ALL STAFF CRB CHECKED

Apply for a new CRB:

If you aim to earn a living out of working with children then the CRB charge roughly £65 for a check. If you are a volunteer they charge only £17.65. Sporting Dreams can process one for you for a administration charge of £5. You would make one payment to Sporting Dreams and the other to the TMG CRB.

We are looking into cheaper methods of helping instructors get a CRB check and will keep you updated. To apply email your address and details to info@sporting-dreams.co.uk

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT WITH MY APPLICATION:

We can only take on people who are qualified or who have experience unless it is a voluntary role.

Stage 1:

We check you have a valid CRB enhanced disclosure within the last three years.

If you do not have a valid CRB you will not be considered for the position. However you can apply through Sporting Dreams for a new CRB.

Stage 2:

If your application is successful you will then be sent emails and text updates of the details of latest jobs in your location. details of how to apply for the positions will be included in the email. This is usually the stage we will require your CV. Do not send your CV until we ask you to.

Stage 3:

If your application and CV are what we are looking for then you will be contacted lightly interviewed over the telephone.

Stage 4:

If we feel you meet our criteria you will either be invited to attend a formal interview or may be invited to attend a practical interview, whereby we can see you in action with the children. This usally entails you leading a group on 20 to 30 children for a one hour class.

Stage 5:

If you meet our criteria and we feel you are the strongest candidate and your reference check out, you will be offered the position. However if you were unlucky you may be offered another position.

Stage 6:

We will try our upmost to provide feedback about your application but sometimes it is not possible.

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Job Application

Thank you for showing interest in the job position at Sporting Dreams.

1. To apply for a job please send your CV with cover letter to info@sporting-dreams.co.uk. Please state in your cover letter what position you are applying for and your postcode.

-Sports Coach

-Gymnastics Coach

-Dance Teacher

-Drama Teacher

-Music Teacher

-French Teacher

-Spanish Teacher

-Martial Arts Instructor

-Fitness Coach

2. After sending your CV please complete the job application form below;

APPLICATION FORM:

Make sure you complete the sections marked *

Online Job Application Questions:

* Required fields to be filled mandatorily.

* Date:	Eg: dd-mm-yyyy
Where did you hear about the vacancy?:
* First Name:
* Surname:
* What position are you applying for? For example	Sports Instructors Martial Arts Instructors Fitness Instructors Dance Instructors Drama / Musical Theatre Arts & Crafts Activities Music Teacher ICT Teacher Language Teacher / Leader Science Instructor Mathematics Teacher/Leader Literacy / English Teacher/Leader Other
* Do you have a First Aid Qualification?	Yes No
Date of Issue of First Aid
Sports Instructors Tick the activities you are either qualified, experienced or confident in teaching	Abseiling American Football Archery Athletics Badminton Basketball Boccia Canoeing Chess Climbing Cricket / Kwick-Cricket Cross County Running Cycling Discus Throw Dodgeball Fencing Fitness Ciruits Floorball Football Free Running Goalball Golf / Tri-Golf Gymnastics Hammer Throw High Jump Hockey / Uni-Hoc Horse riding Ice Skating Javalin Kabbadi Kayaking Kids quad and moting biking Kids Scooter Stunts Korfball Lacrosse Lazer Shooting Long Jump Multi-Ball Skills Multi-Sports Netball New Age Bowling New Age Kurling Olympic Games Orienteering Pedal Go karting Raft & Bridge Building Roller Skating Rounders / Softball Rowing Rugby / Tag-Rugby Sailing SAQ ladders & hurdles Sitting Volleyball Skateboarding Skiing Snowboarding Swimming Table tennis Teambuilding Tennis Tobogganing Trampolining Ultimate Frisbee Volleyball PE Lessons Athletics Activities Dance Activities Games Activities Gymnastics Activities Orienteering I am a level 3 coach I am a level 2 coach I am a level 1 coach I am a level 1 coach
List what sports coaching qualifications you have?
Please explain your experience teaching sport to children?
Using the following format of a lesson, pick any sport and explain what you would do with 30 children aged 8? 1. Introduce yourself 2. Explain rules & consequences 3. Play a Fun warm up game (10mins) 4. Teach techniques of a skill (10min) 5. Play a fun game using the skill just coached (10min) 6. Play 1v1 games, 2v2 games working up to 5v5 games 7. Cool down 8. Award a child with star performer trophy
Martial Arts Instructors Tick the activities you are either qualified, experienced or confident in teaching	Aikido Boxing Ju Jitsu Judo Karate Kendo Kickboxing Kung Fu Ninjutsu Taekwondo I hold one of the following Martial Arts qualifications, Brown belt, black belt, 1st Dan - 4th Dan.
List what qualifications you have in Martial Arts?
Please explain your experience teaching Martial Arts?
Provide details of a 1hour lesson plan with 30 eight year olds
Dance Instructors Tick the activities you are either qualified, experienced or confident in teaching	Ballet Ballroom Dancing Barn Dancing Body Pop Break Dance Cheerleading Curriculum Dance Dance Aerobics Disco Divali Flamenco Folk Dancing Hip Hop Jazz Latin Dancing Line Dancing Rock n Roll Salsa Street Dance Tap Dancing Zumba
I hold one of the following qualifications in dance; IDTA, NATD, ISTD, BTDA , BBO, RAD , UKA, Degree in Dance	Yes No
Please explain your experience teaching dance?
Provide details of a 1hour lesson plan with 30 eight year olds
Drama Instructors Tick the activities you are either qualified, experienced or confident in teaching	Singing Acting Body Pop Musical theatre
What qualifications do you hold in teaching drama?
Please explain your experience teaching drama?
Provide details of a 1hour lesson plan with 30 eight year olds
Arts & Crafts Instructors Tick the activities you are either qualified, experienced or confident in teaching	Cake decorating Collage Cooking Craft Making Crochet Drawing technique Portraits, Objectives, Shapes Drawing workshop Embroidery Fabric painting Face Painting Flower decorating Gardening I can teach children to work on projects in 2D and 3D and on different scales I can teach children how to mix and use different colours Jewellery projects Knitting Mosaic projects Moulding Clay Needle felting Origami paper folding Paper mache projects Papercraft Printing projects Quilling designs Scrapbooking Sculptures Sewing Projects Surface Decoration Textiles Using Digital media Wire sculpture Wood projects
What qualifications do you hold in teaching art and design?
Please explain your experience teaching art and design?
Provide details of a 1hour lesson plan with 30 eight year olds
Fitness Instructors Tick the activities you are either qualified, experienced or confident in teaching	Body Combat Body Jam Body Pump Boot camp Boxercise Buggy Boot Camp Chair Based Exercise Circuit Training Exercise to music Games Activities HOT HULA fitness I am Personal Trainer I can teach about Nutrition for Physical Activity Indoor Cycling Outdoor Cycling Pole Dancing Pole Fitness Salsa Aerobics Step Aerobics Strength & Conditioning Weight Training Yoga Body Balance Pilates Tai Chi Jukari Fit to flex I am a OCR Level 2 Certificate in teaching exercise and fitness I hold either a Level 2,3,4, Certificate in fitness instructing (awarded by Active IQ, City & Guilds, CYQ or VTCT)
What qualifications do you hold in teaching Exercise & Fitness?
Please explain your experience teaching Exercise & Fitness?
Provide details of a 1hour lesson plan with 30 eight year olds
Music Instructors Tick the activities you are either qualified, experienced or confident in teaching	Percussion Instruments Drums Bongo Drums Maracas Electronic Instruments Keyboard Instruments Piano Stringed Instruments Violin Guitar Wind Instruments Flute Clarinet Recorder Saxophone Trumpet Create musical patterns Help children write music I can teach DJ skills Musical instruments from waste Singing Speaking chants and rhymes
What qualifications do you hold for this role?
Please explain your experience teaching music?
Provide details of a 1hour lesson plan with 30 eight year olds
ICT Teacher Tick the activities you are either qualified, experienced or confident in teaching	I can use SMART boards How to use Word How to use Excel How to use Access How to use Publisher How to use Photoshop How to create sounds & music How to use make short movies How to use take photo's and edit
What ICT qualifications do you hold?
Please explain your experience teaching ICT?
Provide details of a 1hour lesson plan with 30 eight year olds
Language Teacher / Leader Tick the activities you are either qualified, experienced or confident in teaching	Sign Language English Spanish French German Polish Italian Hindi Punjabi
Please explain your experience teaching a language?
What language qualifications do you hold?
Provide details of a 1hour lesson plan with 30 eight year olds
Science Instructor
Please list the kind of science activities you can teach children?
Explain what experience you have teaching children?
Provide details of a 1hour lesson plan with 30 eight year olds
Mathematics Teacher / Leader
Explain what experience you have teaching children?
What mathematic qualifications do you hold?
Provide details of a 1hour lesson plan with 30 eight year olds
Literacy / English Teacher / Leader
Explain what experience you have teaching children?
What literacy qualifications do you hold?
Provide details of a 1hour lesson plan with 30 eight year olds
* How much experience do you have teaching the follow age groups?	4-6 : 7-11 : 12-14 : 14-16 : Adults :
* Do you have a CRB Disclosure within the last 3years?	Yes No
CRB Date of Issue?
CRB Disclosure Number
* If no, would you like to apply for one with Sporting Dreams	Yes No
I would like to apply also for a volunteer role to gain more experience	Yes No Thanks
What grade did you achieve in GCSE Maths :
What grade did you achieve in GCSE English :
What is your highest academic qualification?	None GCSE A Level BTEC First / National Diploma / A-Level / GNVQ 1 or 2year course Higher National Diploma BA Hons (degree) Other
What was the title of your course?
What languages can you speak?	Sign Language English Spanish French German Polish Italian Hindi Punjabi Other
* Date of birth:	Date: Month: Year:
* Age:
* Nationality:
* Do you require a work permit?	Yes No I'm Unsure
* Have you got a work permit?	I don't need one Yes No
* Do you have a Car?	Yes No
Telephone Number:
* Mobile Phone:
* Email Address:
* Confirm Email Address:
* House Number/Name:
* Street/Road:
* Town/City:
* County:
* Country:
* 1st part of the postcode:	EG: LE10
* 2nd part of the postcode:	EG: 1UB
Do you have any medical conditions we need to be made aware of?	Yes No
What medical conditions do you have that we need to be made aware of?
What's the importance of a lesson plan? Tick which ones you think are important	It helps me focus & manage my time So I know what I'm doing and I'm prepared To plan what teaching points to get across To hand to the head teacher to show I am well organised I would complete a lesson plan the day before I am meant to teach
* Would you start the first 3 lessons off by going over the rules, expected behaviour & consequences so they begin to understand how they are expected to behave?	Yes No
What strategies do you use or would you use to get children to stop and listen?	Inform the children at the start of the lesson about my strategies and how they must react Raise your hand in the air and ask children to copy you and be quiet Say to the children raise your arm in the air if you are listening Say Freeze Count down from 5,4,3,2,1 Use a Whistle Say Stop stand still Shout Talk quietly
How would you deal with a child who misbehaves? Tick which actions you would take. Select one option or more	I would give them a warning and tell them not to misbehave and join back in. If they carried out messing about I would make them sit out for 2minutes and then ask them why have I made them sit out. I would then let them join back in. I would make the child sit out straight the way to make an example of them in front of the class so that other children know they won't get away with misbehaving. I would ask the child, why have I made you sit out? I would then let them join back in if they agreed not to misbehave. If I have made a child sit out and they continue to misbehave I would make them sit out again and inform them that I will have to tell the head teacher.
You become concerned about a child who you may think has suffered or is suffering from physical abuse from home or elsewhere, how would you deal with the situation and who would you inform? Tick which actions you would take	I would ask the child is everything ok, do you want to tell me anything? I would ask the child how they got the bruise, wound or why they're upset? I would inform their class teacher and head teacher I would ask the parent what happened
What do children want to get from playing in your lessons?Select one option or more	To have fun To learn To be challenged To succeed
What does a parent want to be ensured of by leaving their child in your care? Select one option or more	That their child is safe Supervised at all times With someone who cares about them Will not be bullied
What do you think a head teacher wants from each of your lessons? Select one option or more	A lesson plan Well organised Rewarding good behaviour and performances with house points Sessions have FUN as well as discipline To follow school procedures and policies
How would you deal with a child with a nosebleed? Select one option	I would ask the child to pinch the soft part of their nose for 10mins and tilt their head slightly forward. I would reassure the child, inform their parents at the end of the session/day and fill out an accident report form. If in school I would send them to the first aid room. I would ask the child to pinch the soft part of their nose for 10mins, sit down and tilt their head back. I would reassure the child, inform their parents at the end of the session/day and fill out an accident report form. If in school I would send them to the first aid room. I would send them to the first aid room to get looked after
What is your understanding of the National Curriculum?
Select what you understand about using Differentiation in your lessons.	To have a plan of making things EASIER for children finding it difficult To have a plan of making things HARDER for children finding it easy
Provide an example of how you have differentiated during your lessons?
Select the actions you would take to carry out a risk assessment and safety recursions.	Check the working area for any potential dangers Find out where the first aid room/allocated first aider is located Ask the school office staff or teacher if any children have any medical or behaviour issues you need to be made aware of Check the children’s footwear and clothing Conduct a registration / count total number in class Find out where fire evacuation points are.
It's Sundays evening (6pm) and your due to start work on Monday morning. You're not feeling very well but you know that it will be hard to find cover at this short notice. Tick which actions you would take	Call or Send a Text to my manager Monday morning at 8.30am and inform them I cannot work. Call my manager Sunday evening and inform them I may be unable to work so can you get cover. I would continue trying to contact my manager if there was no answer or if I left a message to make sure they received my message.
You wake up and get ready to go to work go out and try and start your car but it's not working. It's 8am and you have to be at the School for 9am. Tick which actions you would take	I would call my manager and inform them I can't work. I would try and get a lift to the school from family/friends, otherwise I would get a taxi and sort my car out after work. I would try and fix my car and not go to work
You're on the way to your lesson and your car break's down. What do you do?	I would call my manager and inform them I can't work. I would try and get a lift to the school from family/friends, otherwise I would get a taxi and sort my car out after work. I would try and fix my car and not go to work
Attributes: Explain what you can bring to the Sporting Dreams team:
Criminal convictions: Have you ever been convicted of any criminal offence	Yes No
Employment history: Please provide details of previous employment, include dates.
* References: To support your application we will require two referees.& Ideally previous/present employer.
Referee one:
Name:
Company:
Address:
Telephone:
What is their relation with you?
Referee two:
Name:
Company:
Address:
Telephone:
What is their relation with you?
Equal Opportunities Policy: Sporting Dreams is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All decisions on recruitment are based solely on the merits and abilities of each applicant, regardless of sex, marital status, religion, color, race, ethnic origin or disability. If at any time in the recruitment stage you feel a decision has been taken which discriminates on the basis of the above, you should formally write to the Managing Director of Sporting Dreams who will investigate your allegations.
* Declaration: I confirm that the above information is correct and I understand that any false details given may result in my dismissal. I authorize the representative of Sporting Dreams to contact my references and to check my employment history.