Sports coach

3 weeks ago


Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom CITY OF EDINBURGH COUNCIL Full time
Job Description

Children, Education and Justice Services

Sports Coaches
Various

Salary: £12.76 - 22.26 per hour
Hours: Casual /Relief

The aim of a sports coach is to deliver quality sessions of sport and physical activity to children and young people. Sports coaches should be able to deliver physical activity and sport sessions before, during and after school and in the wider community. A range of opportunities are available at the time of advertising.

Please refer to the attached Job Description for full details of knowledge, skills and qualifications required.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check.  Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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