Wakefield Trinity RLFC competes in the elite Super League competition. As a founding member of rugby league, the club has a distinguished history, with significant success through the late 1960s, and is now entering an exciting new era.
Deeply embedded in the community, Wakefield Trinity is the city’s leading professional sports club. The organisation operates as a fully integrated pathway, connecting our men’s and women’s first teams with our reserve, academy, and scholarship programmes.
Job Title – Head Of Youth Athletic Development
Reporting to the Head of Strength and Conditioning and Head of Youth. You would be responsible for delivering a world class strength and conditioning program for the reserve and academy team. The role would also see you oversee all strength and conditioning requirements for the scholarship team.
Roles & Responsibilities
- To plan, manage and implement the reserve and academy teams’ strength and conditioning programme and provide support and guidance to the scholarship programme.
- Deliver a world-class strength and conditioning programme targeted for the demands of playing super league, with individual needs taken into account. To include both gym and field work.
- Provide supervision and guidance in practical gym settings to ensure correct execution is being met for the needs of all individual players. To both prevent injury and improve performance.
- To aid with on field training sessions and assist where needed.
- Oversee the GPS data collection and use of this data to build effective and appropriate load management for each players programming.
- Record plans and report on progress using Team Builder and any other databases system in use.
- Endorse a ‘Return to Perform’ approach to injury management that considers both the physical and psychological demands of rugby league.
- In conjunction with the clubs testing procedures and assessments build and monitor individual player progress to be use in quarterly assessments and meetings.
- Work collaboratively with coaches and medical staff to ensure performance plans are aligned and requirements being met.
- Consider the welfare and holistic management of a player for their current situation.
Essential Experience
- Experience in working with elite junior players for 3+ years
- Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build strong relationships with both the playing group and coaches that you work with.
- Evidence of Strength and Conditioning programme design and practical implementation for rugby league players.
- Exceptional work ethic and ability to provide a high level of energy within the workplace.
- Have a good understanding of, and the ability to utilise in practice, current sport science technology to help guide programming.
Qualifications
- BSc In Sport and Exercise Science (or equivalent)
- UKCSA accredited or the ability to obtain within 6 months.
Salary – £35,000 per annum
Please send CV and covering letter to ben.cooper@wakefieldtrinity.com