Sports Graduate Assistant - Cricket
Lord Wandsworth College
Hampshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- Competitive Salary
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Apply by:
- 2 March 2022
Job overview
Lord Wandsworth College is advertising for four Graduate Sports Assistants to join the Sports Department for September 2022. This advert is for one of those four roles, the specific focus of which can be found in more detail below.
Due to unprecedented success over the past 5 years, demand for places at LWC continues to increase at a rate that is significantly above the national or regional average. Engagement in both high performance sport, and sport for all, remains at the heart of our community and the department is going through an exciting and transformative re-structure as we build towards the future.
This role is an opportunity for a talented Sports Graduate to work as a valued member of the teaching team, whilst also supporting and assisting the academic and boarding provision. As such this is an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in exploring coaching and/or teaching as a career in the future.
The role requires an inspirational coach and mentor to add to the direction of sport at the College, and help both national level performers or those trying a sport for the first time to aspire, improve and excel.
The successful candidate will have a focus on girls’ cricket and girls’ sport in general, alongside the leadership of one or more of the following areas of specialism across our whole school sports’ department:
• Sports Psychology
• Strength and Conditioning
• Sports Scholar mentoring and elite partnerships
• Performance analysis
Situated on a magnificent 1,200- acre campus of rolling countryside, woodland and a working arable farm, Lord Wandsworth College (LWC) provides an inspiring education to approximately 660 boarding and day pupils aged 11-18.
LWC is thriving under the leadership of Adam Williams who became Headmaster in 2015. Its increasing popularity has been reflected in rising pupil numbers, and a transformational vision for education has led to major investment in the campus and facilities. The latest, and most significant, of these capital projects is an £8million state-of- the-art Science Centre, which opened in early 2022.
This is a dynamic and highly successful school on a clear upward trajectory with significant investment in staff professional development too. Furthermore, the College has won three national awards for Wellbeing and Mental health Initiatives in as many years and continues to celebrate record academic achievement and a range of sporting honours at county level.
Appointment process and how to apply
We welcome people of all faiths and those that are committed to these values. We recognise that we have under-represented groups within our workforce. As part of our commitment to diversity and equality of opportunity we are actively encouraging applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBT+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions and those with a lived experience of poverty as well as any other under-represented group in our workforce. We are committed ensuring the safety and protection of our employees from all forms of harm.
For full details and to apply please visit: https://www.lordwandsworth.org/our-community/employment-opportunities/academic
Deadline: 2nd March 2022
Interviews: w/c 7th March 2022
Should you wish to discuss the role in strict confidence please feel free to contact Soma Singh singhs@lordwandsworth.org. Any further enquiries should be addressed to the HR Team on hr@lordwandsworth.org
The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people. The successful applicant will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check and references. We are an equal opportunities employer. Lord Wandsworth College is a registered charity (Number: 1143359) providing outstanding caring education for boys and girls since 1912.
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About Lord Wandsworth College
- Lord Wandsworth College
- Long Sutton, Hook
- Hampshire
- RG29 1TB
- United Kingdom
Lord Wandsworth College is named after Baron Sydney Stern, a Liberal MP and the second son of a Jewish banker. Granted a peerage less than four years after winning the seat of Stowmarket in 1891, Stern took the title of Lord Wandsworth in reflection of his many links with the area. When he died in 1912 he left a generous bequest to educate the children of agricultural workers; children who had lost one or both parents and needed the support of a boarding environment. Lord Wandsworth’s Trustees purchased the site on which the College now stands and the first ‘Foundationers’ arrived in 1922, followed by fee-paying students in 1945. Our site houses the College buildings, our considerable facilities and Stern Farm. This arable farm provides a timely reminder of those early students and of the College’s agricultural heritage.
Today, Lord Wandsworth College is a successful, well-respected boarding and day school for 560 boys and girls aged from 11 to 18. Located in 1200 acres of rolling countryside on the North Hampshire/Surrey border, LWC offers a broad, well-balanced curriculum and an incredible range of sports, activities and co-curricular opportunities. Committed to upholding the wishes of Lord Wandsworth, every year the Lord Wandsworth Foundation offers a number of assisted ‘Foundation’ places to children who have lost the support of one or both parents and would benefit from an outstanding education in a caring, nurturing environment. Our Foundationers come from a very wide range of backgrounds and have faced difficult challenges in their personal lives; we are proud that our Foundation has such a positive impact on them as well as the friends, housemates and teammates who live and work alongside them.
We believe that cognitive ability is not the primary determining factor in the happiness, prosperity and positive contribution to society of our pupils. It is one’s character and application that really shape one’s destiny. At LWC we aim to establish a foundation upon which all pupils feel able to build a full and happy life. We want them to leave school with a better understanding of who they are, their strengths, moral values and aspirations. To achieve this we need to equip pupils with emotional intelligence and literacy, a growth mind-set and a schooling in the characteristics that allow a person to be a good, decent member of society. This is called our character education programme.
Character is who you are. It is what makes you…you. It is what you believe in and how you act with others and when you are on your own. It is your values and your virtues.
Every aspect of the delivery of the curriculum, co-curriculum and pastoral provision endeavours to imbue pupils with the following “moral” character attributes: Fairness, Generosity, Empathy, Gratitude, Loyalty, Courage. Learning and achievement will be rewarded emphasising Perseverance, Self-control, Engagement, Optimism, Curiosity and Creativity. These “performance” attributes are taught, monitored and developed by every member of staff in all areas of school life. By promoting character education, we give our pupils the best chance of realising their full potential.
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