Community Sports Team Leader

Ivybridge Community College, Ivybridge, Devon, PL21 0JA

14 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  11 May 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  27 April 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £17,285.00 - £17,839.00 Annually (Actual) Devon NJC Grade C (SCP 5-7)

Community Sports Team Leader job summary

Job Title: Community Sports Team Leader

Terms: 25 hours per week, 52 weeks per year - Permanent

Salary: Devon NJC Grade C (SCP 5-7)

Location: Ivybridge Community College

Join our team at Ivybridge Community College as a Community Sports Centre Team Leader and play a key role in delivering an outstanding sport and fitness experience.

Reporting to the Community Sports Development Manager, you’ll act as Duty Team Leader when required, ensuring the smooth, safe, and efficient running of the centre. Based on the gym floor, you’ll lead and deliver engaging fitness classes, motivate and support users, and create a welcoming, high-energy environment that encourages participation and progression.

As a frontline representative of the centre, you’ll provide excellent customer service, handling enquiries in person, by phone, and online with professionalism and enthusiasm.

We are looking for someone with excellent communication skills who can confidently lead groups, explain techniques clearly, and adapt their approach to meet individual needs. The ideal candidate will be both an effective speaker and an attentive listener, able to understand and respond to clients and visitors in a way that fosters an inclusive, supportive, and inspiring sporting environment.

Working for the Trust includes some key benefits, please see our website for full details.

For an informal discussion regarding this role, please contact HR on 01752 691000.

If you believe you can demonstrate the dedication, skills and passion required, we look forward to receiving your application.

Information about our key policies is available at: https://www.westst.org.uk/our-policies (this includes our DBS Policy, Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy, and Recruitment and Selection Policy).

Ivybridge Community College is committed to safeguarding and promoting welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment; therefore, all posts will be subject to a satisfactory DBS Enhanced Disclosure and all other relevant pre-employment checks.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Ivybridge Community College

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 2323 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Ivybridge Community College website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/ivybridge-community-college

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