School Programme Practitioners - West Midlands
Roles: Assistant/Trainee Practitioners and Lead Practitioners
Salary: £24,785 - £28,153 per year, reflecting whether you are appointed to an Assistant (trainee) or Lead role
Location: West Midlands Office (B69) and Partner secondary schools across the West Midlands
Application deadline: Rolling applications
Start date: Rolling start dates, agreed with successful candidates
We are looking for Assistant and Lead Practitioners to help young people across the West Midlands feel understood, build confidence and thrive in school.
At Football Beyond Borders, we use young people’s passion for football to build trusted relationships and support their development. Our practitioners deliver engaging sessions in the classroom and on the pitch, alongside pastoral support that helps young people navigate school life.
Our programmes work with both girls and boys. We want young people to build relationships with trusted adults who bring different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives, and who believe in what they can achieve.
You might bring experience from youth work, teaching, mentoring, pastoral support, community sport or football coaching. You might be ready to lead a programme, or looking for a supported route into this work. We’re interested in how you connect with young people, respond to challenges and learn from your experiences.
Before you skim the job description, please remember you don’t have to tick all the boxes to apply. We all experience a bit of imposter syndrome, including the staff here at FBB. If this work matters to you and you believe you could make a difference, we’d love to hear from you.
Who are we?
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Football Beyond Borders is an education charity supporting young people to thrive in school through their passion for football. Established in 2014, we now work with 3000 students across 130 secondary school programmes in Greater Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Lancashire, Yorkshire, London, Kent and Essex. Alongside this, we have built strong partnerships with brands such as Nike.
Young people are at the heart of everything we do. Their experiences shape our decisions, our programmes and our partnerships. We’re working in a system that too often limits their potential, and we know that making a difference means working hard and differently.
We place relationships at the heart of our work. That applies to our colleagues as much as our young people. FBB can be fast-paced and intensive at times, so our working culture, opportunities for reflection and the support we give our staff matter.
We’re also BIG on learning. You will join colleagues who are developing their practice, sharing ideas and learning from each other. Our focus on collaboration creates opportunities to understand and contribute to different parts of FBB as your experience grows.
The roles
We are recruiting at two levels. Both roles involve working directly with young people in partner secondary schools, building relationships over time and helping deliver the FBB Schools Programme.
Assistant Practitioner - trainee level
You will work alongside a Lead Practitioner, supporting sessions and young people’s wider experience of the programme. You will develop your confidence in group work, football-based activities and pastoral support through practical experience, training and feedback.
This could suit someone with experience of supporting young people through employment, volunteering, education, coaching or community work who is ready to develop their practice further.
Lead Practitioner
You will take responsibility for leading programmes, coordinating delivery with colleagues and managing relationships with school staff and families. You will plan and deliver sessions, oversee participants’ progress and provide additional pastoral support including 1:1s, working closely with FBB’s specialist teams.
This could suit someone who already has experience facilitating groups and…