The Department of Sports Development & Recreation wish to appoint Community Tennis Coaches to create excitement and sell Tennis to potential players across the county and region.
You will get the opportunity to bring forward the next generation of Team Bath tennis players and support an already thriving Club and Academy Programme within a unique University setting.
A large part of the role will be the delivery of group tennis coaching sessions to players on our community tennis programme. The programme runs for 42 weeks of the year with an additional 10 weeks of holiday camps.
You will have
- a tennis coaching qualification,
- extensive knowledge and experience of mini and junior tennis and/or club coaching
- excellent communication skills
- enthusiasm with a passion for developing young people within the sport of tennis.
Our mandate is to introduce Tennis to all abilities and develop them to a county, regional & national level. We’re looking for someone to actively participate with us in this mission.
About us
The Department of Sports Development and Recreation at the University of Bath seeks to create impact through sport, by maximising its unique environment every day for every customer.
The Department manages and organises a range of activities under the University’s sports brand - Team Bath - and aspires to create a world leading multi-sport environment delivering to elite athletes, staff and students of the University and the local and regional community. Based in the inspiring £35m Sports Training Village, the Department offers a wide range of high quality sports activities, programmes, events, services and facilities catering for all ages and abilities.
In addition, we are recognised by UK Sport as one of only eight Elite Training Centres, providing the training base for around 250 international level athletes. This is an opportunity to become part of a professional and progressive organisation at the leading edge of sport, health and fitness.
Further information
This is a part-time role, working 22.50 hours per week. The majority of this work will be between the hours of 4-9pm (Monday-Friday) and Saturday mornings, but may also include some early morning sessions.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Tom Osborne, Head of Club Coaching, at tao28@bath.ac.uk.
An enhanced DBS check will be required for this position.
What we can offer you
- a very generous employer contributory pension scheme
- generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
- we are a family-friendly University and with an increasingly agile workforce, are open to flexible working arrangements
- an excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
- a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities
Find out more about our benefits.
We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.
We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.
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