Volleyball Coach
The GORSE Academies Trust
Leeds
- Expired
- Salary:
- Subject to qualifications and experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2022
- Apply by:
- 1 December 2021
Job overview
Required to start: January 2022
Volleyball Coach
Subject to qualifications and experience
Contract: 37 Hours Per Week, All Year Round
Subject to a 6-Month Probationary Period
Established in 2016, The Gorse Volleyball Club (TGVC) serves the four primaries, six secondary academies and a sixth form college within The Gorse Academies Trust (TGAT).
With rowing and karate, volleyball is one of the ‘big three’ priority sports at TGAT. All our students have the opportunity to learn and play these sports as part of an extensive curricular and co-curricular programme. We aim to provide as much support as possible to those students who wish to apply themselves and achieve in these sports.
Currently, all students are introduced to volleyball in year 3 as part of the PE curriculum. Years 3 and 4 are taught sitting volleyball, years 5 and 6 progress to standard indoor volleyball. This development is supported by extra-curricular clubs as well as opportunities for top students to compete in the annual Gorse Games competition.
After primary volleyball, students are encouraged to continue volleyball in secondaries through PE lessons, extra-curricular clubs and high performance clubs. Top students go on to compete in The Gorse Volleyball League and the annual secondary Gorse Games. These students are also invited to train and compete at Leeds Gorse Volleyball Club (LGVC).
The Leeds Gorse Volleyball Club has partnered with TGAT since 2016, and provides opportunities for students to compete locally, regionally and nationally. Students are able to follow pathways to Leeds Juniors, Yorkshire Juniors and the England Cadets programme. Collectively, the aim is to enter Gorse student teams into Volleyball England’s U15, U16 & U18 boys and girls national competitions. Our ambition is to win a boys and girls championship title. We are also striving to produce future England players, scholarship recipients and professional players.
The Volleyball Coach will report to the Leeds Gorse Steering Group, which consists of TGAT senior leadership the Partnership Director of PE, Health and Sport, the Head Volleyball Coach, and the Leeds Gorse VC President & Chairperson.
An Application Pack (including Job Description and Person Specification) is available to download from The GORSE Academies Trust website (www.tgat.org.uk/jobs), by email to recruitment@tgat.org.uk or by telephone on 0113 487 8888.
Please note if you submit an electronic application we will not require a hard copy. CVs are not accepted.
Closing date for applications: Wednesday 1st December 2021, 9am
Applications should be returned to: recruitment@tgat.org.uk
Interviews will take place: TBC
The GORSE Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing of all children and we expect our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We promote diversity and aim to establish a workforce which reflects the population of Leeds.
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About The GORSE Academies Trust
- The GORSE Academies Trust
- Bruntcliffe Lane, Morley
- Leeds
- LS27 0LZ
- United Kingdom
GORSE has a well-known reputation for changing the deal for children and young adults who come from some of the most impoverished parts of the country. Our central mission is to ensure that we play a significant role in removing the stubborn link between poverty and academic underperformance. Consequently, our students and our professionals are in the vanguard of the national drive which seeks to prove that where teaching is excellent, leadership inspiring and behaviour standards exemplary all children excel regardless of background.
ALL CHILDREN EXCEL REGARDLESS OF BACKGROUND
Because of the trust’s reputation, we are also seeing the development of a new approach to academisation which is bringing already strong and successful schools forward to convert as new partners within GORSE. Those schools recognise the enormous advantage that comes from belonging to a network of excellence in both leadership and teaching, and we as a trust recognise that there is much to be gained when great organisations are brought together.
WE AS A TRUST RECOGNISE THAT THERE IS MUCH TO BE GAINED WHEN GREAT ORGANISATIONS ARE BROUGHT TOGETHER
Our final aim is to challenge the underperformance of other schools and academies through the excellence of our own work. In particular, we have sought to do this through taking advantage of the free schools programme and our trust will continue to look to develop new schools and to sponsor already existing schools in areas of significant educational underperformance. We believe that all great organisations have a role to play in agitating the system.
OUR SCHOOLS ARE HAPPY PLACES WHERE EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS THE IMPORTANCE OF WORKING HARD AND RECOGNISING THE SUCCESS OF OTHERS.
Our trust is also proud of its generosity in sharing ideas and approaches to the development of teaching and leadership with partners regionally and nationally. We are also humble, and take great enjoyment in learning from others including the very best practitioners nationally and internationally but also those struggling most in their work. This is because we believe that all schools contain areas of brilliance and it is for us as professionals to seek them out, understand their success and ensure that their magic is disseminated.
GORSE, of which GORSE SCITT is a central part, was awarded Teaching School Hub status in 2021. This saw the opening of Leeds Teaching School Hub in September of that year. We were delighted to learn in February 2024 that we have been designated to function as Leeds Teaching School Hub for a further 4 years. That renewed status now means that, as a trust, we have a great responsibility placed upon us to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. The most important single quality that we hope to nurture in all professionals is a passion and love for education and a determination to inspire and support young people, regardless of background.
You can find out more about us, our values and people at www.tgat.org.uk.
Sir John Townsley - Chief Executive Officer.
Leanne Griffiths - Deputy Chief Executive Officer.
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