Graduate / Undergraduate Sports Coach & Boarding Assistant
(Specialism in netball, rugby, hockey, cricket or strength & conditioning – 2 posts)
Warminster School seeks to appoint, from September 2025 to July 2026, an innovative and well-qualified Sports coach to inspire pupils across the age range in the senior school and prep schools (Ages 2-18).
Embracing Warminster’s Whole School approach to education, the role will include working across both the Prep and Senior School, assisting with class-based lessons, Core PE lessons, games and training sessions and fixtures.
The successful candidate will assist and contribute positively to the delivery of high-quality PE, team fixtures and a full co-curricular sports programme to pupils from Years 3-Upper Sixth. Knowledge and experience of coaching and playing in at least one of rugby, netball, hockey or cricket is essential. Specific duties will include:
* Administrative duties within the Sports department as directed by the Director of Sport.
* Classroom-based assistant within the prep school and core/academic PE.
* Leading sports coaching sessions and designing programmes.
* Officiating sports fixtures.
* Working a as resident in one of our boarding houses.
A commitment to the boarding and co-curricular life of this thriving school is essential.
Accommodation will be provided within a Boarding House, linked to this role.
The post also offers the opportunity to gain valuable pastoral experience whilst assisting in the running of a boarding house. This responsibility will include evening and weekend duties during term time for which an appropriate amount of time off will be allocated. Duties will involve supervision of boarders and the overseeing of bedtime and morning routines as well as other duties as directed by the Housemaster/mistress.
Steeped in over 300 years of historical tradition and set in a stunning 60-acre campus in the heart of the southwest of England, Warminster School is truly a community spirited thriving boarding and day school offering an exceptional all-round education to pupils from 2-18. Warminster offers both A-Levels and the International Baccalaureate Diploma at Sixth Form, as well as being one of few schools to offer the IB Career-related programme.
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Please contact: David Lyons, Director of Sport on dlyons@warminsterschool.org.uk
for an informal discussion.
Closing Date - Friday 3 January 2025
REMUNERRATION: £12,500pa plus furnished accommodation and full board
We advise that applicants reply promptly as the school reserves the right to make an appointment at any time.