Principal Teacher of Physical Education and Health and Wellbeing in Biggar

Location: Biggar High School. Hours: 35 hours per week. Salary: Principal Teacher 4, £64,503 per year.

About the School

• Provide a positive learning environment for all which enthuses, motivates and encourages pupils to embrace new ideas and to achieve the highest level of success in all curricular and extra‑curricular areas.
• Celebrate our successes – school, class, team, group or individual – past and present.
• Support pupils with a high quality delivery of pastoral care focusing on fostering positive relationships, developing self‑respect, secure beliefs and values, improved life skills, and a genuine sense of well‑being.
• Promote respect for people of all backgrounds, cultures, religions and ethnic origins and encourage acceptance, tolerance and personal responsibility.
• Foster effective leadership at all levels of school life to maximise support and commitment from staff and pupils; empower through distributive leadership and encouraging teamwork.
• Commit to ongoing improvements in attainment and achievement, and facilitate school leavers to a high proportion of positive sustained destinations.
• Promote and encourage exemplary behaviour, developing young people as effective contributors who are increasingly resilient, enterprising, eco‑aware and self‑reliant.
• Rigorously self‑evaluate to measure positive impact and identify ways to further improve services to the local community.
• Work in partnership with the wider school community to support pupils’ intellectual, emotional and health development.

Duties

• Lead, manage and support the work of colleagues, providing strategic direction and guidance as necessary.
• Lead curriculum development and quality assurance.
• Contribute to the development of school policy in relation to behaviour management of pupils.
• Review and support professional development and performance of colleagues through career‑long professional learning.
• Lead, implement and manage whole‑school policies including guidance, pastoral care and behaviour support where required.

Principal Teachers will receive a reduction in weekly class contact to enable them to carry out those duties. Additional duties must be undertaken within the 35‑hour working week and, if a classroom teacher role is retained, within the arrangements agreed at establishment level.

Application Process

• Please apply online – all correspondence will be via your email address.
• Preferred candidates identified after the selection event process will be required to assist the recruitment team to ensure timely completion of recruitment checks.
• Failure to complete checks within a reasonable timescale may result in withdrawal.
• Canvassing of elected members or council employees in connection with any appointment within the Council disqualifies the applicant.
• Only complete the application form; CVs will not be accepted.
• Further additional information (not a CV) can be uploaded under supporting documents.

Legal and Compliance

• Applicants must be registered with the General Teaching Council (Scotland) and may be required to complete a PVG scheme check.
• An overseas criminal records check may be required for those born outside the UK or who have lived or worked abroad in the past 10 years.
• South Lanarkshire Council is an Equal Opportunities employer, a Disability Confident Scheme Employer, and guarantees interviews to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.
• The Council also supports veterans and service leavers per the Armed Forces Community Covenant.