Sports Coach & Learning Support Assistant (LSA)

Thank you for your interest in the position of Sports Coach & Learning Support Assistant (LSA) at Oasis Academy South Bank.

Our Academy opened in September 2013 with 120 students in Year 7 and has grown year on year with our Sixth Form opening in September 2018 and our founding cohort starting prestigious and exciting university courses last September. Through love, nurture and a rigorous academic focus, our vision is to support every child and help them to achieve their full potential, becoming model citizens and future leaders. All students are welcome with us, regardless of starting point, need or complexity. We are totally inclusive and believe that all students here will ‘Climb the STAIRS to Greatness’ and reach our two end goals of getting their dream job and becoming a model citizen. We are unapologetically ambitious for all of our students. We put in place support and stilts to help every student meet our high expectations rather than ever lowering the bar.

We are incredibly proud of everything we have achieved in the last eight years: our dedicated, compassionate and hardworking staff team; our great outcomes and exciting destinations and most of all, the kind, well-rounded young people leaving us who go on to thrive in purposeful and challenging further education.

It is an exciting time to be joining as a Sports Coach and Learning Support Assist at Oasis Academy South Bank. Our students love sports and our PE department is thriving. We offer a wide variety of sports delivered through our excellent core PE programme and extra-curricular sports clubs. We pride ourselves on being inclusive and have football, basketball, cricket teams’ for all students, whilst also competing in annual Athletics, Cross Country and Rugby competitions. We also run lunch time and afterschool clubs such as table tennis, futsal, run club and have the desire continuously grow the sports we can offer at our school. Our annual red-carpet Sports Awards is the highlight of our sporting calendar, and so many moments and individual athletes are celebrated for all their sporting achievements in the year.

We are looking for a Sports Coach and Learning Support Assistant to join a team who are a dedicated and inspiring group of people with a united desire to support our young people. This role will be incredibly rewarding, being a Sports Coach and LSA means that you can build transformational relationships with pupils. We prioritise the professional development of all our teachers and support staff so this role also comes with a commitment to ensure you can grow and develop, with exciting progression for the future and a clear pathway into the teaching profession, should you want it.

We look forward to hearing from you.