Vacancies: Accommodation Host Opportunities
Contract type: Contractor
Location: Ideally within a 5-mile radius of S47DR, with good transport links to Shirecliffe and Sheffield city centre.
Line Manager: Head of Safeguarding
Post Reference: AC2024-CAH
Sheffield United Academy seeks dedicated host families to provide comfortable and supportive homes for our young professional football apprentices.
Responsibilities
- Provide supervision and support for young players, subject to an Enhanced criminal record check.
- Provision of accommodation for a full season for signed scholars and ad hoc weeks for trialists; may be required 7 days per week dependent on players’ home address.
- Provide an appropriate level of supervision and support based on the player’s age.
- Ensure each player has a semi‑furnished room with bed, storage and access to laundry facilities from Monday to Friday.
- Provide nutritious breakfast, evening meal and/or lunch/snacks as required, with nutritional guidance provided by the Club.
- Provide Wi‑Fi access.
- Adhere to safeguarding procedures for players under 18 and report any safeguarding or discrimination concerns.
- Attend meetings as required to support the players.
- Notify the Club in the event of any incident impacting suitability to supervise children, young or vulnerable adults.
- Allow premises to be risk‑assessed/audited by the Club’s Health and Safety Manager and comply with any subsequent actions.
- Participate in training as directed by the Club.
Additional Requirements
- Post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974; applicant must disclose all convictions, including spent convictions.
- Two written references required.
- Legal right to work in the UK must be verified before commencing work.
Equality and Diversity
Sheffield United FC is committed to equal opportunity and designs its recruitment policies to ensure no applicant receives less favourable treatment on the basis of race, colour, nationality, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age, ethnic and national origin, disability or gender reassignment. The Club is a Disability Confident Employer and welcomes applications from disabled persons.
Safer Recruitment
Recruitment is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk. The successful applicant will be required to undertake appropriate safeguarding checks and provide proof of right to work in the UK. For more information, see the Club’s Safeguarding Statement.
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