining the school on a temporary basis and to review their work within the department.
- To develop all members of the department by supporting and delegating as appropriate
- To supervise student teachers, when appropriate
- To hold weekly departmental meetings, to keep minutes and submit to the head at regular intervals, and implement departmental decisions taken
- To oversee work provided for classes when members of the department are absent
- To manage departmental budgets
- To check equipment, resources and departmental areas and updates necessary. It is important that all equipment is made ready for students\' use in good time and necessary to oversee that the appropriate safety checks have been completed annually
- To be responsible for the security and safe use of valuable items held by the department
- To provide storage and maintenance of equipment, as appropriate
- To oversee the safety of pupils and staff in accordance with the school\'s Health and Safety Policy
- To be responsible for Health and Safety problems/risk assessment and to oversee the safety of all students when being taught and to make students themselves aware of safety
- To ensure that pupils wear appropriate, regulation clothing and are aware of safety rules within the department and especially those relating to Physical Education
- To oversee the departmental section in the library and to liaise with the librarian concerning new stock
- To encourage and organise activities and events associated with the subject e.g. lectures, exhibitions, visits, clubs, societies etc. and organise pupil participation in internal and external events and competitions, as appropriate
- To organize all matches, tournaments, tours and visits to other events in accordance with the school\'s policy for offsite trips
- To organize and manage a comprehensive list of fixtures for each term to encourage students to develop a sense of team spirit with emphasis on cooperation and commitment to teams, one another and the school
- To organize Sports Days, House Matches, inter-form matches and any other appropriate event(s)
- To oversee arrangements for all departmental events and to check these against the school calendar and, wherever possible, their entry in the provisional calendar for the next term
- To liaise with the ground staff to ensure pitches, courts, tracks etc. are maintained properly and marked correctly
- To liaise with form staff and the head, as appropriate, to ensure that the progress of each student in PE s monitored
- To manage the development of suitable materials, including making provision of realistic use of IT within the department to help with teaching and learning, as and when appropriate
- To encourage links between local clubs and the school, especially in sports not offered in school
- To manage and participate in the department\'s contribution to the extracurricular activities in the school
- To undertake other tasks relevant to the work of the department or the needs of the school, as these may arise (e.g. to serve as a form staff, to carry out duties, when asked to do so).
- Organizing presentation of trophies, colors and commendations

Compensation & Benefits:
Salary of10,000 AED plus furnished accommodation, medical cover, annual flights, EOS benefits.

Requirements

- Subject Related Degree / PGCE
- 4 years or above experience

About the Company

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