Female PE Teacher 

Permanent, Full Time

ECT / MPS / UPS

September 2025 start

Closing Date Friday 6th June 2025

Please note that this post is open to female applicants only in order for the school to ensure the appropriate ratio of female staff to supervise girls.

We are seeking to appoint a highly skilled, inspiring and forward-thinking colleague to join our PE team. Whether you’re experienced or newly-qualified, you will have the opportunity to join a highly successful department with a supportive and collaborative ethos. Knowledge or experience of playing football would be an advantage.

Horsforth School is no ordinary School, join us and you’ll see what we mean. No role in Horsforth School is ‘just a job’, you will become part of a team who work to support and develop our amazing students whilst giving you the opportunity to take ownership of your own career. We are very proud of our outstanding, highly motivated and enthusiastic staff team and strongly believe that working collaboratively, sharing ideas and supporting each other achieves great things and allows us to develop innovative teaching and learning strategies.

Join us and you will be part of a fantastic PE Department with a strong team ethos. Our school is dedicated to evidence-based practice with a focus on Rosenshine’s principles of instruction, and we have a strong emphasis on incorporating educational research in to lessons. We are proud of the number of sports teams that run across all year groups and our success in regional and national cups in many sports. 

The department has a strong academic pathway and there are multiple groups in both GCSE and A level PE. We have also recently introduced a vocational pathway due to the popularity of the subject at both level 2 and level 3. We have links with Trinity University and Cookridge Hall golf club who we collaborate with to run our ‘Golf Academy’ in the sixth form.

Our vision is ‘Opportunity and Achievement for All’ - creating opportunities and supporting achievement for our students and colleagues alike. 

Horsforth School’s results speak for themselves - GCSE and A Level results are consistently well above the national averages and in 2022, 2023 and 2024 the school had the best state school A Level results in the whole of Leeds.

In addition, Horsforth School was named one of the top 10 schools in the North in The Sunday Times Power Guide in 2024 and the Yorkshire Post has recently voted the Sixth Form at Horsforth one of the top 3 Sixth Forms in Yorkshire.

We are also delighted to be able to offer the following staff incentives and recognise the importance of activities outside of the classroom for staff wellbeing:

• Extracurricular activities
• Exciting trips and visits
• Free access to an onsite gym and opportunity to join the staff football team
• Bike to work scheme
• Regular staff voice
• Buzzing and lively staffroom/work hubs
• Cover Pool – allows teaching staff access to an amount of flexible working per academic year
• Amazing onsite catering with regular all staff breakfasts and seasonal events
• New Sixth Form building with onsite coffee shop ‘Common Grounds’
• Onsite car parking/excellent public transport links with local train station providing easy access from Leeds and Harrogate
• Dedicated investment in physical and mental wellbeing
• Access to Vivup – an Employee Assistance Programme with confidential employee support available everyday 24/7 for counselling and any concerns such as bereavement, mental health support, debt, legal issues.
• Recognise the importance of a good work/life balance

Located in North-West Leeds, the school is just five miles from the city centre with its thriving retail, leisure and cultural facilities, yet on the edge of open countryside. York, Harrogate and the Yorkshire Dales are within easy reach.

If you’d like to find out more, please call 0113 226 5454. Or for full details and to download an application form, please visit www.horsforthschool.org and click on the vacancies tab or email recruitment@horsforthschool.org 

We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or religion. The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students and we expect all colleagues to share this commitment.  Appointments will be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure.

The above post is not a Leeds City Council vacancy and has been advertised on behalf of the relevant organisation. To apply please follow their application instructions.