Job Description
1. Job purpose:
To oversee and deliver the education sessions within the day release programme for
the U13-16 age groups.
2. Duties and responsibilities:
• To be committed to ensuring the safeguarding and welfare of all players,
promoting their well-being needs whilst maintaining professional boundaries;
• To deliver formal aspects of education to all hybrid players who attend day
release within the classroom based environment;
• To provide resources to assist players with school work they need to complete
during their time on day release;
• To monitor progress of work completed by players in the classroom during their
education sessions;
• To provide one-to-one support to players who may need additional
guidance/support on specific school work tasks;
• To liaise with the Head of Education and Welfare on any pastoral matters that
relate to any players on the day release programme;
• To provide updates to the Head of Education and Welfare as to progress in the
classroom in order to help formulate the 8 weekly reviews;
• To complete weekly registers of players that attend day release, detailing the
school work completed during the Education sessions; and
• To complete day release tracking documents in line with requirements in order to
review and analyse specific work completed by individual players.
3. Skills required:
• Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team;
• Ability to work independently;
• Good communication and key internal stakeholders;
• Good listening skills
• Good level of analytical skills;
• Compete tent use of IT programmes including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
and Outlook;
• Ability to solves problems;
• Innovative in thinking and moving the department forward;
• Professional manner; and
• Ability to deal with complex issues in a confidential and discrete manner.
4. Knowledge / Experience required:
• Subject specialist knowledge in Maths or Science;
• Good knowledge of how schools grade/show academic progress of their
students;
• Safeguarding policies and procedures;
• Knowledge of national curriculum for specialised subjects; and
• Knowledge of key education documentation at DFE Level and how this may
impact.
5. Qualifications required:
• Teaching qualification (PGCE/PCERT);
• QTS; and
• Safeguarding Certificate.
DBS check required: Yes (Enhanced)
