Competitive Squad Lead Coach

Epsom District Swimming Club (EDSC), based in Surrey, is looking for a Competitive Squad Lead Coach for one of their competitive swimming squads who is enthusiastic, passionate and well organised. The coach will lead their squad and link the development between senior performance swimmers and the development of our junior performance swimmers, leading competitive swimmers and flexibility to work with swimmers aged between 9 and 16 years old. The successful candidate will provide exceptional coaching and have the commitment, management, and communication skills to deliver the aims of EDSC.

The successful candidate will: 

• Be enthusiastic and dynamic and love teaching our younger swimmers.
• Have strong technical coaching skills.
• Provide excellence in coaching through the recognised best practice (in line with the Aquatics GB OADF) that will improve performance outcomes for swimmers at all levels.
• Attend regular competitions in line with the annual competition calendar
• Be well organised via the planning and writing of training sessions for their squad, and working with the Head Coach towards Club goals.
• Help mentor assistant coaches.
• Be able to work well with both our full coaching teams as well as the development hive and performance hive lead
• Have good communication skills with swimmers, parents, coaching team and committee members alike.
• Have strong communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal.
• Set high standards for themselves as well as demanding high standards of others at all times.
• Have the ability to inspire, motivate, develop, and mentor young swimmers across squads, as well as the ability to build strong relationships with the team.

Part time – approx. 11 – 15 hours. There are also opportunities for additional ad hoc coaching requirements, working with our other squads. EDSC is a Swim Mark-accredited club.

The club has approximately 160 swimmers in the competitive squads and is backed by a separate, large, vibrant swim school (Seahorses) with over 900 swimmers, which helps provide a natural feed of talented juniors into the competitive squads. We offer lessons, coaching and competitive swimming for swimmers. Ages start from 3 ½ going through to masters. We are proud of our community spirit and inclusiveness, with swimmers ranging from youngsters in lessons to performance athletes competing at county, regional and national levels. We also support masters’ swimmers, triathletes and open water swimmers. EDSC is a strong and highly successful club and in recent years we have won numerous medals at Surrey Age Groups, plus medal success at the Regional and English National levels.  We participate in the Arena Junior League and Arena League.

We train at pools in and around Epsom.

Only applications with right to work in UK will be considered.

How to apply

Please send your CV to the Chair via the apply button.