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Sports Coach

Thameside Primary School, Grays, Essex, RM17 6EF

This job expired on 11 July 2025 – see similar jobs

• Start date details

  September 2025

• Closing date

  11 July 2025 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  3 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £21,985.00 - £25,201.00 Annually (Actual) Thurrock Band C - Point 13-19

Sports Coach job summary

Sports Coach

Salary: Band C Point 13 – 19

(£21,985.75 - £25,201.70 actual salary per annum - depending on experience)

34 hours 10 minutes per week

8:50am – 4:30pm (Monday – Friday) with a 50 minute unpaid lunch break

37 weeks of the year – term time only

Start Date: September 2025

Thameside Primary School wishes to appoint a reliable and enthusiastic Sports Coach to promote PE, school sport and physical activity to raise attainment. The successful candidate will have a specialist coaching qualification relevant to Primary Phase and support colleagues in the delivery of collaborative teaching and learning within and beyond the curriculum. Experience working with pupils in an education setting is essential. We can offer you a friendly and welcoming school community, with well-behaved and enthusiastic pupils, excellent support and training opportunities and a supportive and well-resourced school.

This is a very exciting time to join our school, with us continuously improving, developing and embedding opportunities for creative learning. Our school’s ethos is based on the Co-operative values of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity and sharing a sense of collective responsibility for supporting each other.

This position will involve:

• Planning and delivering PE lessons across Key Stage 1 and 2, including activities such as games, dance, gymnastics, athletics, and outdoor adventurous activities.
• Running before and after school sports clubs and significantly increase student participation in extracurricular physical activities.
• Supporting school sports events by organising and leading sports days, intra- and inter-school competitions, and physical activity festivals.
• Promoting healthy lifestyles and lifelong physical activity among pupils, including targeted programs for specific groups like poor attendees or disadvantaged children.
• Establishing and maintaining community links with local sports clubs to create opportunities for students beyond school.
• Managing equipment and logistics, including risk assessments, transport arrangements, parental communication, kit preparation, and inventory of PE resources.

The successful candidate will be:

• Passionate, creative, motivated and has a positive outlook
• Committed to raising outcomes of all students
• A great communicator with excellent organisational skills and a helpful attitude
• Enthusiastic and committed to working as part of a team
• Dedicated to good classroom management
• Caring towards the welfare and achievement of every child
• Innovative and have a passion for improvement
• Able to multi-task with excellent written skills
• Able to remain calm under pressure and remain positive
• Able to follow safeguarding procedures and prioritise students’ welfare

Thameside Primary School and Nursery is a vibrant and diverse school where children are enthusiastic and motivated to achieve endless possibilities. The children are at the heart of every decision we make to ensure that they are happy, confident and that the opportunities that are provided for them are relevant to their needs both now, and in the future.

Thameside Primary School is a member of the Osborne Co-operative Academy Trust. The Osborne Co-operative Academy Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, with twelve member schools within Essex. All schools in the Trust work in equal partnership and are members of the school’s Co-operative Society. Our Co-operative Values focus on enabling all students to achieve their potential both academically and as young people.

In return for your hard work you will receive:

• Relocation package of up to £8,000 where applicable for new employees renting or buying a property
• 2 week October half term
• Support from highly experienced SLT members, and the wider trust network and collaboration with our other schools
• Support network for all staff including managing workloads and work-life balance
• Career progression throughout the Trust, with the ability to progress in other schools
• Recognition of continuous service 
• Excellent CPD opportunities through the school and the trust
• Fully Subsided Employee Assistance Programme  
• Excellent behaviour management policy to support all staff
• National Conditions of Service
• Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme

If you feel you could make a positive contribution to the school, and you have the passion, drive and commitment to work with us to make all aspects of our school outstanding, please apply now or you can request a visit of the school. For more information speak to Ayshen Uluhan hr@osborne.coop or call 01375 648944.

Thameside Primary School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. In compliance with safer recruitment procedures and guidelines, all applications must be made on our formal application form, CVs will not be accepted. This appointment will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced DBS disclosure and satisfactory references. Osborne Co-operative Academy Trust is an equal opportunities employer. As a Trust, we recognise the value of and seek to achieve a diverse workforce. We welcome applications from all backgrounds.

Please refer to our recruitment & selection policy statement (www.osborne.coop/working-with-us) for more information. If you would like to be considered for this post, application forms are available via our website Osborne Co-operative Academy Trust

Closing date: Friday 11th July 2025 – Midday

Interview date: Thursday 17th July 2025

Please note: we may hold interviews as and when applications are received, and we reserve the right to offer to a candidate prior to the closing date. With this in mind, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Osborne Co-operative Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. This post will be subject to an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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.

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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 Thameside Primary School

• School type: Academy, ages 3 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 856 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 3 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Thameside Primary School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/thameside-primary-school

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