Job Description: Head Coach

Main purpose of the role: To provide structured coaching, development and fitness of senior players and to ensure the Club is able to field the strongest team(s) wherever possible.

Actual duties include: Take full responsibility for all coaching staff ensuring they attend training on Tuesdays and Thursdays for the senior players. Work in co-operation with the Club's Coaching Co-ordinator ensuring all coaches take a full and active role in carrying out the coaching and training sessions.

• Take full responsibility for coaching and training on Tuesday and Thursday evenings using best endeavours to encourage as many of the clubs players to attend as possible.
• Sit on Playing Committee for team selection working with Club Captain, 1 st XV Captain and team management to ensure that Hadleigh RUFC field the strongest possible team at all times.
• Have regular contact with the players ensuring their availability for matches and identify transportation requirements, if required, on match days. Transportation assistance is available from Committee members.
• Attend all 1 st XV matches, league and cup, home and away. You will be assisted by other members of the Committee if required.
• Take full responsibility for the team's preparation on match days ensuring tactics, set pieces, and key responsibilities are communicated to the players.
• Open the changing rooms on training evenings making sure the facilities are available from 7:30 pm. Also ensure the site is made safe and secure when leaving. It is especially important to remember to close and lock the barrier gate. A set of keys will be allocated to you for this purpose.
• Provide feedback to the Playing Committee regarding any matter concerning coaching, players, matches etc, which requires the Committees attention/action.
• Maintain communication throughout the season with all the Club's players and using your best endeavours encourage them to be fully committed to helping the Club achieve it's key objectives.

The post holder will be responsible to: The Executive Management Committee

Meetings to attend:

• Executive Management Committee, by invitation
• Playing Committee
• Coaching Co-ordinators Committee