Rowing Coach
The GORSE Academies Trust
Morley, Leeds
- Expired
- Salary:
- Salary is subject to qualifications and experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2018
- Apply by:
- 16 March 2018
Job overview
Rowing Coach
GORSE is an outstanding Multi-Academy Trust in Leeds, with over 6,000 students across its five secondary academies and sixth-form college. The Gorse Boat Club is open to all of its students.
The Trust is targeting success at National Schools and Henley Royal Regatta. Rowing is a priority sport at Gorse and this singular focus, coupled with the scale of our talent pool, makes this one of the most exciting programmes in junior rowing.
Programmes are now established in Elliott Hudson College and The Ruth Gorse Academy and we are expanding to our next two academies in September of this year. The final two schools will be joining the programme in 2019. Our secondary academies will run programmes up to J16 level, with the most capable athletes from each secondary school progressing to the performance squad in Elliott Hudson. All schools in the Trust have their own gym facilities and are no more than 20-minutes from the new £1.1 million Leeds Boat House, where the club’s on-water training takes place.
We now need to add to our coaching staff and are seeking to appoint a second fulltime rowing coach to begin this September 2018. This colleague will be responsible for two schools of their own, as well as working in collaboration with our existing coach. The right candidate will have experience of running a large and successful rowing programme at Junior or U23 level and will relish the challenge of building from the ground up.
If you are interested in applying for this position, please complete the application form which can be downloaded from our website www.tgat.org.uk/jobs .Applications should be submitted with a covering letter to Ben Cox – ben.cox@tgat.org.uk by noon on 16th March. Interviews will take place on 26th March 2018.
Salary is subject to qualifications and experience
If you would like to know more about The Gorse Academies Trust, please visit; https://www.tes.com/jobs/employer/the-gorse-academies-trust-1071685
The GORSE Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of all children and we expect our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to a Disclosure Barring Service Check. We promote diversity and aim to establish a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds.
All staff are required to undertake Child Protection training shortly after taking up post.
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About The GORSE Academies Trust
- The GORSE Academies Trust
- Bruntcliffe Lane, Morley
- Leeds
- LS27 0LZ
- United Kingdom
GORSE has a well-known reputation for changing the deal for children and young adults who come from some of the most impoverished parts of the country. Our central mission is to ensure that we play a significant role in removing the stubborn link between poverty and academic underperformance. Consequently, our students and our professionals are in the vanguard of the national drive which seeks to prove that where teaching is excellent, leadership inspiring and behaviour standards exemplary all children excel regardless of background.
ALL CHILDREN EXCEL REGARDLESS OF BACKGROUND
Because of the trust’s reputation, we are also seeing the development of a new approach to academisation which is bringing already strong and successful schools forward to convert as new partners within GORSE. Those schools recognise the enormous advantage that comes from belonging to a network of excellence in both leadership and teaching, and we as a trust recognise that there is much to be gained when great organisations are brought together.
WE AS A TRUST RECOGNISE THAT THERE IS MUCH TO BE GAINED WHEN GREAT ORGANISATIONS ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER
Our final aim is to challenge the underperformance of other schools and academies through the excellence of our own work. In particular, we have sought to do this through taking advantage of the free schools programme and our trust will continue to look to develop new schools and to sponsor already existing schools in areas of significant educational underperformance. We believe that all great organisations have a role to play in agitating the system.
OUR SCHOOLS ARE HAPPY PLACES WHERE EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS THE IMPORTANCE OF WORKING HARD AND RECOGNISING THE SUCCESS OF OTHERS.
Our trust is also proud of its generosity in sharing ideas and approaches to the development of teaching and leadership with partners regionally and nationally. We are also humble, and take great enjoyment in learning from others including the very best practitioners nationally and internationally but also those struggling most in their work. This is because we believe that all schools contain areas of brilliance and it is for us as professionals to seek them out, understand their success and ensure that their magic is disseminated.
GORSE, of which GORSE SCITT is a central part, was awarded Teaching School Hub status in 2021. This saw the opening of Leeds Teaching School Hub in September of that year. We were delighted to learn in February 2024 that we have been designated to function as Leeds Teaching School Hub for a further 4 years. That renewed status now means that, as a trust, we have a great responsibility placed upon us to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. The most important single quality that we hope to nurture in all professionals is a passion and love for education and a determination to inspire and support young people, regardless of background.
You can find out more about us, our values and people at www.tgat.org.uk.
Sir John Townsley - Chief Executive Officer.
Leanne Griffiths - Deputy Chief Executive Officer.
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