Assistant Performance Coach
The Royal School Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton
- £22,600 - £22,990 per year
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- March 2025
- Apply by:
- 20 February 2025
Job overview
RSW Swimming is a Performance Programme with a successful track record of developing swimmers to selection for junior and senior international teams. We aim to develop young people in our squads so they are happy, confident and driven young leaders ready for the next stage of their lives and swimming careers. Successful swimmers in our programme have: Won Olympic and Paralympic Gold medals. Won medals at and qualified for European Junior and European Youth Olympic Festival teams. Qualified for World, European and Commonwealth Games teams. Progressed to training at Aquatics GB National Centres. Been accepted into outstanding universities in the UK and around the world. Been offered scholarships to top US universities. Our partnership with The Royal School means we regularly attract swimmers from across the United Kingdom and around the world who join our programme as boarding students, as well as local talented swimmers from the West Midlands area.
We are looking to recruit a suitably qualified, enthusiastic and energetic Assistant Performance Coach who can provide and support the delivery of Performance Swimming at The Royal School Wolverhampton. This person will provide exceptional coaching and have the commitment and management skills to deliver the aims of The Royal within a clear timeframe. The Royal School Wolverhampton first established its performance swimming programme in 2009 and has since become established as one of the leading programmes in the UK. Now known as RSW Swimming, The Royal has produced four swimmers who have gone on to represent GB at the Olympic Games, including Olympic and Paralympic champions Matt Richards and Tully Kearney, with a rich history of producing junior international swimmers along the way. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone to join our programme at a time where plans for expansion and improvement are coming to fruition. Here at The Royal we continue to look for ways to sustain and develop our provision of a performance programme which produces world-class swimmers. Swimmers at The Royal that not only realise but exceed their perceived potential in swimming, education and life.
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About The Royal School Wolverhampton
- The Royal School Wolverhampton
- Penn Road, Wolverhampton
- West Midlands
- WV3 0EG
- United Kingdom
The Royal School Wolverhampton is a co-educational, all-through free school based in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, for students aged 4-19. The school is non-selective and non-denominational.
The Royal School was founded in 1850 as an orphanage by a local philanthropist and businessman, John Lees.
Boarders can join the school from age 10 upwards and stay in one of its single-sex boarding houses. Boarding accommodation is in spacious and well-equipped 25-acre grounds surrounded by woodlands, offering a secure and peaceful environment with the convenience of an urban setting.
Principal
Mr Tom Macdonald
Values and vision
The Royal School Wolverhampton aims for pupils to grow into confident and mature young adults with an awareness of their own potential, alongside an understanding and appreciation of their wider community. It has an extended school day, with its academic timetable running alongside a busy programme of extracurricular activity.
The Royal School is home to students of many different nationalities, which it believes adds to the diverse learning experience of pupils and their effective preparation for the world outside of school. Teachers provide a unique cultural, academic and sporting mix that plays a vital role in every child’s success. The school has a long-standing tradition of a friendly, competitive house system and gives seniors the opportunity to take on leadership roles through the Duke of Edinburgh scheme and Combined Cadet Force.
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