Sports Coach
Leighton Park School
Reading
- Expired
- Salary:
- Salary is competitive but will depend on your skills and experience
- Job type:
- Part Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- September 2017
- Apply by:
- 5 June 2017
Job overview
Sports Coach - Monday and Wednesday 13:30-16:30.
Leighton Park School is looking to appoint an experienced Sports Coach with excellent all round coaching skills to support the PE and Games department with the senior games programme.
Leighton Park students play a variety of sports and activities. You will be keen and should be able to give valuable coaching and refereeing assistance in many of the activities offered at Leighton Park School.
Ideally, you will have high level talent as a coach across a range of sports with particular emphasis on netball, hockey, girls' cricket and rounders. You will need to be interested in the welfare and development of students of all abilities, not just the strong and skilled.
Leighton Park School is set in over sixty acres of beautiful parkland near to the heart of Reading. Founded on Quaker values, Leighton Park offers a distinctive atmosphere where we aim to inspire and support each student to prepare for their future by reaching their potential academically and personally. We aim to appoint a candidate who will contribute and thrive in our vibrant community.
To apply, please complete the attached application form or download an application pack from our website and email it to apply@leightonpark.com. If you require further information, please call HR on 0118 987 9600.
Leighton Park School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, therefore the successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check as part of our recruitment process.
Closing date for this position is: Friday 9th June 2017
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About Leighton Park School
Leighton Park School is a successful, forward looking independent (HMC) day and boarding school for approximately 500 pupils aged 11-18 set in 65 acres of magnificent parkland.
Leighton Park exists to form young people of real character and confidence, with a determined desire to change the world, reflecting the school’s Quaker values. In March 2021 we won the ISA Award for Outstanding Local Community Outreach for the involvement of our students, staff and parents in projects helping those less fortunate and putting our Quaker values into practice.
We are a school that inspires Achievement with Values, Character and Community and academic excellence is the consequence of our approach. Valuing breadth and depth, we are distinguished by excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM), Music and Ethical Enterprise. The UK Government’s latest 16-18 league tables reveal Leighton Park to be the best performing School in Berkshire and in the top 1% of English schools. We are one of only eight schools to have always appeared in the top 100.
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