Hockey Coach

Main Duties

• Plan sessions and offer coaching skills, guidance and advice to hockey players to improve their technical skills and match play skills
• Supervision of pupils ensuring an active and motivational session
• Conduct sessions and supervision within professional boundaries and in compliance with the College’s safeguarding protocols and health and safety regulations

Required Skills

• Suitably qualified/experienced to coach to match standard
• A friendly and encouraging approach within a coaching environment
• Fair and consistent approach in the supervision of pupils
• An understanding and appreciation of safeguarding protocols and H&S knowledge
• Experience of working within a school environment is desirable
• Strong organisational skills
• Excellent communication skills

The selection panel reserves the right to enhance any or all of the desirable criteria to attain a manageable field.

Epsom College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment and attend mandatory training.

• Expected Hours: Term Time: Coaching four afternoons a week expected to be Monday – Thursday 2pm-4pm, Saturday 9-11am. No guaranteed hours of working and such hours will vary depending on the timetable and Games programme. Sessions will be offered that the coach can accept or decline.
• Salary: The rate will be £33.30 per hour coaching and £21.34 per hour when supervising, team managing/umpiring matches/events paid monthly in arrears on 25th of the month following submission of approved timesheet. The coaching rate is not payable on match days/events.
• Holidays: Statutory holiday entitlement is calculated on a monthly basis based on the hours you have worked and have submitted for payment. The calculation is 12.07% of the hourly rate for each hour worked and the amount of holiday pay paid to you for that month will be itemised on the payslip as “holiday pay”.
• Pension: There is an automatic enrolment into the Epsom College Automatic Enrolment Scheme for employees who are eligible. The Scheme is administered by the Pensions Trust. The Employee will be required to contribute a minimum of 5% of Basic Salary and the College will contribute 4% in compliance with current legislation. Eligible employees may opt out of the scheme if they wish.

• Life Assurance: Members who are automatically enrolled or who choose to opt into the College Pension Scheme will be provided with life assurance cover at two x contractual annual basic salary.
• Health Care Plan: Private health care plan offered to staff subject to qualifying conditions;
• Employee Assistance Programme: This includes free counselling and advisory service to employees and close family.
• Health Fitness and Wellbeing: Free use of Fitness suite and swimming pool are available to staff at certain times.

In compliance with safer recruitment regulations, the post will be offered subject to receipt of satisfactory written references, pre-placement medical assessment, proof of appropriate qualifications, a check of online search engines and websites of publicly available information that does not identify the candidate as potentially unsuitable to work within a school setting, a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service and overseas police check if appropriate, as well as confirmation that the successful candidate is able to work in the UK. Prior to interview, an online search of internet search engines, websites and other publicly available and accessible platforms to ascertain applicant’s suitability to work within a school environment will be undertaken on candidates that have been shortlisted. Please note whilst the Enhanced DBS check will be paid by the College if an overseas police check is required it will be at the cost of the successful applicant.

Applicants are required to complete the Application for Employment Form available from our website www.epsomcollege.org.uk. To comply with safeguarding procedures when working in a school, CVs will not be accepted. Applicants should refer to the Recruitment, Selection and Disclosure policy on the College website.