Salary: £13.15 - £20.00 per hour depending on qualification

Hours: Flexible (minimum 1 hour per week)

Contract: Sessional

Closing Date: 28th February 2025

Interview Date: As applications received

Job summary

We are looking for highly motivated coaches to deliver curricular and extra-curricular sessions based in South London. This involves aspects of our successful 'Premier League Primary Stars' and ‘Team Mates’ programmes. Sessions involve the delivery of PE, wellbeing, reading and maths interventions.

What we offer

• Flexible hours (minimum 1 hour per week)


• London Living Wage salary (£13.15 - £20 per hour depending on qualification or responsibility)


• Training and development opportunities e.g Multi-skills qualification and Youth Mental Health First Aid


• Potential to work across different departments across a variety of different sessions


• Become part of a friendly and dedicated team


• Work with the official charity of a Premier League football club


• An opportunity to make a difference in the lives of children and young people in South London.

Job description

As Primary Education Sport and Wellbeing Coach you will:

• Plan and deliver creative, active and engaging PE lessons and extra-curricular clubs

• Plan and deliver various 'PL Primary Stars' sessions including targeted intervention groups, classroom workshops, social action programmes and teacher PE support lessons

• Form positive relationships with all key partners involved in the programme including schools, teachers and parents

• Work collaboratively with the Primary Education team, fellow coaches and other Foundation staff to ensure smooth delivery and growth of our programmes

• Deliver our positive mental health programme, Team Mates, to groups of students in years 6 and 7 in our partner schools, including workshops, assemblies and mentoring

• Support the administration elements of the programmes including data collection and input, updating monitoring and evaluation systems and completing reports for funding partners


• Support at a variety of events throughout the year, including school tournaments and festivals, and holiday courses out of school term

Person specification

The successful candidate will:

• Have experience coaching in a primary school environment, with a proven track record of achievement

• Be an FA or UEFA-qualified coach/ relevant PE qualifications.

• Have good knowledge of sports development and/or school education and mental health related illnesses

• Have the ability to develop and maintain relationships with schools and their staff including head teachers, SENCO and Governors

• Be able to empathise with and give support to participants who may not feel comfortable in learning or sports-related environments

• Be reliable, organised, flexible and willing to learn


• Be available to work at clubs after school hours and ideally some holiday work.

Safeguarding

We are committed to ensuring the welfare and protection of all children, young people and adults at risk who take part in our activities, and we all staff are expected to share this commitment. All successful candidates will go through safer recruitment checks before commencing employment.

Equalities

We endorse the principle of equality and strive to ensure that all our staff and participants have a genuine and equal opportunity to participate to the full extent of their own ambitions and abilities, and can be assured of an environment in which their rights, dignity and worth are respected.

We want our staff to reflect the diversity of our local community, and we welcome applications from individuals of all age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion of belief and marriage and civil partnership.

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.