Graduate Sports Assistant

St Peter’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment by always complying with the school’s Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy and Procedures.
The successful applicant will be required to undergo statutory pre-employment checks, including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Department: PE/Sport

Responsible to: Director of Sport

Hours of work: Full time – 34 weeks (term time only) plus 3 weeks, if required, for pre-season or sports’ tours

Additional Benefits: Free accommodation and meals (during term time) and sports’ clothing

Overall purpose of the post:

We are seeking to appoint a talented sports graduate to join our sports department to mainly support our rugby curriculum. The successful candidate will need to have experience playing or coaching Rugby. This is a great opportunity for an enthusiastic individual who is looking to help develop pupils in both a junior and senior school setting.

You will assist with lessons and coaching across a number of year groups and teams as well as providing support on match days and with team training.

Please be aware that the role is for one academic year but can also flex to suit the right candidate and may be able to end after one-to-two terms.

You will be attached to a Senior Boarding house in the school and there will be an expectation that you will undertake frequent duties in that setting including the supervision of the house during certain evenings and accompanying pupils on trips and activities at weekends by prior arrangement with the Deputy Head (Pastoral).

Key responsibilities:

To coach and manage sports teams as required

To officiate match days as appropriate

To assist with PE lessons

To work with small groups of pupils in specialised topic areas

To assist in running societies and co-curricular activities as appropriate

To assist in school visits

To undertake cover duties and invigilation where necessary

To be an integral part of the day and boarding community and work with day and boarding staff to deliver quality pastoral care and activities for day and boarding pupils. This will include regular evening and weekend duties

To be on a call out rota to assist staff in the medical centre dealing with pupils who require overnight care. It is expected that such call outs will only occur in exceptional circumstances and payment for being on the rota is included within your salary. If you are called upon, you will receive an additional payment at the standard overnight supervision rate

To attend any relevant training sessions to ensure that you are fully equipped to perform your role effectively

General

Health & Safety – You have a legal duty to take reasonable care of your own health and safety and that of others and you are expected to be familiar with, and adhere to, St Peter’s School’s Health and Safety policy.

School values – You have a duty to ensure your work, communication and approach conforms to the school’s core values and mission. You will need to be aware and comply with school rules, policies and procedures at all times including, but not limited to, those relating to safeguarding, conduct, equality and data protection.

St Peter’s School strives to be diverse and inclusive. We encourage applications from people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, who are underrepresented at the school. The school is committed to providing equal opportunity to all employees and pupils. This means that employees are treated fairly, irrespective of sexual orientation, ethnic origin, religion, disability, age, gender, marital status or other reason.

The post holder is expected to always comply with the provisions set out in law and the St Peter’s policies on equality and diversity.

The school is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit.

Note:

This job description is not intended to be a comprehensive list of duties and responsibilities associated with the post. The post holder will be expected to comply with any reasonable request to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in this job description.

This job description may be amended at any time in consultation with the postholder.