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Loughborough University National Tennis Academy
Part time and open ended (subject to funding)
Loughborough University National Tennis Academy (LUNTA) is looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, and dynamic Sports Psychologist to support the performance of developing elite junior tennis players as part of the LTA’s Player Pathway. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and delivering a comprehensive Sports Psychology strategy to meet the needs of LUNTA players and coaches to enhance performance in collaboration with the IDT, coaches, and players.
This role is offered part time at 0.6 FTE. However, we will accept applications from applicants who can offer a minimum of 0.5 FTE.
About the programmeLUNTA is a transformational environment for elite junior international tennis players, targeted at developing a greater number of British professional players inside the senior top 100 in both the Men’s and Women’s game. The individualised, pro-style, interdisciplinary training environment tailored specifically to prepare players for the demands of professional tennis supports players between the ages of 14-18 years old (as young as 11 in exceptional circumstances). From August 2024, LUNTA became Great Britain’s only National Tennis Academy for elite junior British tennis players, supporting up to 24 players in pursuit of tennis and academic excellence.
Our philosophy is centred around providing accelerated progress and where whole chapters of development can be turned, as well as pages. Our mission is to develop Great People, Great Performers and Great Tennis Players, through high player-care and valuing the pursuit of excellence. We are a National Tennis Academy aimed at taking players on their journey to the top of U18 International Tennis and supporting their progress beyond through a quality academic experience, coaching excellence, leading performance support and unrivalled training and competition programmes.
More information about our programme can be found on our website.
Roles and responsibilities of this exciting position are as follows:
There will be opportunity with this role to travel to both domestic and international junior and senior tennis tournaments with other members of the LUNTA staff team and our junior tennis players.
Loughborough University is committed to developing staff. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to learn within the Academy, but also utilise skills and experiences of other Loughborough Sport performance and development practitioners to grow and develop.
Skills and experience – what are we looking for?
More detail is provided in the Job Description and Person Specification, and on request. Informal enquiries should be made to Kamlesh Sodha - Head of Performance Support & Strength & Conditioning Lead at k.sodha@lboro.ac.uk
Closing date: Thursday 24th October
Interview date: w/c 28th October/4th November
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