Company Name:
Barnsley
Location:
Barnsley
Vacancy Type:
Casual/Sessional
Advertising End Date:
08 Jun 2025

About The Role

Main tasks 
Deliver the academy’s coaching curriculum including adapting activities aligned with Club’s coaching and playing philosophies  
Work within the coaches’ competency framework and participate in CPD training programmes  
Liaise with Lead Phase coaches within the coaching and Games programme supporting transition from age-to-age groups and phases  
Implement the policies and practices highlighted in the Academy Performance Plan (APP) to ensure that the all aspects meet with desired outcomes 
Comply with the Football League rules in delivering training models and Games Programme in line with EPPP rules and regulations 
Support multi-disciplinary planning integrating other disciplines within the planning and implementation stages  
Meet all EPPP requirements in relation to planning, reporting and uploading data into the PMA either periodically and/or creating annual reporting 
Attend and contribute to Departmental meetings and guide where necessary 

Specific tasks & duties
Support and lead on football activities, including: 
Supporting Lead Phase coaches with regard to periodisation of coaching blocks; game planning and preparation; coaching and game evaluation including post-match analysis (all evidenced within the 0PMA)  
Create and organise individual reviews ensuring that Individual Learning Plans form the basis for reviewing performance in addition to consultation with Science and Education departments in providing holistic individual reviews and plans 
Implement the ‘coaching working week’ within your coaching timetable with regard to ensuring the relevant number of coaching hours are delivered, acknowledging intensities and frequencies, and the management of rest and recovery (plans should demonstrate that multi-disciplinary involvement is included) 
Ensure that 5-hours of CPD is achieved annually in keeping with the maintenance of the UEFA B/A qualification 
Ensure that you actively engage with your individual development action plan in line with the Head of Coaching development framework  
Implement the academy playing and coaching strategies into the Coaching Curriculum and Games Programme 
Support early and late developers and include this aspect within squad management  
Take the responsibility for identifying squad, age and player development by reviewing periodic reports and performance clock data; this process should support and identify potential players moving into schoolboy contract stage 
Work within the player competency framework to determine that players are staying on track with the performance philosophies embedded into the club’s objectives 
Work within the Club’s safeguarding framework (inc. welfare) in ensuring compliance with safeguarding policies, supporting inductions, lifestyle management courses and exit and release strategies 
Ensure that you work within the Club’s Equality and Diversity policy in maintaining equitable practices in supporting and delivering inclusive practices 

About The Candidate

Essential 
UEFA ‘B’ Licence  
FA Youth Award inc. Module assessment 
Current DBS certification (Enhanced) 
BFAS certification  
FA Licence Club Member  
 
Desirable 
UEFA ‘A’ Licence 
FA Advanced Youth Award 
Degree in Sport, Sport Science or equivalent  

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