{"id":6287,"date":"2023-05-27T10:30:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T09:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/?p=6287"},"modified":"2025-03-13T09:38:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T09:38:27","slug":"wey-valley-development-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/?p=6287","title":{"rendered":"Wey Valley Swimming Club – Development Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wey Valley Swimming Club, based in Surrey, covering the areas of Guildford and Godalming, are currently in an exciting development phase, seeing many swimmers competing at county level. We are SwimMark accredited, with about 240 members.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The club are looking for a new development coach. The role is self employed, working at pools at Charterhouse School, Godalming Leisure Centre, Guildford Spectrum and Guildford High School Leisure Centre. The successful applicant will report to and work with the head coach in ensuring younger competitive swimmers achieve their goals.<\/span><\/p>\n

Key responsibilities<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u2022 Ensure the safe and smooth running of the Development and Junior sections of the club (focus on ages 8-14 yrs) <\/span>
\n\u2022 Work with the Learn to Swim lead in managing the day-to-day running of the LTS Swim England stages 1-7 across all locations<\/span>
\n\u2022 Ensure the design, communication and delivery of a high quality and inspired teaching standard throughout the programme and act as a role model for other staff<\/span>
\n\u2022 Assist with the recruitment, training and mentoring of the teaching staff and poolside helpers through the provision of regular feedback and on-deck tuition, to continually work towards raising the overall standards of delivery and customer feedback<\/span>
\n\u2022 Coach squad sessions on a regular basis; provide teaching cover as appropriate<\/span>
\n\u2022 Coordinate trials for potential new joiners<\/span>
\n\u2022 Design, coordinate and implement intensive courses wherever possible during the breaks between the normal term times. These may involve running clinics such as diving clinics, nutritional talks and similar courses<\/span>
\n\u2022 Act as the first point of contact for parents\/guardians regarding swimmer progress and progression related queries<\/span><\/p>\n

Experience and qualifications<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u2022 Previous supervisory experience as a coach, assistant coach or within a LTS programme<\/span>
\n\u2022 Ideally a minimum of five years\u2019 experience as a Level 2 Swim England (ASA) swim teacher<\/span>
\n\u2022 Working towards or attained at least Swim England Level 1 coaching qualification<\/span>
\n\u2022 Hold award in lifesaving or equivalent<\/span>
\n\u2022 Experience and\/or knowledge of competitive swimming advantageous<\/span>
\n\u2022 Team player with an ambition to progress coaching capacity<\/span><\/p>\n

Hours<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u2022 Attendance at the Sunday late afternoon\/evening sessions and Wednesdays training sessions and is typically a 6-8hr per week commitment.<\/span>
\n\u2022 Assisting the head coach in delivery of Senior Squad sessions and also playing a part in assisting at competitions<\/span>
\n\u2022 Additional weekly administration and meeting hours as agreed with the head coach<\/span><\/p>\n

Remuneration<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u2022 This is a self-employed post with an hourly rate (to be agreed based on the successful candidate\u2019s experience).<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are interested or would like more information, please email club chairman Martin Greenbank \u2013<\/span> chair@wvsc.co.uk<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Closing date: 30 June 2023<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wey Valley Swimming Club are looking to recruit a development coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vacancies","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6287"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11739,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6287\/revisions\/11739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}