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Sports Development Centre
Full time and Fixed-Term for 12 months
Loughborough University are delighted to invite applications for an Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach to work with our performance programmes on campus.
The role's main purpose is to deliver Strength and Conditioning support to help optimise the physical preparedness of multi-sport athletes for competition performance.
The main roles and responsibilities for this role are:
- Work closely with the strength and conditioning coach to allocate sports and technical coaches to help achieve performance goals by providing complimentary Strength and Conditioning support to Loughborough University students and external clients as required
- Work effectively as part of an aligned multidisciplinary team (MDT) to help ensure optimal holistic athlete preparedness.
- Help foster professional relationships to promote cross pollination.
- Plan, programme and coach Strength and Conditioning, which is underpinned by sound scientific evidence and practice-based rationale.
- Actively participate in regular internal and external continuous professional development and special projects.
- Provide high impact feedback to promote desirable behaviour change.
- Database and track athlete training to inform future training direction.
- Provide Strength and Conditioning support to external clients as required.
- Practice within the rules of the UK Strength and Conditioning Association Professional Code of Conduct, Standards and Guidelines including promoting adherence to ethical guidelines and regulations with regard to drugs and doping in sport.
Essential criteria includes:
- Experience practicing as a Strength and Conditioning coach, developing athlete physical preparedness for performance.
- Basic experience of analysing the demands of sports and defining and implementing a Strength and Conditioning strategy to support performance outcomes.
- Experience of working as part of a Strength and Conditioning team.
- Experience of working with sports coaches and members of a MDT to promote performance outcomes.
- Demonstrable record of applied Strength and Conditioning continuous professional development.
- Ability to identify key areas of focus, pertaining to Strength and Conditioning, for sports performance and translate into effective operational delivery in terms of planning, programming and coaching.
- Competent at delivering Strength and Conditioning that is underpinned by sound scientific evidence.
- Basic knowledge of other support services and their interplay with Strength and Conditioning within a MDT.
- Basic ability to critically analyse objective date to inform Strength and Conditioning practice.
Please indicate on your application how you meet each essential criteria.
For informal enquiries, please contact Chris Wright, Head of Strength and Conditioning on C.M.Wright@lboro.ac.uk
Application Closing Date: 19 January 2020
Interview date is TBC
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