History Of Primary Sports:

Primary Sports and Education (Formally Sporting World Sport Services (Devon) Ltd) have been operating in the South West for 10 years and delivering over 500 hours of sports coaching per week. The company is rapidly growing into one of the leading sports coaching organisations in the South West. We also have two sister companies who provide Forest school and Music provision.

We are looking for someone who is highly motivated, a good communicate, is able to work within a team, to organise and manage their own after-school and holiday camps and to promote the company within other local schools and community.

We are looking for an outstanding candidate to join our ever-growing North Devon team. We expect the candidate to be highly motivated, able to work as part of a team, has an outstanding knowledge of School Sport and the new curriculum, is able to use affective behaviour management strategies within their practise, to organise and administrate after-school and holiday camp provision, promote sport within the schools, update our social media platforms on a weekly basis, to promote our company ethos, values and morals to other local schools and within the community. 

Full Time Position available for North Devon

Job Description:

The role is full time working at a number of Primary Schools in North Devon 25 hours per week. Candidates must have at least 2 years’ experience of working within a school environment delivering sporting programmes to primary aged children. 

The successful candidate will be delivering a large number of our programmes including Continued Personal Development (CPD), curriculum time, PPA, extracurricular, Yoga and Wellbeing, Interventions, Active Playgrounds, Gifted and Talented clubs, Holiday camps and our PSHE classroom-based schemes

We also expect the successful candidate to be vibrant, fun, confident, reliable, punctual, well presented, attend all CPD programmes delivered by Primary Sports, follow our schemes our work, to build positive relationships with teachers, children and parents in each of their schools, to organise and run interclass and inter-school tournaments/ competitions, adhere to our company policies, to have experience of coaching SEN children, to make themselves indispensable within their schools, to be able to provide constructive feedback to teachers about the programmes that they will deliver and to discuss the assessments they have created at the end of a unit of work. 

Rates of pay: £12-£15 depending on experience/qualifications and which programme is being delivered. 

Candidates must have:

• NGB Level 2 Qualification 
• Clean driving license 
• Clear enhanced DBS check 
• Level 3 Paediatric First Aid 
• Level 2 Safeguarding and Child protection 
• Prevent training 
• Allergy training 
• Preventing the spread of COVID certificate
• Knowledge of the current National Curriculum (September 2019)
• Knowledge of the current GDPR laws and regulations
• A clear passion for Sport 
• Experience of coaching a wide range of sports to primary aged children 
• Experience of working with SEN children
• Competent in literacy and numeracy at level 3 standard 
• Computer literate in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel 
• Competent in using social media 

How Primary Sports can help you:

• Offer a wide range of CPD courses/ training to develop as a coach 
• Performance-based incentive scheme
• Potential for taking on more active roles within the company
• Work within a positive and supportive team to help develop your personal targets and career
• To work alongside a lead coach for 6 months focusing on the areas of focus set by you. 

Interview Process:

Candidates will be expected to attend a formal interview via Zoom (current situation) and complete a practical assessment. 

Please send through an up to date CV including new references to north.devon@primary-sports.co.uk 

Closing date for the post is Friday 11th December.

Candidates who require more information please contact Jemma or Tia Sloman on the contact details: 

Jemma Sloman - 07531530131

Tia Sloman - 07789954068

Interviews will commence on Monday 13th December 2020 and the successful candidate will be expected to start on Monday 4th January 2021