Resident Graduate – PE and Games

Job Overview

Includes year-round residential accommodation at our lovely Reading town centre campus, bills and all term time meals.

We are seeking a Resident Graduate for September 2025 with a passion for sports and working with young people. Candidates with specialisms in netball or hockey are particularly encouraged to apply.

Are you considering PE teaching, sports coaching or working in a sports-related role with young people and want to develop your skills and 'test the waters'? Or perhaps you are considering a year off to try something completely different!

This is an exciting opportunity for new graduates from September 2025. We are looking for candidates with a range of sporting interests and specialisms to work within our PE and Games department for the next academic year.

This one-year residential post provides valuable support to our PE and Games department, classroom learning and boarding houses, as well as an exciting and ideal opportunity for graduates who are considering a career in education to experience a year in the life of our vibrant and successful school. On a daily basis, you will also be supporting the House Team to ensure the pastoral welfare of all boarders and day students.

Responsibilities and Benefits

We aim to offer our Resident Graduates a memorable year working with energetic and inspiring students within a co-educational environment. The School will provide accommodation throughout the year and free board courtesy of our onsite restaurant, Oakview during term time. You will also have access to a gym and swimming pool on site, and in this paid role, you will have opportunities for continuing your professional development, training, and coaching qualifications.

This experience provides a platform for various career progression paths. At the end of your residency, you will have achieved positive results both personally and professionally, and you will have developed skills and experience of considerable value – particularly if you decide to continue your career in teaching.

About Leighton Park School

Leighton Park School, located on Shinfield Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG2 7ED, is a successful, forward-looking independent (HMC) day and boarding school for girls and boys aged 11-18 set in 65 acres of magnificent parkland.

Leighton Park exists to form young people of real character and confidence, with a determined desire to change the world, reflecting the school's Quaker values. In 2023, we won Senior School of the Year in the national Independent Schools Association Awards. We were also a finalist in the Independent Senior School of the Year in the TES Schools Awards 2023.

We are a school that inspires Achievement with Values, Character, and Community, and academic excellence is the consequence of our approach. Valuing breadth and depth, we are distinguished by excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM), Music, and Ethical Enterprise. The UK Government’s latest 16-18 league tables reveal Leighton Park to be the best performing School in Berkshire and in the top 1% of English schools. We are one of only eight schools to have always appeared in the top 100.

We challenge our students to imagine a better world. We then support them to develop the character, confidence, and determination to be changemakers.

Developing kind and compassionate leaders for the future is an important part of how we give our Quaker values currency and purpose. Leighton Park seeks to be a leading school that delights in being diverse, open-minded, and with a culture of equitable inclusion. For this reason, we warmly welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

Leighton Park School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; therefore, the successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check as part of our recruitment process.