Football Beyond Borders
School Programme Practitioner - North West
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School Programmes Practitioner
Role Description
- Reports to: Head of North West
- Start date: September 2026
- Location: West Midlands
- Hours: Full Time
- Salary: £25,500 - £30,158 (experience depending)
- Deadline: Friday 17th July, 5pm
We are looking for a passionate individual to deliver our intervention in schools. Our model puts young people’s passions and strengths at the heart of their development to help them thrive in school. We need someone who is deeply committed to young people and is energetic, empathetic, and adaptable.
You will be highly motivated, with high standards for yourself and others. We’re seeking someone caring, ambitious, and keen to learn who loves working with young people. You will have a strong moral compass, experience working with young people, and a proven commitment to really make a difference to young people’s lives.
Before you skim the job description, please remember you don’t have to tick all the boxes for the role to apply. We all experience a bit of imposter syndrome, including the staff here at Football Beyond Borders. If this role pulls you and you believe you could make a difference, then apply anyway or reach out to us to discuss more!
Who are we?
FBB is one of the leading educational charities and youth brands in the UK. Established in 2014, we have undergone impressive growth in the past couple of years and are now at an exciting stage of our journey. We currently work with 2000 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 a host of brands such as Nike. In the next stage of our journey, FBB aims to become the leading specialist charity for disengaged young people and the best place to work with young people in the UK.
Young people are at the heart of everything we do. From decisions made at Senior Leadership and our Board, to how we design activations with partners to ensure young people get the most out of them. We’re working in a system that has been designed to limit the potential of many young people, and we know that to make real change, we need to work hard and differently. FBB can be fast-paced and intensive at times, but our focus on working culture and support is prioritised to ensure staff are in a position to ‘Go Beyond’ for young people.
We place relationships at the heart of what we do. That’s not only about our work with young people, but equally important with our colleagues. We strive to do things differently at FBB. We don’t believe that work should be the thing you dread on a Sunday evening. If you’re keen to throw yourself into new environments and develop meaningful relationships with people from all walks of life, then FBB is the workplace for you.
We’re also BIG on learning. This means that we dedicate a full day of everyone’s week to learning and development, during this day practitioners take part in our innovative training programme which includes chances to receive training from external experts, connect with colleagues, and reflect. As a young and ambitious team, we are constantly finding the next opportunities to develop. We like to throw our hat in the ring for things we’ve never tried before. FBB is a place where you can be introduced to multiple different aspects of work: our focus on cross-team collaboration means you'll have the opportunity to work on projects in Brand, Comms, Operations, Culture, and Programmes. We also don’t mind the conventional stuff: there’s an FBB reading list, opportunities for reflection, and external training budgets too!
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FBB is recognised in the sector as innovative and thought-leading. We are always on the hunt for talented and ambitious people to join the team and contribute to our vision of becoming a leader in supporting young people to thrive and become the best versions of themselves.
Key Responsibilities
Role Overview
The School Programme Practitioner will deliver the FBB Schools Programme in partner Secondary Schools across London. This will involve delivering programmes across up to 4 schools. This person will be based in schools facilitating FBB sessions and supporting FBB participants outside of sessions with additional pastoral support including 1:1s and parental engagement.
Main Duties
- Lead on the delivery of up to 5 FBB Schools programmes at our partner schools managing a caseload of 80 students. This will involve delivery of FBB sessions as well as additional pastoral support outside of sessions including 1:1s, parental engagement, and working with staff within the school.
- Lead on the ongoing evaluation and monitoring of individual sessions, participant performance, and programme outcomes.
- Track, draft, and submit progress reports on the students contained in your FBB Schools programmes.
- Manage the team of staff members on each of your FBB Schools programmes.
- Manage relationships with partner teachers and SLT at our partner schools and with participants’ parents.
- Working closely with our specialist therapeutic team to design and develop specific interventions for at-risk students on your programme.
Who will be working with:
The beauty of this role is that you will be working closely with young people on a day-to-day basis as well as staff across various FBB partner schools.
Your key relationships within FBB will be with:
- School Programme Practitioners. On each of your programmes, you will have another practitioner to work with you throughout the day.
- Head of Region. These people are the leaders of the team with a wealth of experience within schools who will support your development.
Development in the Role
In the 2022/23 academic year, we launched a unique frontline development programme which aims to give the best possible training for our practitioners. Every Wednesday practitioners will not be in schools, instead this day is reserved for training. Depending on a practitioner's experience and previous qualifications, they will receive formal training in counselling, supporting young people with SEN, Mental Health, group facilitation, football coaching, and much more. There will be the opportunity for our practitioners to identify a specialist area that they wish to train in so they can lead the organisation in this area. This is a brilliant opportunity to build your skills and expertise in supporting young people. FBB is an ambitious charity with plans for continued growth over the coming years and with that comes opportunities to grow with the organisation and take on more responsibility.
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What development could look like…
Title: Junior Practitioner
- Salary: £28,500
- Role: As a Junior Practitioner, you will lead the staff members. They will hold responsibility for the programme. They will have responsibility for the relationship with the school, running therapeutic mentoring for those students with higher needs, and managing the more junior practitioners they have working with them.
- Training: Either the Base-level training in counselling, SEN, Mental Health, Group facilitation, football coaching, and more OR specialising in a teaching/learning or counselling pathway.
Title: Lead Practitioner
- Salary: £31,000
- Role: Advanced Lead practitioners have responsibility for supporting the development of more junior staff and managing school relationships will be part of the responsibilities. They will also begin to contribute to FBB in their area of specialism (impact team, policy, delivery training).
- Training: Staff will get the opportunity to choose a specialism to pursue at this point.
Title: Specialist / Expert Practitioner
- Salary: £33,000
- Role: At this point, as a ‘specialist’ in their chosen field, they will take on some FBB-wide responsibility for that area.
- Training: During this year, practitioners are encouraged to scale their impact by taking their specialism and contributing to the area of FBB from curriculum design to training to brand to fundraising.
Perks of the Job
- FBB has a significant Learning & Development Budget each year for training opportunities and qualifications.
- FBB has a generous wellbeing budget for staff which they can access for out-of-work activities that support their wellbeing.
- Access to exclusive events and merch through our partnerships with Nike and others.
- Generous annual leave policy with a minimum of 35 days leave per year including a Christmas shutdown.
- Mintago Financial Wellbeing Platform.
- Personalised financial wellbeing support.
- Pension guidance and planning tools.
- Budgeting and savings resources.
- Access to our pension salary sacrifice scheme, helping many employees increase their take-home pay.
- Practical support to help you feel more confident about your finances.
- Staff away days and regular team bonding days.
- Working for a recognised and respected name in the sector which acts as a springboard to future roles.
Person Specification
Experience, Skills, and Knowledge
Important things about you...
- You will be committed to supporting the most at-risk young people in our schools and willing to go beyond for them.
- You have experience of delivering sessions to 10-16-year-olds.
- You will be someone who loves working in a team.
- You will have excellent interpersonal skills, empathy, and emotional intelligence.
- You enjoy working in fast-paced environments and have a hunger to learn.
- You have an understanding of the challenges and different learning needs of adolescents.
- You will be able to build strong relationships with young people built on their assets and passions.
- You can develop strong working relationships with colleagues and teachers within schools.
- You will be able to problem-solve independently and adapt to new situations.
- You are keen to learn and
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