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Sports Centre Assistant

St George's School, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 4TD

This job expired on 2 June 2024 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  ASAP - Subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks

• Closing date

  2 June 2024 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  17 May 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: £17,324.00 - £17,799.00 Annually (Actual) H3 Grade

Sports Centre Assistant job summary

We require a friendly and flexible person to work with the Sports Centre Manager, as well as the Director of Sports, and assist with the day to day facilitation of all Sports Centre and Lettings activities. This would suit a proactive person, with strong customer service experience and an interest in physical education.

Hours: 26.5 hours per week, 52 weeks a year

Including weekends and evening hours (15:00-22:00/subject to change) during term time and school holidays

Salary: Full-time Equivalent salary: £23,500 to £23,893 per year plus outer fringe allowance of £689 per annum

Pro-rata Salary for part-time hours is approximately £17,324 to £17,799 inclusive of outer fringe per annum

We are looking for someone with:

NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent)

First Aid experience / qualification

Experience of working within a sports centre setting or customer service/lettings environment

Ability to work with various systems and quickly pick up new systems

Interest in health, fitness and well being

In return, we can offer:

Additional training and support

Ongoing professional development

Free Lunch on working days

Use of the school’s fitness suite/Gym

Childcare Voucher Scheme

Staff Wellbeing Programme

Employee Assistance Programme

Free parking on school site

As a permanent member of staff you benefit from the application being favourably ranked if you apply for a day admission place for your child at St George’s school, subject to meeting the requirements of our published Admissions Criteria and Policy.

For further details about this role please see the attached Application Pack.

Applications will be shortlisted throughout the process and we may interview and close the advert early if we are in a position to recruit a suitable candidate. We therefore encourage interested candidates to apply early.

Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS)

St George’s School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and visitors to share this commitment. This post will require a Full Enhanced, with List Checks, Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS).

Online Searches

We are required to conduct online searches about all candidates as part of the selection and appointment process, in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, in order to identify any incidents or concerns which are publicly available online. By submitting and signing your application, you acknowledge that such searches will be conducted as part of the selection and appointment process.

Right to work in UK

We will require you to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. By submitting and signing your application, you acknowledge that such evidence will need to be provided should an offer of employment be made.

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.

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About St George's School

• School type: Academy, Christian, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1384 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: St George's School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-george-s-school-harpenden (opens in new tab)

DO YOU WANT TO WORK WHERE YOU FEEL YOU BELONG?

TEN GREAT REASONS TO JOIN THE ST GEORGE'S TEAM

1. Be part of a vibrant, inspiring and supportive team

2. Everyone’s contributions are valued and encouraged

3. A place where your work will ‘make a difference’ and be appreciated by pupils

4. Learning is what we do; with passion

5. Unique opportunity to work in one of the leading state boarding schools in the country

6. Students champion and promote our community’s high standards and aspirations

7. Excellent behaviour is the norm, not the exception

8. Career development is encouraged and supported through great training

9. A sense of belonging; part of a community and the St George’s ‘Family’

10. Where the worst thing about work is going home at night

Working at St George’s also comes with a number of free additional fringe benefits*: childcare voucher scheme; Employee Assistance Programme; on-site parking; access to excellent sports and fitness facilities and provision of lunch. On-site accommodation for specific posts may also available at reduced rates.

* Staff terms and conditions are liable to review and change from time to time

In 2014 OFSTED wrote that "This school has got the magic formula", and we have to say we agree!

St George’s is a unique place to work. It is the perfect blend of high quality, innovative teaching and a community which cares. It has a highly supportive pastoral system as well as a residential state boarding community, all of which is firmly cemented in our Christian principles and strong commitment to our values of mutual respect, endeavour and sense of community. We hold on to our tradition and embrace the future with equal relish.

St George’s is consistently in the top percentile of schools nationally for academic performance and rated outstanding by Ofsted. However we are not driven by such external measures but by our passion to provide the best learning and life experience we can for the pupils entrusted to our care.

We hope that you will share our enthusiasm and drive to continue to make St George’s an exciting place to work and learn.

Join us for a career at a school that certainly wants us to "Aim Higher".

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