Sports Tutor

Sports Tutor

Location: Pilning, Bristol, BS35 4JN 

Salary: £18,080.80 - £28,207.20 (up to UQT6) actual salary, based on experience and qualifications

Hours: 32 hours per week – Term time only

Aurora Hedgeway is a dynamic and inspiring provision for children and young people aged 7-19 with a primary or secondary diagnosis of Autism and related social and communication needs.

We are currently looking for a Sports Tutor. The school supports young people aged 7 - 19 with a primary or secondary diagnosis of Autism and related social and communication needs.

We offer life skills and a wide range of GCSE/ Functional Skills/BTEC accreditations alongside a functional skills/entry level pathway.  Behaviours across the school are excellent.

The role:

As a Sports Tutor, you will lead the planning and delivery of engaging sports and fitness lessons across all classes, helping students develop key physical skills and encouraging a lifelong commitment to healthy living. You’ll set clear development targets, monitor progress, and tailor your approach to meet individual needs, ensuring every student can thrive through physical activity.

Working closely with the Therapy and education team, you’ll support the development of proprioception and extend physical activity opportunities for pupils who need additional support. You’ll also provide both universal and targeted interventions, collaborating with teachers to embed a strong culture of fitness and wellbeing that reflects the vision and values of The Aurora Group.

Key Duties:

• Support learners in setting and achieving targets in their individual learning programmes
• Lead weekly Sports sessions, to include scheme of work, weekly lessons and evaluation plans and end-of-term reports.
• Lead on extra-curricular sports clubs within lunch time and offsite sporting events.
• Deliver a varied programme of sports activities including sessions onsite and at local sports facilities such as local Leisure Centres
• Be responsible for classroom management (of learners and support staff) within your lessons.
• Identify, report and record any safeguarding concerns in line with KCSIE and Aurora’s Child Protection and Vulnerable Adult policies
• Accompany learners to off-site activities, facilitating ease of travel
• Assist the Deputy Headteacher – Curriculum and Assessment, and Class Teachers with monitoring and tracing students’ progress by taking part in assessment and recording of data.

Please see the attached job description for the full breakdown of duties: Sports Tutor - JD 2025

Experience & Qualifications:

• Relevant professional or vocational qualification or substantial experience of working with children and young adults (7-19) with additional needs.
• Experience of teaching or training Sports and fitness lessons within an education system.
• Ability to work as part of a team, with effective leadership skills to support a direct staff within your sessions.
• Experience of working with diverse cultures and of addressing the needs of different sectors of the community.
• The ability to work flexibly under pressure.

What’s on offer?

• Training and Development

Within Aurora, we strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people we support.  We offer wide range of programmes and opportunities to all our employees to improve your skills and further your career. 

• Save money on your bills!!

With the cost of living rising we have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further.  Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are.  You can get deals and discounts to save money on things like your weekly food bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more.  You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme. 

• Competitive Pay and Reward

Every year we compare the market rates of pay and rewards to ensure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations.  We also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Pension and Life Assurance.

• UK Health Cash Plan

This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills.  You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.

• Employee Assistance Programme

Your health and wellbeing is very important to us and we have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7. 

• Refer a friend for £1,000

We’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)

How to apply?

Please complete an online application form in full, remembering to include all employment and education details.  If you need any assistance or would like any more information please contact Karen in the Aurora Group Recruitment Team at  adele.richard@the-aurora-group.com. 

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled. 

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.