Assistant Head of Rowing
Wimbledon High School
Merton
- Expired
- Salary:
- £22,752 - £25,704 p.a. (dependent on experience)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- As soon as possible
- Apply by:
- 1 July 2021
Job overview
This is an opportunity for an experienced rowing coach to play a key role supporting the running of a hugely ambitious, thriving and motivated Boat Club at one of London’s top day schools.
Rowing is a popular sport at Wimbledon High School, with Wimbledon High School Boat Club a key part of the school community and the community on the river! In just five seasons, Head of Rowing Gillian Lindsay (Olympic silver medallist and World Champion) has taken Wimbledon High School Boat Club to great heights, including the winning of silver and bronze medals at the National Schools' Regatta, participation in the Henley Royal Regatta qualifiers and numerous wins in more local events.
The Assistant Head of Rowing will support the Head of Rowing in the over-all running of the Boat Club and with our Junior 13 and Junior 14 rowing programme. They will be responsible for training sessions and will also provide support at competitions.
The ideal candidate will have a sound knowledge of health and safety, on and off the water, with successful experience of coaching rowing within a school as well as experience of rowing at a high-performance level. They will also have excellent knowledge of long-term development practices for young rowers.
About Wimbledon High School
Wimbledon High School is a highly academic school for girls aged 4 to 18, located in the heart of Wimbledon, less than 20 minutes from central London.
Since 1880, Wimbledon High School has been educating girls to go out into the world and make a difference. We’re incredibly proud of that heritage, and the fact that we are a beacon school of the Girls’ Day School Trust.
As part of the Girls’ Day School Trust, the UK's leading network of independent girls' schools, we can offer a variety of benefits, such as:
- Competitive salaries and pay progression
- Access to extensive professional development opportunities
- Training grants for qualifications
- Generous pension schemes
- Free life assurance benefit
- A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
- Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
- A Cycle to Work scheme
- Competitive terms and conditions of employment
For further information and to apply please click the apply button.
The closing date for applications is 1st July 2021 at 9.00am.
Interviews will take place on 5th or 6th July 2021.
The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included.
We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening will apply to this post.
About Wimbledon High School
An academically successful school, with meaningful partnerships placing us at the heart of our community, Wimbledon High School is a hub of intellectual activity, fun and laughter.
We are proudly a flagship school of the Girls' Day School Trust, experts in educating girls, from 4 to 18. We like to challenge and inspire our students through an innovative focus on 'play' in our Junior School and 'playful scholarship' in Seniors, which sees us embrace problem-solving, critical and disruptive thinking and creativity in and out of the classroom. It may seem a contradiction but at Wimbledon High we are as serious about play as we are about academic rigour – and indeed, believe that the one cannot exist without the other. A highly selective school, with outstanding results, our students do nine GCSEs and 3 A levels, giving them time and space to explore around, over and above the curriculum. We go off-timetable one afternoon a week for our partnerships work, which sees over 200 visiting pupils get involved in activities and which was noted as a significant strength of the school in our recent ISI inspection.
A vast array of co-curricular clubs and activities allow students to find their thing: passions and interests that they will take with them through life, as on their journey of discovery about themselves, they learn what is important to them. Excellent pastoral care, under our GROW programme, is embedded in everything we do; we teach girls to believe in their own agency and use their voices for good.
Our school aims:
Stepping in: we aim for every girl to feel known, supported, confident and able to shine at Wimbledon High.
Striding out: we aim for every girl to leave us prepared to shape the society in which she lives and works.
We will do this, across the school by:
· Encouraging resilience, independence and kindness
· Nurturing curiosity, scholarship and a sense of wonder
· Promoting excellent teaching and learning
· Running a broad, inspiring co-curricular programme
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