Head of Cricket
Nottingham High School
Nottingham
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive plus employee benefits
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 6 January 2021
- Apply by:
- 27 October 2021
Job overview
The Head of Cricket is a long-standing role, supported by a strong interest in the game from the student intake from Reception through to Year 13. The School is ambitious for its most successful cricketers - some of whom go on to play at full County level- while also encouraging of the students who simply want to enjoy the sport at a recreational level. The vacancy provides a great opportunity for an experienced practitioner to build a wide-ranging programme. The scope of the position is extensive, and the successful candidate will bring imagination, innovation and creative thinking. It is a potentially career-defining opportunity for the right person to make a lasting impact on the game.
Within the school, the Head of Cricket will be responsible for leading a programme which will inspire pupils and staff to participate, aspire and excel, both in curriculum Games and the co-curricular programme . This will include establishing, and monitoring, an industry-leading coaching provision, and overseeing all aspects of player – and coach – development in the school. The successful candidate will coach at all levels across the school, inside and beyond the curriculum, and also support the most aspirational athletes in their quest for representative honours. S/he/they will lead from the front. This will include managing the competition programme, and supporting logistics, ensuring that an ambitious, and appropriate, high quality experience is provided for all pupils. (The Head of Cricket will also be expected to contribute to one or more aspects of the school’s Autumn/Spring Term sports programme, in support of the activities of the wider Sports Department.)
The successful candidate will have a significant background – and status – in Cricket, as a player and coach. Experience in schools is desirable, though not essential, as are coaching qualifications, or the willingness to acquire them. The hours will be flexible, reflecting the varied nature of the position, but will involve a strong commitment to after-school, weekend and school holiday activities. Candidates will be expected to work with school teams on every Saturday during term times, throughout the year.
Cricket at Nottingham High School is a wide-ranging project, that extends beyond delivering the school programme. The successful candidate will be capable of wide, strategic thinking resulting in a range of impacts and partnerships that will enhance the school’s reputation in the game, and the community. S/he/they will also ensure that the School's cricketing facilities are used to maximum effect, both by the school’s own students and also by the wider community. Establishing collaborations with other schools, clubs and performance programmes will be an important part of this.
There is an exciting opportunity to introduce new initiatives, and to further develop the game in the area. This will require the Head of Cricket to show a range of skills, including the capacity to build positive relationships with a variety of other stakeholders. Entrepreneurial ability will be important in attracting and developing new cricket activities and competitions at Valley Road and in our sports hall / nets. This includes the capacity to establish, and manage, an extensive programme of outreach activity, in support both of pupil recruitment and of the school’s charitable purpose.
The successful candidate will be a role model for pupils, and an ambassador for the school in the Cricket community. An important requirement of the position will be the ability to establish a positive reputation for the game in the school amongst pupils, parents and the wider Cricket community.
Candidates will be expected to work with school teams on every Saturday during term times.
Our staff benefit from a comprehensive CPD programme as well as competitive employee benefits.
First stage interviews will take place in week beginning 1 November 2021.
The School is working with Independent Coach Education on this appointment. Prospective applicants who would like to discuss this role further should contact Dan Scargill, Recruitment Director, to arrange an informal discussion (dan@independentcoacheducation.co.uk )
For further details and an application form, please see the documents here on TES.com or visit the School website. Please note that if you apply through TES there is no need to send a copy of your application form to the School as well.
Nottingham High School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and any appointment will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure as well as any other pre-employment checks.
Attached documents
About Nottingham High School
- Nottingham High School
- Waverley Mount, Nottingham
- Nottinghamshire
- NG7 4ED
- United Kingdom
Nottingham High School is an independent day school (HMC) comprising of an Infant and Junior School (for ages 4 – 11), Senior School (for ages 11 – 16) and Sixth Form (for ages 16 – 18).
The school was founded in 1513 by Dame Agnes Mellers with King Henry VIII sealing the school's foundation deed in that same year. After more than 500 years of teaching boys, we welcomed girls into our school, becoming a co-educational institution in 2015.
Students come from a wide range of backgrounds and we are committed to maintaining a representative entry, supporting this with generous bursary and scholarship funds for Year 7. Together, these mean that about a tenth of Senior School students receive some form of financial assistance.
The Headmaster, Kevin Fear, has membership of HMC and the Acting Infant and Junior Head, Angharad Simpson, membership of IAPS.
The School has an extensive student catchment and is first choice for much of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Leicestershire.
Teachers at the High School are able to stretch the more able students whilst enabling all to achieve the highest possible value-added results. As well as teaching beyond the requirements of syllabus, there is a strong programme of departmental and School societies and clubs for students of all ages to enrich the curriculum. In addition regular visits are arranged to concerts and plays in the city through the High School Arts Society, offering subsidised tickets.
The High School operates a vertical pastoral system which is recognised as a particular strength. Tutors get to know the students in their charge very well indeed during the course of their school careers.
Music and drama in our own Founder Hall, and sport and outdoor activities (linked with the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme, Combined Cadet Force and our own Scout Group) are enthusiastically supported by students and staff, as is a strong programme of Community Action.
The Concert Band, music groups, choirs, wind band and orchestras thrive, regularly tour overseas and compete with national success in competitions. In recent years, the School has appeared in national finals for cricket, hockey, swimming, orienteering and chess.
The School has its own swimming pool on site, sports ground at Valley Road, ten minutes drive away and our own hockey pitches at Beeston Hockey Centre. There are facilities and coaching available in many other sports and tours are a feature of the major sports.
Our staff are our strongest and most important asset and we want to ensure they are valued, supported and rewarded properly for their work at our school. Our approach to staff well-being and benefits is to ensure accessibility and equity for all staff in our range of benefits and facilities and to foster a warm, collaborative and friendly working environment. In recent years we have focused in particular on the importance of stretch and challenge, meta-learning, interleaving and spacing, as well as the development of blended learning. As a result, we are seeking to employ dynamic, forward-thinking subject teachers who engage with teaching and learning initiatives, are committed to sharing best practice, and willing to adopting new technologies as appropriate.
In 2020 the School was recognised again as a centre for best practice by the Independent Schools Teacher Induction Panel (IStip) following their quality assurance visit. This recognises the high quality of NQT provision at Nottingham High School.
In recent years we have focused in particular on the importance of stretch and challenge, meta-learning, interleaving and spacing, as well as the development of blended learning. As a result, we are seeking to employ dynamic, forward-thinking teachers who engage with teaching and learning initiatives, are committed to sharing best practice, and willing to adopting new technologies as appropriate.
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