Company Name:
Blackburn Rovers
Location:
Blackburn
Vacancy Type:
Permanent
Position:
Academy Non-Coaching
Advertising End Date:
04 Dec 2025

About The Role

Job title:

Day Release Specialist Tutor

Department:

Education & Player Care

Based at:

BRFC Academy, BB6 8BA. However flexibility regarding location is required.

Reports to:

Head of Education & Player Care

Responsible for:

N/A

Hours of work:

5 hours per week over 35 weeks per calendar year, plus any additional hours necessary for the performance of duties. This may include evening and weekend work.

1. Job purpose:

To oversee and deliver the education sessions within the day release programme for the U13-16 age groups.

2. Duties and responsibilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • To be committed to ensuring the safeguarding and welfare of all players, promoting their well-being needs whilst maintaining professional boundaries;
  • To deliver formal aspects of education to all hybrid players who attend day release within the classroom based environment;
  • To provide resources to assist players with school work they need to complete during their time on day release;
  • To monitor progress of work completed by players in the classroom during their education sessions;
  • To provide one-to-one support to players who may need additional guidance/support on specific school work tasks;
  • To liaise with the Head of Education and Welfare on any pastoral matters that relate to any players on the day release programme;
  • To provide updates to the Head of Education and Welfare as to progress in the classroom in order to help formulate the 8 weekly reviews;
  • To complete weekly registers of players that attend day release, detailing the school work completed during the Education sessions; and
  • To complete day release tracking documents in line with requirements in order to review and analyse specific work completed by individual players.

 

3. Skills required:

  • Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team;
  • Ability to work independently;
  • Good communication and key internal stakeholders;
  • Good listening skills
  • Good level of analytical skills;
  • Compete tent use of IT programmes including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook;
  • Ability to solves problems;
  • Innovative in thinking and moving the department forward;
  • Professional manner; and
  • Ability to deal with complex issues in a confidential and discrete manner.

 

4. Knowledge / Experience required:

  • Subject specialist knowledge in Maths or Science;
  • Good knowledge of how schools grade/show academic progress of their students;
  • Safeguarding policies and procedures;
  • Knowledge of national curriculum for specialised subjects; and
  • Knowledge of key education documentation at DFE Level and how this may impact.

 

5. Qualifications required:

  • Teaching qualification (PGCE/PCERT);
  • QTS; and
  • Safeguarding Certificate.

 

DBS check required:

Yes (Enhanced)

About The Candidate

5. Qualifications required:

  • Teaching qualification (PGCE/PCERT);
  • QTS; and
  • Safeguarding Certificate.

 

DBS check required:

Yes (Enhanced)


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