Job description
Job Title: Sports Coach
Location: Barnsley
Pay Rate: £460 - £650 per week (depending on experience)
Start Date: Immediate
Contract: Full-time/ Part-time, Day-to-day/ Long-term
Ready to use your coaching experience to support young people both in and out of the classroom?
GSL Education South Yorkshire Branch are looking to appoint a Sports Coach for amazing schools in Barnsley. This is a dual-role position where you will use your coaching skills while also working as a Classroom Support Assistant. Rather than delivering PE lessons full-time, you will help pupils stay engaged with learning, encourage positive behaviour, and provide valuable classroom support throughout the school day. This reflects the intended balance of sports coaching and classroom support responsibilities.
Working as a Sports Coach / Learning Support, you will collaborate with teachers to create a positive learning environment, support pupils during lessons, and use your leadership, resilience, and communication skills to help students achieve both academically and personally.
Sports Coach Responsibilities:
- Support teachers with classroom activities and lesson delivery across a range of subjects
- Deliver one-to-one and small-group learning support where required
- Use coaching techniques to promote positive behaviour, confidence, and pupil engagement
- Assist with classroom supervision and cover when appropriate
- Support pupils with SEN or additional learning needs where required
- Help maintain a safe, structured, and inclusive learning environment
Sports Coach Requirements:
- Previous experience in sports coaching, fitness instruction, youth work, or a similar role
- Experience working with children or young people in school setting
- Strong communication, behaviour management, and relationship-building skills
- Patient, adaptable, and proactive approach to supporting pupils
- Genuine interest in working within an education setting as both a Sports Coach and Classroom Support Assistant
- Enhanced DBS on the update service (or willingness to apply)
To work with GSL Education as a Sports Coach / Learning Support, you should:
- Have the right to work in the UK.
- Have an up-to-date CV with two relevant references from within the last two years.
- Have an enhanced DBS registered to the Update Service or be willing to apply for one through GSL Education.
Please be advised that this role requires a strong knowledge and understanding of safeguarding and child protection and that successful applicants must satisfy all background safer recruitment checks; including providing an enhanced DBS certificate registered on the update service, or completing an application for a new check.
As an ethical, inclusive, and independent recruitment agency, GSL Education are committed to providing quality teaching and support staff in schools throughout South Yorkshire.
For more information or to register your interest in the Sports Coach role, or to be considered, please click apply now to submit your full and up-to-date CV, and one of our dedicated consultants will be in touch.