Junior Rowing Coach, PT
Headington School
Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2018
- Apply by:
- 30 May 2018
Job overview
Junior Rowing Coach, PT
Start date: September 2018
Headington is a vibrant and welcoming school set in 23 acres of playing fields and grounds. In an environment where individuals come first, Headington is renowned for its commitment to academic excellence and an impressive range of sports, music and arts. This is a superb opportunity to join our coaching team and to work within a successful rowing programme.
Applicants are invited to apply for a position coaching one of our junior rowing squads. You will be passionate about rowing and ideally possess relevant rowing coaching and first aid qualifications or certificates (training for suitable applicants may be provided). You will have experience of rowing and sculling, be flexible and able to commit to working weekends, before and after school and during holiday periods.
Duties include coaching on week days (3 to 4 week day sessions per week) between 4pm to 6:30pm and Saturdays and Sundays from 8am to 12pm. Coaches will also need to be available for boat club events (Regattas/Head races, camps and meetings) for the duration.
If you are interested in applying for this position please refer to our website: www.headington.org for a job specification and application form.
Please send your completed application form and covering letter to recruitment@headington.org
PLEASE APPLY IMMEDIATELY
Applicants must be able to provide evidence of having the right to live and work in the UK and be prepared to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Headington School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Applicants must undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and DBS and barred lists checks. The School expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Headington School is an equal opportunities employer.
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About Headington School
- Headington School
- Headington Road, Headington, Oxford
- Oxfordshire
- OX3 7TD
- United Kingdom
Headington is a leading day and boarding school for girls aged 3-18, set in a green 23-acre site located a mile from Oxford city centre.
It is a place where girls are given the opportunities to grow and develop their strengths and talents, whatever they may be, partnering academic excellence with superlative pastoral care and extra-curricular activities. While academically selective, girls are selected on potential and many achieve far beyond their predictions on entry. The focus is on providing a well-rounded education, with fantastic teaching and learning complemented by exciting, inspiring and challenging opportunities outside the classroom, and ensuring girls are ready for their future, whatever it may hold.
Headington’s results regularly place it among the top schools in the country at GCSE and A Level. The School offers an extremely broad curriculum, with over 20 subjects to choose from at GCSE and a choice of nearly 30 subjects in the Sixth Form. Girls benefit from proximity to Oxford’s two universities with a wide-ranging programme of speakers, lectures and visits involving experts and specialists from Oxford and Oxford Brookes.
Around 150 different extra-curricular activities are on offer each week, featuring academic enrichment, creative arts, sport, dance, performing arts and leadership and enrichment.
The School is rated excellent in all areas by the Independent Schools Inspectorate. The School, which has over 1,000 pupils across the prep and senior schools, has a thoroughly international and culturally diverse outlook, with more than 45 different nationalities represented. Around one in four of the 800 Senior School girls board and there are opportunities for staff to become involved in the boarding life of the School alongside their day to day roles.
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