Assistant Football Coach
SKILLS
FULL DESCRIPTION
Summary
To offer support to senior members of coaching team and parents in order to provide a fun and friendly coaching environment.
Key Responsibilities/Duties include assisting the senior coach, leading skill-based drills, leading small-sided games, contributing to planning, organization, and delivery of activities, serving as a mini-bus escort, working as part of a team, ensuring health and safety, and supervising the play environment.
Core Requirements/Qualifications/Skills include knowledge of child development, ability to work independently and as part of a team, ability to manage time, knowledge of safeguarding and child protection, experience in managing children's behavior, and commitment to equal opportunities.
Main Responsibilities:
- To assist the senior coach in the setting to ensure its smooth and reliable service.
- To lead a group of children in skill-based drills under the supervision of the senior coach.
- To lead small-sided games in a safe and controlled environment under the supervision of the senior coach
- To contribute to the planning, organisation and delivery of activities, ensuring they are adapted where appropriate to be accessible to all children
- To be the mini-bus escort on a Friday afternoon in taking children to off-site football venue
- To work as part of a team consisting of coaches & volunteers to ensure that the service provided is of the highest quality
- To ensure that all your working practices operate within the organisational health and safety and procedures and to furthermore ensure that safeguarding and child protection policies are always adhered to
- To supervise the play environment to ensure physical, emotional and personal safety for all children/young people attending. This includes keeping records of any accidents or injuries that may occur, and any medication administered
- To ensure that all children and young people are made to feel valued and that they have positive experiences
- To ensure that appropriate equipment is maintained and stored in line with current procedures
- To assist in packing up of equipment, at the beginning and end of each session
P E R S O N S P E C I F I C A TI ON: Assistant Football Coach
Essential
Desirable How measured
(application, assessment, interview)
Qualifications, Education & Training: Level 1 Football Qualification X Application, certificates
Paediatric First Aid Qualification X Application, certificates
Abilities, skills, and attitude Knowledge of the importance of play X Application, in child development (aged 5-15 interview years)
Ability to work independently and as X Application, part of a team interview
Ability to manage time/resources X Application, interview
Ability to monitor and maintain safe X Application, working practices interview
Knowledge of safeguarding and child X Application, protection legislation interview
Experience in managing children and X Application, young people’s behaviour in various interview situations
Understanding and commitment to X Application, equal opportunities interview
Other requirements Commitment to the YMCA’s Aims and X Application, Purposes Interview
Be friendly, flexible, professional and X Application, approachable Interview
DBS check for working with children X Application, and adults at risk interview
Car Driver X Application, interview