Sports Coach (HLTA)

Oatlands Community Junior School, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG2 8QP

24 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  1 September 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  6 August 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • HLTA (higher level teaching assistant)
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time, part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £22,263.00 - £23,735.00 Annually (Actual) Band 7: FTE £25,992 - £27,711 per annum

Sports Coach (HLTA) job summary

Full-Time, Term Time Only + training days (39 weeks per year)

Hours: Monday to Thursday 08:30 – 16:45 and Friday 08:30 – 15:30

To support us to achieve our ongoing goals and the very best for our children, we are now seeking a Sports Coach (Higher Level Teaching Assistant) to join our amazing team.

This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual with a passion for sport, physical activity, and children’s wellbeing. Whether you're an experienced HLTA, a PE specialist, or a qualified teacher seeking a opportunity, we’d love to hear from you.

You will join a high-performing, forward-thinking team delivering an inclusive and creative curriculum both in and beyond the classroom. Physical activity plays a key role in our approach to whole-child development, and we are proud of our strong sporting ethos and inclusive enrichment offer. You will play a leading role in shaping and delivering this, empowering pupils to build confidence, develop teamwork, and adopt healthy, active lifestyles.

About our School

Oatlands Junior School is a busy and friendly school with three classes per year group where every child is important to us. We are committed to providing an inclusive, safe, positive, and stimulating learning environment, where excellence thrives through high standards of learning, attitudes, and behaviour. Our collective aim is to ensure that all children strive to achieve and exceed their goals, whilst nurturing a life-long love of learning.

At Oatlands Junior School, children are encouraged to unlock their full potential in a supportive and stimulating environment. We celebrate independence, success, and excellence and above all, we ensure that our children are safe, happy, and eager to learn.

We are also committed to the professional growth of our colleagues. Through Red Kite Learning Trust and the wider Red Kite Alliance, you’ll have access to high-quality development opportunities and the chance to collaborate with like-minded professionals. You’ll also be able to support our wrap-around and enrichment programme, including extra-curricular clubs and events.

About You

To be a great fit for this role you will;

• Hold (or be working towards) a HLTA qualification (or have QTS)
• Have experience working with children and young people, ideally including delivery of PE, sport, or physical activity
• Have experience of leading whole-class sessions (required for HLTA level) and delivering evidenced based interventions and accelerated learning
• Be confident leading whole-class sessions and small group interventions
• Understand the varying needs of pupils and know how to implement inclusive, active approaches to learning
• Be a positive, proactive team player with a genuine enthusiasm for promoting sport and wellbeing across the curriculum

Our ethos, caring about today, creating successful tomorrows, is at the heart of everything we do. Here’s what you can expect when you become part of our team

• Generous pension scheme: Employer contribution rate of 19%, plus a wide range of benefits and discounts. Full details HERE
• Flexible working options: We support work-life balance and are open to exploring suitable arrangements
• Supportive environment: We prioritise respect, equality, diversity, and well-being
• Community culture: Collaboration and generosity are at the heart of our team
• Professional development: We invest in your growth at every stage of your career

For more about Oatlands Junior School, click the ‘view our careers page’ button.

Next Steps

Adjustments: Should you require any adjustments to our recruitment process, please include these within Part Two of our application form under the section ‘Disability and Accessibility’.

Applicant Guidance: Red Kite Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointments will be subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure. We are an equal opportunities employer which welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. We are committed to promoting diversity and want a workforce which reflects the local population of each of our schools. Our recruitment guidelines and privacy notice for applicants can be found HERE.

Closing Date:Monday 1st September

Ready to Apply: If you have all the info you need, click APPLY NOW to start your application.

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 Oatlands Community Junior School

• School type: Academy, ages 7 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 361 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 7 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Oatlands Community Junior School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/oatlands-community-junior-school-harrogate

We are part of the Red Kite Learning Trust family of schools. Thank you for visiting our website which provides a window into our busy world of learning: full of discovery, creativity, friendship and fun.

We are a friendly, welcoming school and enjoy the strong relationships we have with parents, relatives, governors and the PTA, who regularly support learning in the classroom, extra-curricular clubs, trips and fundraising events.

Every child is important to us at Oatlands Junior School. We are committed to providing an inclusive, safe, positive and stimulating learning environment, where excellence thrives through high standards of learning, attitudes and behaviour. Our collective aim is to ensure that all children strive to achieve and exceed their goals, whilst nurturing a life-long love of learning.

At Oatlands Juniors, children play an active role in the life of the school, through the many Pupil Voice groups and even running their own extra-curricular clubs. We are proud of our rich, broad and creative curriculum that encourages our children to be inquisitive, enterprising and independent learners.

Oatlands Junior School is surrounded by spacious, beautiful grounds with fantastic outdoor facilities. We have recently expanded into a full three-form entry Junior school, with two new additional classrooms and Arts Studio. Our running track, is popular with all our children, especially the ‘Daily Mile’ challenge. We work closely with our friends in the local community who support various projects in school. The local allotment group work in partnership with our Eco-Committee to maintain and develop our nature area, which includes a sensory and wildlife garden and Reading Retreat. Our sculpture garden, at the entrance to our school, displays works of art throughout the year in collaboration with local artists. We have been recognised for our high quality curriculum provision through the many awards that we have achieved, including: Arts Mark Gold; Sports Games Gold; Eco Schools Bronze; Healthy School Award Bronze and we are working to achieve the Carnegie Mental Health Award.

Our dedicated staff, parents and governors all work together to make Oatlands Junior School a place where we are all ‘Caring About Today, Creating Successful Tomorrows’.

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