Learning Support Assistant/Sports Coach
St Bernadette Catholic Secondary School, Bristol, BS14 9LS9 days remaining to apply
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
9 June 2025 at 9am
Date listed
23 May 2025
Job details
Job role
- Teacher
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subjects
- Physical Education (PE), Special Education Needs (SEN)
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- BG7 S/P 8-11 Term-time only 8.30am-4.15pm (3.15pm on Fridays) (45 min lunch)
Learning Support Assistant/Sports Coach job summary
We are a large, friendly, supportive team looking for an enthusiastic, caring and flexible Learning Support Assistant to provide support for students in our classrooms during the school day and structured wraparound sports activities before and afterschool. This role requires a level 2 coaching award or equivalent.
The role will all involve helping students develop self confidence and resilience, to develop a positive mindset and a greater capacity for learning. You will help the students to build friendships and to become integrated into our school community.
The role will include:
- Supporting students in class by abridging the learning, providing support strategies and helping students to develop skills to overcome barriers in learning
- Providing students with support for their core skills such as numeracy and literacy (either in small groups or 1:1)
- Undertaking 1:1 engagement and confidence building work such as gardening, cooking, crafts.
- Pastoral mentoring, support with mental health and managing emotions.
- Planning and leading engaging sports sessions tailored to the age and ability of participants.
- Organising and overseeing inter-house or inter-school sporting fixtures as appropriate.
- Planning and leading engaging sports sessions tailored to the age and ability of participants.
- Organising and overseeing inter-house or inter-school sporting fixtures as appropriate.
We can offer:
- Happy, friendly and talented students
- A supportive, flexible, inclusive SEN team
- Enthusiastic, committed and friendly staff
- Strong academic results
- A school with strong care, support and guidance
- A wide range of employee benefits including employee assistance programme and counselling sessions, option to participate in the cycle to work scheme, on site free car parking, free annual flu jab
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 are not accepted.
About St Bernadette Catholic Secondary School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 747 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- St Bernadette Catholic Secondary School website
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