Senior Educational Practitioner

About the job: 

The role will be based around the delivery of our FBB Schools programme in partnership with secondary schools across London. This will involve delivery of up to 6 sessions per week along with reward visits. You will be working with inspiring young people who are passionate about football and love being a part of FBB. The FBB Schools programme will involve a combination of classroom based delivery from our project based, football-themed FBB Curriculum and pitch based delivery from our constraints led, game based Coaching Curriculum.

You’ll also support the delivery of our remarkable rewards meaning you’ll need to make room in your diary for trips to Wembley and the Emirates as well as events with leading sportswear brands and Premier League footballers. Additionally, you may be required to deliver sessions online, over the past 5 months our practitioners have delivered via our online platform to maintain the engagement and support to our young people. The successful candidate will have a passion for working with young people, and will have a minimum of two years experience delivering educational sessions to adolescents. Our multidisciplinary delivery team is made up of a combination of qualified teachers, youth workers, behavioural specialists and psychotherapists so it’s likely that the successful candidate will have a background in one of these areas. The key parts of the FBB Schools programme are contained in the final page of this document. Please review this before submitting your application and feel free to contact us if anything is unclear.

About the organisation:

FBB supports young people who are passionate about football but disengaged at school, in order to help them finish school with the skills and grades to make a successful transition into adulthood. We do this by providing long-term, intensive support, built around relationships and young people’s passions, in the classroom and beyond. We are an asset-based organisation with a view that all our interventions must build from a young person’s strengths and passions. We are commissioned by schools to support students who are at risk of exclusion to re-engage with learning and develop positive relationships with peers and adults. We currently work with 1,000 Key Stage 3 students across 45 mainstream and Alternative Provision schools in London, Essex and Greater Manchester. The vast majority of our students are contending with multiple adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and demonstrate insecure attachments behaviours. In keeping with national trends, students eligible for Free School Meals, students with SEMH, and students from Black Caribbean and White British low income families are disproportionately represented amongst our participants.

About you: 

• Experience of delivering educational/ sports sessions to young people aged between 10 & 16
• Experience of measuring student progress & responding accordingly
• An understanding of the learning & behavioural needs of pupils of all academic abilities
• Experience of managing & monitoring the progress of multiple projects/classes simultaneously
• Experience working with adolescents for 2 years.

DESIRABLE 

• Qualified teacher / NQT status
• Qualified FA coach
• Qualifications related to Youth Work and / or Counselling
• Experience of interventions to support young people with social & emotional challenges
• Experience of interventions to support SEND students

CHARACTERISTICS AND SKILLS 

• Ability to build positive rapport & effective working relationships with colleagues, teachers & young people
• Ability to work independently & proactively with minimal supervision
• A hunger to learn & an ability to respond to feedback & learn from your mistakes
• Ability to lead, inspire & motivate
• Willingness to respond to feedback & learn from mistakes
• Passion for social justice & young people

DESIRABLE: 

• An interest in & knowledge of football
• A commitment to using sport as a vehicle to support young people to achieve their goals

Further information and how to apply:

Deadline for the receipt of written applications is 5pm in First week in May.

Please submit a written application form of no more than 1 side of A4 in minimum 11 point font on the following 3 areas:

1. Why you are passionate about supporting young people to achieve their goals both at school and in wider life 
2. Why you want to do this job and work for FBB 
3. How your skills and experience relate to the role advertised

Please also submit your CV. If you have any questions about the role, please contact: recruitment@footballbeyondborders.org Please submit the application and CV to: recruitment@footballbeyondborders.org