PE Technician

Your responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring equipment and materials prepared for lessons are to the teacher's specification
• Assisting and taking on key roles within major sports dates throughout the year
• Updating the PE noticeboard with news about clubs, fixtures and BTEC Sport
• Participating in and assisting with the organisation of trips and activities
• Assisting with the setting up and packing away of whole school sports events and activities
• Maintaining all sports equipment in the storage room
• Setting up for sporting clubs and leading sport specific warm-ups when needed
• Liaising with finance team to book pitches for fixtures
• Washing, drying and organising bibs and kit
• Helping with the organisation and running of events such as sports presentation evening, sports days, inter-school competitions and open evenings
• Preparing letters and emails as required
• Undertaking safety checks and risk assessments for practical activities
• Answering telephone and relaying messages
• Arranging/confirming fixtures and producing fixture lists, and attending fixtures
• Contributing to extra-curricular activities
• Ensuring understanding of the various Physical Education and Sport syllabi

The successful candidate will:

• Hold Qualifications to A-Level or equivalent in Physical Education or Sport (Vocational)
• Have Basic knowledge of Health and Safety regulations
• Have Good understanding of a range of sporting activities
• Have a Full driving licence required
• Have Experience or solid understanding of working as a technician in a school or educational establishment, undertaking a range of practical tasks
• Have Experience of managing and being responsible for your own workload

Our people are at the heart of our success. We have developed a strong culture of collaboration and best practice, with professional development and career planning at its centre. We invest in our staff with support, coaching, mentoring, and a wide range of top-quality training programmes delivered at every level.

In addition to the opportunities for career development and progression, we also offer a competitive rewards and benefits package which includes a Performance and Loyalty Bonus, Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions, a Wellbeing Cash Plan, electric car scheme, 26 days' annual leave (plus bank holidays) for staff who work across the full year, and many other benefits. Learn more about our benefits on our website.

The vision of Harris Academy Clapham is a simple one. From our opening in September 2020, our academy is a place where ‘everything is possible'.

The Clapham curriculum is designed to meet the needs, aspirations and abilities of every one of our students. Our aim is to improve their life chances and enable them to make a positive contribution to the city and world in which they live.

At Harris Clapham, the curriculum is delivered through high-quality teaching. This is codified in our research-informed approach to pedagogy, which we call the Clapham Way. The following principles apply in our curriculum:

• Subject specific knowledge and skills come first
• Embedding and building on the basics – ensuring that every student acquires the vocabulary, literacy and numeracy skills to enable them to fully participate in society
• The curriculum must be rigorous and relevant by engaging with the best of what has been thought and said and acknowledging that knowledge is fluid and can be contested
• The curriculum must prepare for life in modern Britain and beyond, and enable Clapham students to understand their rights and fulfil their responsibilities under the Equality Act.

Through the Clapham academic, enrichment and pastoral curriculum we expect our students to develop powerful knowledge and the following values and character attributes that will enable them to achieve our vision that ‘Everything is Possible'.

Endeavour for excellence

• Learning to work hard and relish challenge.
• Learning to never give up.
• Learning to take sensible risks.
• Learning to always strive for the best for themselves and each other.

Integrity and honesty

• Always acting with kindness.
• Treating others the way they would like to be treated.

Self-belief with a global view

• Growing to have the agency to achieve their ambitions for themselves and the wider world.

Our staff are supported in their work and in developing their future careers via:

• A centralised behaviour system, with each year group supported by non-teaching pastoral leaders
• A programme of instructional coaching, supported by the Step Lab platform
• Access to a wide range of National Professional Qualifications delivered by the Institute of Teaching
• Federation subject consultant support
• Harris Federation professional development training days and networking support.