Sports Coach (Full-Time during Term Time)
The Queen's School
Cheshire West and Chester
- New
- Expiring soon
- Salary:
- Salary will be paid at point 17+ on The Queen’s School scale, being £22,308 FTE.
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 21 November 2024
Job overview
Sports Coach (Full-Time during Term Time)
The Queen’s School are looking for an enthusiastic Sports Coach to assist in the running of the PE department, delivering, assisting and enhancing sports offerings, ideally with a January 2025 start date.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and a flexible approach are essential to meet the varied demands of a school environment.
Applicants must have knowledge of a range of sports and an excellent ability to coach both primary and secondary school aged pupils to a high standard. Experience of coaching football would be an advantage as we would like to develop opportunities for pupils in this area.
Moreover, the successful candidate must be able to be an effective communicator, work well in a team and be proactive in developing our provision within the department; including commitment to extra-curricular activities and fixtures both during the week and at a weekend.
The Department
The department is based across two sites with a team of six staff that provide PE across all Key Stages.
We participate in a large range of sports competitively (locally and nationally) and we have a non-competitive programme based on health, wellbeing and fitness.
We have several thriving teams that have enjoyed success at a range of levels including tournaments. A number of individual pupils have gained national representation and sport is popular with pupils across all Key Stages including at an introductory level at our lower school.
The department is dedicated to extra-curricular provision and has an extensive programme of both competitive and non-competitive activities for all pupils to participate in both during the week and at weekends. We are proud to offer an inclusive programme of competitive sport that allows competition at varying levels.
The Role
The key responsibilities of the Sports Coach will be:
- To work cooperatively with the Heads of PE and the rest of the PE department in order to operate a well-structured coaching programme.
- To provide a high-quality coaching programme for all teams from senior school and also coaching in our lower school.
- To maintain and recommend equipment and supplies needed for the implementation of the sports and PE programme.
- To foster among the players a desire to win, an attitude of good sportsmanship, personal pride, and pride for their school and community.
- To deliver curriculum lessons in a range of sports, ideally leading on Football and assisting with the delivery of other lessons within the curriculum.
- To assist a range fixtures, both related to and unrelated to Football.
Benefits of working at The Queen’s School
In return for your commitment the School offers:
- Guaranteed, contracted hours
- Pro-rata annual leave entitlement of 25 days per year (dependent on actual hours worked), in addition to Bank Holidays. Entitlement increases to 30 days per year following 5 years’ service.
- School branded workwear provided
- On-site parking
- Pension Scheme
- Subsidised meals
- School fees discount
Salary
Salary will be paid at point 17+ on The Queen’s School scale, being £22,308 FTE. The applicable actual salary will be £19,075.28 per annum based on 40 hours per week worked during term time only based on the 2024/25 academic year.
Application
The application form and a letter of application, which should be no more than one side of A4, should be addressed to the Head of PE and emailed to recruitment@thequeensschool.co.uk no later than 5.00pm on Thursday 21 November 2024.
Interviews will be held the week beginning Monday 25 November 2024.
It is The Queen’s School policy that feedback will not be given following application. Please note that applications will only be considered on the school’s application form.
For further information, please visit our website www.thequeensschool.co.uk before you come to the School.
It is the School’s policy to employ the best qualified team and to provide equal opportunity for the advancement of our team, including promotion and training, and not to discriminate against any person because of their race, colour, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, religion or religious belief, disability or age
No recruitment agencies please.
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About The Queen's School
Welcome to Queen’s
The Queen’s School is a leading selective GSA Independent day school providing education for around 450 girls between the ages of 4 and 18 years.
The school is highly successful, with a strong and consistent emphasis on the needs of individual pupils that focuses on enabling pupils to challenge, question and develop. The Queen’s school is well known for its excellent pastoral care, which is a hallmark of its community and underpins the academic focus that characterises the school. The vast majority of our pupils go on to attend their first choice university, including medical and Oxbridge places, and leave the school as confident, articulate and well balanced young women.
The school is situated close to the centre of the thriving, historic city of Chester and a few minutes cycle ride or drive from the unspoiled countryside of Cheshire, Wirral and North Wales. Manchester and Liverpool are within easy reach, and London is 2.5 hours away via train.
The ISI awarded the school the highest standard of “excellent” in all categories in its most recent inspection.
The History of the School
The Queen’s School was founded in 1878. The school's pupils achieved considerable distinction from the outset. Of the sixteen girls who joined The Queen's School on its opening day in 1878, two would go on to win places at Cambridge - the first of many in a long and honourable tradition.
The school would subsequently provide Chester with its first female solicitor, its first lady mayor, the first woman to receive the Freedom of the City, the first woman president of the Freemen and Guilds in over 800 years and the first female cathedral provost in Church of England history.
The School buildings were erected with the financial assistance of several leading Chester families, on land on the Chester City Walls provided by the Duke of Westminster. This site still exists today as the main part of the Senior School. Further buildings have been constructed or acquired so that the school now inhabits a mixture of Georgian and Victorian buildings as well as more modern ones. The Queen’s Lower School was originally based in two large Victorian houses on Liverpool Road, Chester. It still occupies this site but has expanded in recent years.
Although much has changed since The Queen’s School was founded, our values-driven approach to education has remained the same and the school’s motto of “Honour Wisdom” still rings true and resonantly today.
Working at Queen’s
The Queen’s School has an outstanding reputation for staff and pupil welfare and staff career progression is important. Continuous professional development opportunities are offered, as is specific support for Early Career Teachers as part if the ECF. The school is a member of the Girls’ Schools Association network of schools, enabling access to a wealth of support, information and training.
Teachers at The Queen’s School are ambitious for themselves and for the school, but mainly for their pupils, getting to know them as individuals to set challenging but achievable targets. Across all year groups, there is an expectation of excellent results. At the Senior School, this includes the preparation of students for entry to highly competitive courses, including Oxbridge.
The Queen’s School invests proactively in technology to support teaching and learning, and an extensive and well-populated Virtual Learning Environment is well used by all pupils and staff at both the Lower and Senior Schools. All pupils in the Senior School have individual iPads and all teachers (Lower and Senior Schools) are provided with individual iPads to enhance their practice.
All members of staff are expected to contribute to the school's extracurricular programme, which mainly operates at lunchtimes and after school, and to support the marketing and admissions departments when necessary.
The Queen's School participates in a pension scheme with Legal and General and the Government Childcare Voucher scheme, offers discounted school lunches, reimburses parking costs for staff and offers a pro rata 50% fee reduction for staff members who would like their daughter/s to attend the school.
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