Strength and Conditioning Coach

Overview

Job Title: Strength and Conditioning Coach

Reporting to: Head of Science & Medicine

Location: Worcestershire County Cricket Club, New Road, Worcester, WR2 4QQ

Contract term: 0.5 FTE

Proposed start date: As soon as available

Background: Worcestershire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county cricket clubs which make up the England and Wales Cricket Board. We play to the highest level of professional cricket with a history stretching back over 155 years. Our vision is to become Worcestershire\’s premier destination for live sports, entertainment & hospitality, whilst providing great experiences for everyone who comes to New Road. We are passionate about our people and strive to make our working environment a welcoming and inclusive one, fuelling ambition with opportunities and support to help our people achieve their personal and professional goals. Our values of Trust, Inclusiveness, Kindness, Resilience and Togetherness, resonate across everything we do at the Club and define our culture and behaviours.

Our Women\’s Team: The Women\’s Rapids are a Tier 2 team competing in T20 Women\’s County Cup, Vitality Blast Women\’s League 2 and Women\’s One Day Cup. We also have an exciting pathway where age group players receive coaching and S&C support to aid their development. In this role, you will be the primary lead of S&C for the Women\’s talent pathway and Senior Rapids team, supported by two other experienced S&C coaches who are already employed by the Club. While your main focus will be on delivering care to the Women\’s talent pathway and Women\’s Rapids team, you will also have the opportunity to develop your skills working with our other S&C practitioners with the professional men\’s team and academy.

Purpose of the Role: We are seeking a self-driven individual, eager to expand their expertise by leading S&C services for our Women\’s, talent pathway and Senior Rapids team. This role requires adaptability and responsiveness to daily challenges, balancing work with amateur and pathway athletes while upholding high professional standards across a busy competitive calendar. During the winter, the focus will be on player development, with training held at Malvern College and New Road and other local training facilities, and the role includes evening and weekend work. In-season, you will provide game-day preparation assist in ongoing rehabilitation and programme S&C around a competitive calendar. We value curiosity and initiative, encouraging you to bring forward ideas to enhance service delivery and performance outcomes.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of S&C to the Women\’s talent pathway and Senior squads
• Work collaboratively with Worcestershire County Cricket Club Coaching Staff to design and develop integrated support programmes for individual player performance targets
• Provide specialist S&C input to the physiotherapist to support injury risk management, injury management, rehab and return to performance
• Conduct physical performance testing and profiling of Worcestershire CCC players and be accountable for uploading and storage of testing data to ECB platforms
• Provide nutritional guidance to Worcestershire CCC players supported by the club nutritionist
• In collaboration with the coaching staff help prepare the players on match and training days
• Assist with rehabilitation and planning of rehab as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Attend and contribute to support staff meetings
• Undertake appropriate professional development to keep abreast of best practice and current evidence-based research

Other responsibilities

We expect our people to demonstrate and promote our values at all times to ensure Worcestershire County Cricket Club\’s brand is always held in the highest regard both internally and in public. It is expected that you will:

• Be proactive in promoting inclusiveness across the club and reporting any discrimination that you witness
• Be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk that visit the Club
• Promote a positive environment that is welcoming, friendly and supportive
• Foster a culture of togetherness and commit to contributing to a strong team ethic
• Be passionate about delivering excellent customer service to everyone that comes through our doors

The nature of our work and the size of our team here at Worcestershire County Cricket Club requires everyone to be flexible, motivated and an excellent team player.

This Job Description is not an exhaustive list of tasks but represents the key duties and responsibilities required by the role. You may be required to take on such reasonable additional or other responsibilities and tasks as we need from time to time.

Requirements

Person Specification: It is expected that the successful candidate will fulfil the below criteria:

• Experience of working in a team environment is preferred, however, previous experience of working in cricket is not essential;
• UKSCA accreditation (or equivalent), or able to gain accreditation in first 6 months of accepting role;
• Graduate qualification in Sports Science and/or Strength & Conditioning;
• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary support team and an understanding of the various sports science and sports medicine disciplines;
• Experience of analysing the demands of a sport in relation to the performance outcomes and strength and conditioning requirements;
• Basic anatomical knowledge and an ability to apply this within a strength and conditioning environment;
• Ability to teach barbell lifts, supplementary exercises and ground-based drills including how to correct common faults with appropriate diagnostics and monitoring;
• Ability to construct strength, speed/change of direction and fitness-based training schedules (gym and field based) with appropriate monitoring including a database of work/load;
• Ability to modify strength & conditioning programmes, according to the results of assessments and in conjunction with coaches and other support staff;
• Full Driving Licence is essential, including the means to travel to training and match venues;
• Computer literacy, including Microsoft Office, databases and performance analysis software ;
• Ability to work irregular and unsocial hours, including working outside normal office hours, at evenings, weekends and Bank Holidays;
• A recognition of the importance of promoting and supporting equality, safeguarding and anti-doping within sport;
• ECB accredited first aid training within the past two years (or willing to work towards);
• Ability to work independently and effectively under pressure

This role may involve training, supervising, working with and/or being in sole charge of children and young people. The successful applicant will therefore be required to apply for an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service. A disclosure is an impartial and confidential document that details an individual\’s criminal record and where appropriate gives details of those who are banned from working with children. Having a criminal record will not necessarily be a bar to obtaining a position.

You will need to have the Right to Work in the UK or be able to obtain this by the start date. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Benefits

Hours, benefits and salary: This is a part time role working 0.5 FTE. It will include evening and weekend work.

The salary for this role is circa £12,000 per annum.

Our benefits:

• Contributory pension scheme
• Death in Service Cover at four times your annual salary
• Paid time off over Christmas and New Year
• Paid day off for your Birthday or celebration day of your choice
• Access to Pluxee employee benefits and discount platform
• Employee Assistance Programme and Wellbeing support
• Free city centre parking
• Stunning city centre location with iconic cathedral view
• Complimentary tickets for various Sports venues across Worcester