School Sport Coordinator (SSCo) Roles and Responsibilities
An existing secondary school teacher (QTS) released from teaching for time totalling 2 days per week who will divide their time between the secondary school and cluster primary schools to coordinate and develop school sport opportunities and community sport pathways.
Overall Role
- Develop and ensure implementation of after school sport programmes in secondary and primary schools
- Develop and implement intra-school competition in the secondary school
- Use sport to support transition from primary school to secondary
- Work with the PDM and Assistant PDM to recruit, train and deploy coaches to work in school
- Develop links to local clubs and support young people to transition into them
- Find the non-participants in school and develop programmes to engage them
Main Responsibilities and Tasks
Leadership and Management of the Cluster
- Engage and maintain the support of the Head teachers
- Encourage all schools to ensure that young people take part in a minimum of 2 hours high quality physical education, leading to a further 3 hours beyond the school day*
- Develop an ongoing evaluation and priorities document (EPD) that reflects the priorities of the cluster and forms part of the Partnership EPD
- Develop and complete individual Work Programmes (WPs) that refelect primary school Action Plans. Completed WPs sent to PDM and Assistant PDM at the end of every term
- Establish robust data tracking and monitoring systems to help inform cluster priorities
- Fulfil the requirements of local and national data collection processes
- Advocate the role of physical education and sport in raising whole school standards by promoting the successes of their school and cluster's work ensuring it has a high profile
High Quality Physical Education for all Young People
- Identify which schools in their cluster have systems in place to assess if they have high quality physical education
- Work with the PDM and Assistant PDM to signpost support for those schools that do not
Access to High Quality Activities on a School Site
- Determine the cluster's sporting landscape - who are the engaged, the non-engaged and what are their barriers to participation?
- Support their PE Department and their Primary Link teachers (PLTs) to implement appropriately targeted, sustainable high quality Out of School Hours (OSHL) programmes
- Develop intra-school competitive opportunities in their own school and support competitive development in each of the cluster schools
Signpost to High Quality Activities in a Community Environment
- Work with the PDM, Assistant PDM and partners to develop links to local clubs, signpost and support young people's transition into them
Provision for young people to develop their potential
- Identify which young people in their cluster are engaged in competition and determine the barriers for those that aren't engaged
- Work with the Competition Manager (CM) to increase the quality and develop the delivery of competition opportunities for all young people in their cluster
Coaching, Leadership and Volunteering
- Identify which young people in the cluster are actively engaged in coaching, leading and volunteering. determine the barriers for those who aren't engaged, developing a suitable pathway to grow and deploy all young people in high quality coaching, leadership and volunteering roles
- Support the PE Department and PLTs to implement high quality leadership and volunteering development programmes
- Ensure that young people engaged in coaching, leadership and volunteering are reflective of the diversity of the cluster, fully utilising the Step into Sport pathway to support development
- In conjunction with the PDM and Assistant PDM, ensure that coaching, leadership and volunteering development within the cluster is part of a wider strategic, sustainable development process
* 3+ hours is not the sole responsibility of the SSCo/PLT and it is not all expected to happen on a school site during school hours. Rather they should be reaching out alongside the PDM and Assistant PDM to work with community partners ensuring there is coherent access to sport beyond the school day.