Job Description

Salary:

Plus board and lodging

Job type:

Full Time, Temporary

Start date:

September 2025 (flexible)

Apply by:

23 May 2025

Job overview

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Resident Graduate Assistant (female) - PE / Sport


(flexible - September 2025 to July 2026)


Are you considering PE teaching, sports coaching or working in a sports-related role with


young people and want to develop your skills and 'test the waters'? Or perhaps you are


considering a year off to try something completely different!


This is an exciting opportunity for new female graduates from September 2025. We are


looking for candidates with a range of sporting interests and specialisms to work within


our PE and Games department for the next academic year. Our major sports are


hockey, rugby, netball and cricket, and an ability to offer one or more of these sports is


essential.


This one-year residential post (can be flexible on start/end dates) provides valuable


support to our PE and Games department, classroom learning and boarding houses, as


well as an exciting and ideal opportunity for graduates who are considering a career in


education to experience a year in the life of our vibrant and successful school.


We aim to offer our Graduate Trainees a memorable year working with energetic and


inspiring students within a co-educational environment. The School will provide


accommodation and utilities throughout the year and free board in term time. You will


also have access to a gym and swimming pool on site, and in this paid role there may


also be opportunities for continuing your professional development, training and


coaching qualifications.


This experience provides a platform for various career progression paths. At the end of


your time at Cranbrook, you will have achieved positive results both personally and


professionally and you will have developed skills and experience of considerable value -


particularly if you decide to continue your career in teaching.


Early applications are encouraged, and we reserve the right to interview and appoint


candidates prior to the closing date, which is midday on Friday 23rd May 2025.


Full details and the application form are on our website: www.cranbrook.kent.sch.uk. For
further information, please e-mail office@cranbrook.kent.sch.uk, or call 01580 711801.
Cranbrook School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.


Appointments are subject to satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS check.


Cranbrook School is an Equal Opportunities Employer

About

Cranbrook School

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Cranbrook School

Waterloo Road, Cranbrook
Kent
TN17 3JD
United Kingdom

+44 1580 711800

Cranbrook School is a mixed state grammar school with 900+ pupils aged 11-18 years, including around 260 boarders. It was founded in 1518. Day pupils come from within 5.28 miles of the school, following a test to judge their suitability for a grammar school education. Boarders are admitted from a wide area, having sat the same test. Although it is a selective school, Cranbrook admits a wider ability range than many other grammar schools. We provide a challenging and supportive curriculum so that students of all abilities are catered for. The value-added scores that are achieved each year bear testimony to the success of our provision.



Pupils join at the age of 11 or 13, and in Year 10 they start GCSEs in nine or ten subjects. Most students then qualify for the Sixth Form, this being supplemented by a healthy intake into Year 12 from other schools. All Sixth Formers take at least three A levels and can choose the EPQ and other qualifications in addition.



For a state school, the facilities are impressive. Within the seventy acres of school grounds are found the six boarding houses, the Queen's Hall Theatre (used for assemblies, school productions, visiting theatre companies and concerts), a large library and lecture theatre. Sports facilities include a large sports hall, dance studio, cardio gym, weights room, heated outdoor swimming pool, squash courts and extensive playing fields and facilities for games - hockey, rugby, cricket, netball, tennis and athletics - as well as an astro-turf pitch. The school also possesses a Performing Arts Centre that houses a drama studio and music practice rooms, and a vibrant Sixth Form Centre. The school boasts an Observatory named after Dr Piers Sellers OBE, an Old Cranbrookian and NASA astronaut.

Head

David Clark

Our Mission

To provide an outstanding all-round education with academic fulfilment at its heart To add value to our local community and provide exceptional boarding for those outside it To develop curious, resilient and empathic young adults, who are confident to follow their own paths

Our Motto

Maiora tento praesentibus aequus


Equal to today, I reach for greater things

Our Values

Kindness Integrity Curiosity Aspiration * Individuality