Job description
Job Title: Sports Coach
Location: Sheffield
Pay Rate: £460 - £650 per week (depending on experience)
Start Date: September 2026
Contract: Full-time/ Part-time, Day-to-day/ Long-term
Could you use your coaching experience to motivate pupils while supporting learning in the classroom?
GSL Education South Yorkshire Branch are looking to appoint Sports Coach for active schools in Sheffield. This is a dual-role position combining Sports Coach and Classroom Support Assistant responsibilities. We are seeking energetic, patient, and proactive individuals who can use their coaching experience to promote positive behaviour, encourage engagement, and support pupils both inside and outside the classroom. The role is designed as a school-based classroom support position rather than a traditional sports coaching role.
The Sports Coach / Learning Support role offers the opportunity to work alongside teachers as a Classroom Support Assistant, helping pupils remain engaged with learning while using transferable coaching skills such as communication, resilience, motivation, and behaviour management to create a positive learning environment.
Sports Coach Responsibilities:
- Support teachers with classroom activities and daily lesson delivery
- Provide one-to-one and small-group classroom support where required
- Use coaching techniques to encourage positive behaviour and pupil engagement
- Assist pupils with SEN or additional learning needs where appropriate
- Help supervise lessons and provide classroom cover when required
- Promote a safe, inclusive, and well-structured learning environment
Sports Coach Requirements:
- Previous experience in sports coaching, fitness instruction, youth work, or a similar role
- Confidence working with children or young people
- Strong behaviour management and communication skills
- Patient, adaptable, and enthusiastic approach to supporting pupils
- Genuine interest in working 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 the 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.