Main tasks
•Deliver the academy’s coaching curriculum including adapting activities aligned with Club’s coaching and playing philosophies
•Work within the coaches’ competency framework and participate in CPD training programmes
•Liaise with Lead Phase coaches within the coaching and Games programme supporting transition from age-to-age groups and phases
•Implement the policies and practices highlighted in the Academy Performance Plan (APP) to ensure that the all aspects meet with desired outcomes
•Comply with the Football League rules in delivering training models and Games Programme in line with EPPP rules and regulations
•Support multi-disciplinary planning integrating other disciplines within the planning and implementation stages
•Meet all EPPP requirements in relation to planning, reporting and uploading data into the PMA either periodically and/or creating annual reporting
•Attend and contribute to Departmental meetings and guide where necessary
Specific tasks & duties
•Support and lead on football activities, including:
•Supporting Lead Phase coaches with regard to periodisation of coaching blocks; game planning and preparation; coaching and game evaluation including post-match analysis (all evidenced within the 0PMA)
•Create and organise individual reviews ensuring that Individual Learning Plans form the basis for reviewing performance in addition to consultation with Science and Education departments in providing holistic individual reviews and plans
•Implement the ‘coaching working week’ within your coaching timetable with regard to ensuring the relevant number of coaching hours are delivered, acknowledging intensities and frequencies, and the management of rest and recovery (plans should demonstrate that multi-disciplinary involvement is included)
•Ensure that 5-hours of CPD is achieved annually in keeping with the maintenance of the UEFA B/A qualification
•Ensure that you actively engage with your individual development action plan in line with the Head of Coaching development framework
•Implement the academy playing and coaching strategies into the Coaching Curriculum and Games Programme
•Support early and late developers and include this aspect within squad management
•Take the responsibility for identifying squad, age and player development by reviewing periodic reports and performance clock data; this process should support and identify potential players moving into schoolboy contract stage
•Work within the player competency framework to determine that players are staying on track with the performance philosophies embedded into the club’s objectives
•Work within the Club’s safeguarding framework (inc. welfare) in ensuring compliance with safeguarding policies, supporting inductions, lifestyle management courses and exit and release strategies
•Ensure that you work within the Club’s Equality and Diversity policy in maintaining equitable practices in supporting and delivering inclusive practices
About The Candidate
Essential
•UEFA ‘B’ Licence
•FA Youth Award inc. Module assessment
•Current DBS certification (Enhanced)
•BFAS certification
•FA Licence Club Member
Desirable
•UEFA ‘A’ Licence
•FA Advanced Youth Award
•Degree in Sport, Sport Science or equivalent
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