Graduate/Undergraduate Sports Coach and Boarding Assistant
Warminster School
Wiltshire
- £12,500 per year
- Salary:
- own salary scale
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Start date:
- September 2025
- Apply by:
- 6 January 2025
Job overview
Graduate / Undergraduate Sports Coach & Boarding Assistant
(Specialism in netball, rugby, hockey, cricket or strength & conditioning – 2 posts)
Warminster School seeks to appoint, from September 2025 to July 2026, an innovative and well-qualified Sports coach to inspire pupils across the age range in the senior school and prep schools (Ages 2-18).
Embracing Warminster’s Whole School approach to education, the role will include working across both the Prep and Senior School, assisting with class-based lessons, Core PE lessons, games and training sessions and fixtures.
The successful candidate will assist and contribute positively to the delivery of high-quality PE, team fixtures and a full co-curricular sports programme to pupils from Years 3-Upper Sixth. Knowledge and experience of coaching and playing in at least one of rugby, netball, hockey or cricket is essential. Specific duties will include:
- Administrative duties within the Sports department as directed by the Director of Sport.
- Classroom-based assistant within the prep school and core/academic PE.
- Leading sports coaching sessions and designing programmes.
- Officiating sports fixtures.
- Working a as resident in one of our boarding houses.
A commitment to the boarding and co-curricular life of this thriving school is essential.
Accommodation will be provided within a Boarding House, linked to this role.
The post also offers the opportunity to gain valuable pastoral experience whilst assisting in the running of a boarding house. This responsibility will include evening and weekend duties during term time for which an appropriate amount of time off will be allocated. Duties will involve supervision of boarders and the overseeing of bedtime and morning routines as well as other duties as directed by the Housemaster/mistress.
Steeped in over 300 years of historical tradition and set in a stunning 60-acre campus in the heart of the southwest of England, Warminster School is truly a community spirited thriving boarding and day school offering an exceptional all-round education to pupils from 2-18. Warminster offers both A-Levels and the International Baccalaureate Diploma at Sixth Form, as well as being one of few schools to offer the IB Career-related programme.
Tour the campus - https://vimeo.com/403546690.
Our application form and Information pack is attached to this advert or check out our website: https://www.warminsterschool.org.uk/welcome/vacancies.
Please contact: David Lyons, Director of Sport on dlyons@warminsterschool.org.uk
for an informal discussion.
Closing Date - Friday 3 January 2025
REMUNERRATION: £12,500pa plus furnished accommodation and full board
We advise that applicants reply promptly as the school reserves the right to make an appointment at any time.
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About Warminster School
Warminster is a co-educational boarding and day school for pupils aged 3 to 18 in the South West of England. Life at Warminster is a busy one, filled with academic and co-curricular activity, discovery and adventure.
Our aim is simple: to inspire a life-long love of learning in those around us. So every day we use our expertise, ingenuity and enthusiasm to do just that. All children enjoy and are good at something; a school's job is to help them find and nurture their talents. Our experienced teaching staff continually encourage academic aspiration and learning. We strongly believe that a passion pursued now will offer untold opportunities for the future.
Every child is encouraged to aspire academically and to enjoy their learning. We are proud that our pupils not only fulfill their academic potential but are challenged to develop an intellectual curiosity and to have lively minds. These are habits that last a lifetime.
Young people today face an unpredictable world but there are certain timeless aspects of a genuine education. We place strong emphasis on character and values and we want our pupils to leave as well-rounded, well-mannered, self-confident, articulate and fundamentally decent people with a sense of duty and integrity.
Pastoral care is the most important aspect of any school: a child who is happy and feels safe can flourish and Warminster is committed to providing a secure and supportive pastoral environment. Living and learning with each other requires good social skills and we also place strong emphasis on the importance of ‘social learning’, along with qualities such as tolerance, patience and compassion.
We offer a wide range of co-curricular opportunities and experiences, and foster a culture of enthusiasm, optimism and ‘getting stuck in’. We prepare our pupils for life beyond school - at university and in the world of work. Most of all, though, we are a community, in which each boy and girl is valued and nurtured on the basis of who they are, whatever their age, natural gifts or background.
The International Baccalaureate Diploma is offered as an alternative to A Levels in our thriving Sixth Form. The Diploma provides a range of academic choices within a challenging and stimulating curriculum, together with a wide variety of practical activities which invite creativity, action and service.
Warminster School is located in the town of Warminster in Wiltshire – a peaceful and attractive rural setting, on the edge of Salisbury Plain. With good road and rail links we are a little under two hours from London by train and within easy reach of Bath, Bristol and Salisbury.
For more information please visit www.warminsterschool.org.uk
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