PE Teacher (Sponsorship Available) At Lift Kingswood

Employer: Lift Kingswood
Job Title: PE Teacher
Location: Hull, United Kingdom
Salary: £32,916 – £46,940 per annum
Job Type: Full-time
Closing Date: 23 September 2026 at 12:55pm

Teacher of PE Job Summary

Lift Kingswood are seeking a passionate and committed PE Teacher to join the team and help further strengthen the exceptional provision.

Lift Kingswood believes every child deserves a world-class education and works relentlessly to make that happen. The school is a place where every pupil is valued, supported, challenged and inspired, and where the team takes pride in having the highest of expectations and ensuring students achieve excellent outcomes.

About the Role

As a PE Teacher at Kingswood Academy, you’ll create a learning environment where all students feel supported and encouraged. You’ll plan engaging lessons, track student progress, and provide helpful feedback. Working closely with colleagues, pastoral staff, and parents, you’ll help meet the needs of every student and build their confidence.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and teach lessons that engage students and build understanding
• Adapt your teaching style to meet the needs of all learners, including those with SEND, high ability, and EAL
• Use assessment and feedback to help students reflect on their progress and close any gaps
• Build a positive classroom culture with clear routines and high expectations for behaviour
• Work with colleagues, parents, and support staff to create the best outcomes for every student

Lift Kingswood Is Looking for Someone Who

• Have QTS, or are currently training and due to achieve QTS by September 2026 or hold a degree in a sport discipline and would like to transition into teaching through the in-house Instructor training route, leading to securing qualified teacher status within two years. Helping Lift Kingswood to develop the next generation of great teachers.
• Have a genuine passion for teaching PE and a love for the subject
• Have a desire to make a difference to young people’s lives
• Are committed to great relationships and high-quality teaching
• Want to work in a school where hard work is supported and valued

About Lift Kingswood

As a national beacon of excellence and one of the region’s highest-performing academies, Lift Kingswood consistently delivers student results well above the national average. Rated Outstanding by Ofsted for leadership, behavior, and personal development, Lift Kingswood offers a dynamic environment where both staff and students thrive.

Whats Next?

Lift Kingswood strongly recommends visiting the school if you are interested in the post, please contact PA to the Principal:

Who Is Lift Schools?

Lift Schools is made up of 62 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 35,000 pupils across the country. Lift Schools believes education can transform lives – and wants every child in its schools to achieve their full potential.

How Lift Schools Support You

Lift Schools wants you to feel supported, valued and able to grow throughout your career with Lift Schools. From high-quality professional development and career progression to wellbeing support and opportunities to connect and collaborate across the network, Lift Schools invests in you so you can do your best work.

Discover how Lift Schools will support you to thrive, develop and grow your career in the way that’s right for you: How Lift Schools support you

Further Information About the Job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored.

If you’re interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, Lift Schools can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to Safeguarding

Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils, and Lift Schools expects all people and volunteers to share this commitment. Lift Schools adopts a fair and consistent recruitment process which is in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.

About Lift Kingswood

Lift Kingswood is one of the highest performing schools in the country and is a school where on average students make over a grade more progress, across all subjects, than other students do nationally; placing the school as the 7th highest performing non-selective school in the country out of 6520 schools.

Lift Kingswood’s Vision is: ‘to deliver world class learning, which places no limits on what young people can achieve’ and Lift Kingswood is rapidly becoming ‘a national beacon of educational excellence in Hull’.

As a national beacon of educational excellence Lift Kingswood will ensure that:

• All students leave the school with first-rate qualifications: Qualifications that ensure all doors remain open, giving students the platform to compete and thrive on a global stage.
• All students develop exceptional character: Character that exemplifies a true growth mind-set; a phenomenal work ethic; confidence and high levels of grit, resilience and determination; ensuring they are fully prepared to flourish in an ever-changing world.
• All students leave the school with high levels of cultural and global awareness: Awareness that develops through diverse experiences that enrich students, enabling them to engage in, empathise with, challenge and debate current affairs beyond their local community.
• All students leave with an array of positive memories that last for a lifetime: Memories that are created from students, staff and the community being fully invested in forging exceptional relationships based on trust, care, high expectations and a passion for genuinely making a difference in their life.

Mission

Ultimately Lift Kingswood’s Mission is to ensure that: ‘all students have an inner-belief and ambition to fulfil their dreams and live a happy and successful life.’ Lift Kingswood is passionate about students ‘recognising their academic worth’ and making sure that they are ‘prepared to make bold choices in order to secure places, and thrive, at the most reputable and highest performing colleges, universities and world-class employers.’

Key Drivers

Underpinning Lift Kingswood’s vision for educational excellence are the 6 key drivers:

• The Highest Expectations – Everyone can be successful; always set and expect the highest standards.
• Everyone is Valued – Diversity is celebrated; no one is left behind
• No Excuses – Print Solutions not excuses; a accelerate progress
• Never Give Up – Resilience is essential; turn challenges into opportunities
• Value Feedback – Good quality feedback drives improvement
• Outstanding Learning – Outstanding learning in every lesson, every day

These aspirational and inspirational core principles are central to everything that Lift Kingswood does and were jointly created by students and staff to drive the school forward. At Lift Kingswood, these key drivers are lived and breathed with an unwavering passion and determination to ensure that students receive the best education; Lift Kingswood will not settle for anything but the best, and will not rest until the school is truly great in all areas.

World-Class Teaching and Learning

Lift Kingswood is truly passionate about Teaching and Learning and this is central to everything that Lift Kingswood does. Lift Kingswood firmly believes that when every teacher:

• Is passionate about changing life chances of young people
• Is passionate about Teaching and Learning
• Truly loves their subject
• Makes learning interesting, fun and relevant
• Knows the detail and nuances of the exam specifications
• Forges excellent relationships with all students
• Is strict but fair
• Is proven and knows how to deliver top notch results
• Is passionate about delivering outstanding learning (every lesson, every day)
• Has a true growth mind-set;

Together great things can be achieved.

House System

Lift Kingswood is also very proud of its competition-based house system. The aim of the house system is to build teamwork, confidence and community through competition. Lift Kingswood sees the house system as an ‘activator’, a vehicle to motivate and encourage students to push themselves outside of their comfort zone.

There are four houses:

• Reckitt
• Wilberforce
• Johnson
• Sullivan

Every student, and every member of staff, is affiliated to one of the houses and they compete to earn points for their house. Students can earn points for good attendance and for making rapid academic progress. They can also earn points by entering house competitions such as: photography, dance, cookery, poetry, chess, talent shows and sports day to name but a few.

Lift Kingswood has got a competition to enable everyone to get involved. Lift Kingswood wants every student to gain the confidence and belief to compete and experience what it feels like to be part of a successful team. The house system also exposes students to team camaraderie, team spirit and having a united mission/goal.

Academic Results

Lift Kingswood’s Progress 8 score is +1.17; meaning that in every subject, students make over a grade more progress than other students do nationally. Lift Kingswood’s Attainment 8 score is 56.8, against the National Average of 44.3. This means that students on average achieve between a Grade 5 (good pass) and a Grade 6 in all subjects.

78% of students also achieved a Grade 4 or higher in both English and Maths, which is well above the National Average of 63%.

Lift Kingswood’s disadvantaged students’ Progress 8 score is +1.15 and the SEN Progress 8 score is +1.29, highlighting that all students achieve well at Kingswood Academy; in line with the key driver of ‘Everyone is valued’.

As a school, Lift Kingswood has the highest expectations of students, which led to 22% of students achieving Grade 9s in GCSE subjects, placing these students’ performance in the top 5% of the country.

Visits

Lift Kingswood welcomes visits to the school, to see the school in action and to discuss this post and your career development opportunities.

To book an appointment with the Headteacher please email Cathrine Weightman (PA to the Headteacher) on cweightman@liftkingswood.org

OFSTED

To view all Lift Kingswood’s Ofsted reports please click here

Who Is Lift Schools?

Lift Schools is made up of 57 primary, secondary and special schools, educating more than 33,000 pupils across the country. Lift Schools believes education can transform lives – and wants every child in its schools to achieve their full potential.

Lift Schools Mission

Lift Schools will provide an excellent education to every child, in every classroom, every day.

With excellent leadership and teaching in every school, Lift Schools will help children go on to lead successful and happy lives.

Lift Schools will work with others beyond the network to benefit more children and communities.

How to Apply

If you’re interested in this role, visit the company’s official website for more information — click here to submit your application.