JOB TITLE : Sports Graduate Coach and Residential Boarding Tutor

LOCATION : Giggleswick School

RESPONSIBLE TO : Director of Sport

HOURS OF WORK : 35 hours per week. Term Time Only

FTE: 0.76 FTE

CLOSING DATE: Wednesday 16 April 2025

INTERVIEW DATE: Week Commencing Monday 28 April 2025

START DATE: 1 September 2025

JOB PURPOSE

The main aim of Giggleswick School is to ensure that sport is enjoyable, whether played at elite or recreational level. All round participation and promotion of excellence helps to engender a culture of integrity, respect and teamwork in our pupils.

The major team sports are rugby, cricket, hockey, netball, cross country and tennis; however, the School also offers facilities and expertise in a range of other sports from swimming, climbing and mountain biking to basketball, athletics and golf. Giggleswick’ s stunning location in the Yorkshire Dales, first class facilities and the qualified and committed coaching staff provide an environment where ability can be nurtured and potential fulfilled.

Giggleswick runs an Elite Sports Programme which covers a range of sports. Here, talented athletes are mentored in a range of areas to ensure they excel in their chosen sport. This encompasses our values in the learner profile and looks at setting the right programmes to balance within their academic commitments.

The school has been highly successful in recent years in a range of sports and often reaches the North/North East finals in boys’ and girls’ hockey, combined with winning major Sevens tournaments in the North. Our cross-country runners perform on the national stage and have represented England in recent years.

Main Duties and Responsibilities
Main duties

Preferred sporting interest areas: Hockey & Netball

Delivering specialist coaching in both the Prep and Senior Schools alongside supporting practical core PE lessons.

• Opportunity to assist with the teaching of PE lessons and GCSE and BTEC practical lessons.
• Coaching and supervising games sessions across all age groups.
• Administrative duties such as confirming fixtures and making catering and transport arrangements; publicising team sheets and collecting games registers.
• Supervising regular evening sessions in the fitness centre or swimming pool.
• Organising and participating in the extensive extra-curricular activity programme, especially for boarders.
• Ensuring appropriate standards of behaviour, dress and attitude of the pupils in their care at all times.
• In addition, the school would hope to provide you with opportunities to observe teaching, participate in team teaching and be involved with other educational activities to broaden your experience.

Pastoral Duties

• All resident staff are attached to a boarding house and undertake one evening duty each week with some weekend duties.
• Resident staff share other duties with Senior House Staff, such as wake-ups, registration etc.
• Staff are expected to support all aspects of the boarding life of the school. This can include making a contribution to the weekend activity programme for boarders on Saturday evenings or Sundays.
• Staff are assigned to a duty team which supervises school duties such as meals and weekend duties (e.g. detention) approximately every six weeks.
• Once a year, staff take part in an Exeat duty team to provide cover for the boarders who remain at School.
• All staff are expected to follow the Staff Code of Conduct and to follow the guidance laid out in all our School policies.

Other

• The School has a regular pattern of assemblies and Chapel services which staff are expected to attend. Staff support students at major School functions such as drama productions, Spring Concert and Sports Day.
• Be fully knowledgeable of the Health and Safety regulations in the area of responsibility.
• Whilst every effort has been made to explain the main duties and responsibilities of the post, each individual task undertaken may not have been identified. Employees will be expected to comply with any reasonable request from the Head to undertake work of a similar level that is not specified in this job description.
• This job description may be amended at any time to include other tasks following discussion between the Director or Sports and the Sports Graduate subject to training where and if necessary.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

The successful candidate should:

• Have a graduate degree, a coaching qualification is desirable.
• Be responsible for coaching and umpiring teams, inspiring them to achieve the highest standards.
• Have the ability and desire to interact with young people and to make a significant contribution to a variety of teaching and extra-curricular activities.
• Be able to enthuse and motivate pupils to perform to the best of their ability.

Personal qualities

• Commitment to and be flexible with the demands of the role.
• Demonstrates fairness and consistency in all dealings with pupils.
• Able to demonstrate the positive values, attitudes and behaviour we expect from our pupils. Reliability and integrity.
• Willingness to contribute to the co-curricular life of the school.
• A commitment to personal professional development and taking responsibility for it.
• A positive motivation to work with children and young people with emotional resilience.

Safeguarding

• Evidence of a commitment to promoting the health, welfare and safeguarding of children.

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, Giggleswick School’s Health and Safety policy.
Employer

Giggleswick School is committed to eliminating discrimination and encouraging diversity amongst our employees. We aim to provide quality and fairness for all job applicants and employees and not to discriminate, or to receive less favourable treatment, on grounds of age, disability, race, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable. Employment decisions will be made on the basis of each applicant’s job qualifications, skills, experience, and abilities. Applicants or employees with questions or concerns relating to discrimination for any of the reasons listed above should contact , Human Resources , hr@giggleswick.org.uk

Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy

School Values

Ensure your work, communication and approach conforms brand values and style of the school. You will need to be aware and comply with the Giggleswick school rules, policies and procedures at all times, as detailed in the handbook you will be provided with at induction.

Job Type: Permanent

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted or free food
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• Gym membership
• Health & wellbeing programme
• On-site gym

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Work Location: In person

Expected start date: 01/09/2025