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Job Title: Unqualified PE Teacher
Location: 3 Dimensions School, Somerset
Salary: From £26,000 per annum depending on experience
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday 8.30am - 4.40pm
Contract: Permanent, Term Time Only
UK applicants only. This role does not offer sponsorship.
As part of our continued growth, we now have a fantastic opportunity for a Unqualified PE Teacher to join our close-knit team at 3 DimensionsSchool located in Somerset.
About the role
All students can experience Physical & Outdoor Education in a secure and positive environment. Our young people often have low self-esteem and self-worth, they frequently present with social difficulties and experience increased anxiety in social situations. In addition, their life skills, physical exercise, and life experiences are often limited. At 3 Dimensions Hummingbird site, students have the choice of following a sporting pathway that meets their needs and engages them to participate. Our approach encourages students to be resilient and have a go, by designing lessons and considering groups and activities that enable students to access and enjoy sport, and learning outside and beyond the classroom. Therefore, we may involve aspects of Geography and History within the curriculum and take a cross curricular approach where possible. We understand the need and importance to offer a diverse outdoor and physical education curriculum that is creative and adaptive. Therefore, to enable our students to be resilient, confident, happy and ultimately successful individuals, we provide opportunities for them to all participate in half-termly outdoor education activities such as climbing and kayaking.
Main Responsibilities:
Physical and Outdoor Education Teaching
- Plan, teach and deliver a stimulating, relevant, well-structured Physical and Outdoor Education curriculum for the students of the Hummingbird site that includes Asdan courses (inc. and beyond sport i.e. Geography) and DofE related activities. This will involve working with working with small/medium sized groups in addition to individual students
- Design inclusive and accessible lessons for all learners. Be adaptive in teaching to meet a wide range of abilities, social, emotional and communication needs to ensure all students are able to participate and reach their full potential
- Work alongside the Asdan and DofE Tutor/Coordinator and key TA staff
- Plan and prepare team sport/outdoor activity lessons, sessions and days, including, where relevant, associated activities and excursions i.e. DofE excursions and Careers opportunities
- Plan and prepare theory lessons for sport/outdoor qualifications that complement the practical lessons and address the curriculum criteria
- Organise sports and outdoor equipment and facilities and manage any given sports/outdoor budget
- Resource equipment, materials and outside provision for sport/outdoor lessons and half termly outdoor adventure pursuits i.e. kayaking and rock climbing
- Ensure that all sport related learning equipment is in good order, organised and available for the delivery of lessons
- Take a creative teaching approach, which will inspire our students to be curious and want to get involved and participate in sports and learning outdoors
- Where possible, take students sports interests into account and enable the timetabling of activities such as the use of the gym and swimming
Required
- Sports background
- Experience of working with young people
About the school
3 Dimensions School is in an exciting phase of growth and development. With not just one, but two school sites! Resulting in a far wider offer of educational places, and a wealth of opportunities for young people with SEN (i.e., Learning difficulties, speech, language and communication difficulties, Autism, ADHD, SEMH, PDA, Attachment Disorder, and young people who have experienced previous trauma).
3 Dimensions School is an Options Autism School, within the Outcomes First Group. We are an inclusive, forward-thinking school, who embrace diversity.
For over 16 years Options Autism have provided care and education to pupils, young people and adults with autism, complex needs and learning difficulties. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approaches that provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.
We are really proud to say that in 2024, Outcomes First Group were officially certified as a ‘Great Place to Work' for the fifth year running.
Why join Options Autism?
Benefits
Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you'll get an exceptional reward package including:
- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
- "Your Wellbeing Matters" – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks
And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that's right for you, including:
- A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
- 100's of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Electric Car Purchase Scheme
- Critical illness cover
And that's not all, we place the outcomes of the pupils and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you'll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.
We are committed to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and young people. All applicants will be subject to social media checks and successful applicants to a fully enhanced DBS.
- *You'll work 80% of your contractual hou