Tennis Coach

The role

Coaching players across our programme (juniors, students and adults), providing them with an excellent experience on court every time working with the rest of the coaching team.

This is a 22 hour per week role and the successful coach will work a core work programme on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 4 – 7pm and on Saturday, or Sunday between 9 – 12pm. Time for meetings, admin and planning will be worked flexibly around the core work programme as will 3 hours per week on the University of Bristol Tennis Club (UBTC) and 2 hours helping us further develop our 10&U performance programme.

This is a permanent position in the UOB Tennis Team.

What will you be doing?

The focus of the role will be coaching on our junior programme, leading coaching sessions for children. The coaches are responsible for setting up sessions, registering players, leading excellent sessions every time and working with the wider tennis team on the quality of our programme to make sure all our juniors have the best possible experience and can maximise their potential with us.

2 hours per week will be invested contributing to our 10&U performance programme supported by our Junior Performance Head Coach. Areas of focus will include (but are not limited to):

• Performance player tracker – record player progress, match results and development milestones
• Competition support – identify suitable competitions for our junior players to enter (via their parents) and track results on our performance player tracker
• Oorking with coaches across the programme identify good practice and build it into our scheme or learning with Head Coach Junior Performance
• Player feedback – provide constructive and age / stage appropriate feedback to players

There will also be opportunities to supplement this core work programme on Tuesday and Thursday 9:30 – 11am (adult groups) and with individual lessons (delivered on a self-employed basis).

You should apply if

Our team are incredibly committed, reliable, passionate and knowledgeable and we’re looking for another LTA Accredited, Level 2 or 3 coach to join us on a permanent basis to help us deliver on our programme. If you have experience coaching children (and students – preferable) and are an engaging, passionate and knowledgeable coach we want to hear from you.

Salary £20,000 (for 22 hours per week). Please contact Andy for more details on the salary and other employment benefits (including LTA Accreditation, Coach Education Partner, gym membership and more).

Additional information

Work pattern: Part time (22 hours)

This advert will close at 23:59 UK time on Monday 7th July.

For queries about the role, please contact andy.trott@bristol.ac.uk 

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Available documents

• Further Particulars - Sports, Exercise & Health.pdf
• Job Description - Tennis Coach.pdf

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