Session Sports Coach (Rowing)
The GORSE Academies Trust
Leeds
- New
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- Salary:
- SO1 (Fixed SCP 23) £17.30 p/h
- Job type:
- Part Time, Casual
- Apply by:
- 31 March 2025
Job overview
Start date to be agreed with the successful candidate
Session Sports Coach (Rowing)
SO1 (Fixed SCP 23) £17.30 p/h
Contract: Casual
The GORSE Academies Trust are seeking to recruit an inspirational colleague to the role of Casual Session Sports Coach (Rowing). This role is of great importance to our work as an organisation. The purpose of this post is to provide exceptional coaching delivery across the rowing programme and to support with the development of an extra-curricular programme of national significance that compliments the ambitions of the Trust ‘Big 3’ initiative.
The ideal applicant will have:
- A relevant level 2 qualification or willing to work towards.
- A full clean driving license and daily access to a car as this role is based across multiple sites.
- Experience of successful coaching at club level.
- The ability to prioritise workloads and manage the allocation of work effectively.
- The ability to form meaningful relationships with young people in the full age range of GORSE academies
What we offer you:
As a trust, we want to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. We are pleased to offer a generous benefits package to our team – as we work together to create a rewarding future for all including:
- Membership to a local government pension scheme.
- Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential professional advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- A commitment to continued investment in our professionals, supporting every member of staff throughout their career in the trust.
- Discounts and online offers at major high street/online retailers.
- £2k Cycle to work scheme.
- On site gym access.
- Opportunities to train and learn from professional S&C instructors.
About us:
GORSE is an outstanding Multi-Academy Trust in Leeds, with over 7,000 students across its six secondary academies and three post-16 colleges. The Gorse Boat Club is open to every student studying at this level.
The Trust is targeting success at National Schools and Henley Royal Regatta. Rowing is a priority sport at GORSE, and this singular focus, together with our large talent pool, makes us one of the most exciting new programmes in junior rowing.
Rowing is now established in all secondary academies and colleges. Until now, GORSE’s rowing programme has been comprised of mainly indoor rowing delivered through the curriculum and after-school clubs. With the opening of our new boathouse this Autumn, we will start the process of progressing our students to the water. We want you to help us realise their potential.
We are blessed with one of the best stretches of water anywhere in the UK. Situated adjacent to Lemonroyd Lock, the new boathouse is just 20 minutes from the centre of Leeds yet set in the city’s green belt. On one side is 1,750m of dead-straight canal; on the other is 10km of quiet, unbroken river. Our fully equipped boathouse and brand-new fleet will provide 64 seats in this first phase of our growth plan. Together with over 150 rowing machines and well-stocked gyms across all academies, there are no excuses.
If you would like to know more about our Trust, please visit our website at www.tgat.org.uk
How to Apply:
If you’re as excited about this role as we are, a Job Description, Person Specification and application form is available to download from The GORSE Academies Trust website (www.tgat.org.uk/jobs), by email to recruitment@tgat.org.uk or by telephone on 0113 487 8888.
If you submit an electronic application, we will not require a hard copy. CVs are not accepted.
PLEASE NOTE: Candidates will be shortlisted and invited to interview while this advert remains live, if a successful candidate is found the advert will be withdrawn. We therefore strongly encourage you to apply as soon as possible so you do not miss out on this fantastic opportunity.
We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to full employment checks, including an enhanced DBS disclosure and barring service check. We promote diversity and aim to establish a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds.
Employment is conditional on confirmation of the right to work in the UK – either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa. If you do not have the right to work in the UK and the role does not meet eligibility for sponsorship, please consider carefully whether you meet the eligibility to apply for this position.
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About The GORSE Academies Trust
- The GORSE Academies Trust
- Bruntcliffe Lane, Morley
- Leeds
- LS27 0LZ
- United Kingdom
GORSE has a well-known reputation for changing the deal for children and young adults who come from some of the most impoverished parts of the country. Our central mission is to ensure that we play a significant role in removing the stubborn link between poverty and academic underperformance. Consequently, our students and our professionals are in the vanguard of the national drive which seeks to prove that where teaching is excellent, leadership inspiring and behaviour standards exemplary all children excel regardless of background.
ALL CHILDREN EXCEL REGARDLESS OF BACKGROUND
Because of the trust’s reputation, we are also seeing the development of a new approach to academisation which is bringing already strong and successful schools forward to convert as new partners within GORSE. Those schools recognise the enormous advantage that comes from belonging to a network of excellence in both leadership and teaching, and we as a trust recognise that there is much to be gained when great organisations are brought together.
WE AS A TRUST RECOGNISE THAT THERE IS MUCH TO BE GAINED WHEN GREAT ORGANISATIONS ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER
Our final aim is to challenge the underperformance of other schools and academies through the excellence of our own work. In particular, we have sought to do this through taking advantage of the free schools programme and our trust will continue to look to develop new schools and to sponsor already existing schools in areas of significant educational underperformance. We believe that all great organisations have a role to play in agitating the system.
OUR SCHOOLS ARE HAPPY PLACES WHERE EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS THE IMPORTANCE OF WORKING HARD AND RECOGNISING THE SUCCESS OF OTHERS.
Our trust is also proud of its generosity in sharing ideas and approaches to the development of teaching and leadership with partners regionally and nationally. We are also humble, and take great enjoyment in learning from others including the very best practitioners nationally and internationally but also those struggling most in their work. This is because we believe that all schools contain areas of brilliance and it is for us as professionals to seek them out, understand their success and ensure that their magic is disseminated.
GORSE, of which GORSE SCITT is a central part, was awarded Teaching School Hub status in 2021. This saw the opening of Leeds Teaching School Hub in September of that year. We were delighted to learn in February 2024 that we have been designated to function as Leeds Teaching School Hub for a further 4 years. That renewed status now means that, as a trust, we have a great responsibility placed upon us to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. The most important single quality that we hope to nurture in all professionals is a passion and love for education and a determination to inspire and support young people, regardless of background.
You can find out more about us, our values and people at www.tgat.org.uk.
Sir John Townsley - Chief Executive Officer.
Leanne Griffiths - Deputy Chief Executive Officer.
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