Men's performance squad/ first team coach

Join one of the North West's fastest-growing hockey powerhouses—Chester Hockey Club is seeking a dynamic coach or coaching team to lead its high-performing squads, develop international-caliber youth talent, and drive the club toward the National League.

Chester Hockey Club is one of the fastest expanding and leading Hockey clubs in the North West of England. We are looking to recruit a Performance Squad Coach or Coaching team to support the development of players and work towards achieving the club’s goal. 

This season our first team finished 5th in an extremely competitive North West Premier division, with the second team winning promotion to North West Division 1 and the third team finishing 5th in North West Division 3. This is supported by an established university partnership an exceptionally strong youth section, which has a number of players at Performance Centre level and representing their country in the international system who we are keen to develop as performance squad players. This year our U18 squad won the National U18 T2 Plate, the U 14 reaching the semi final and U12 squad winning their regional final and proceeding to the national final.

The successful candidate will plan and deliver high quality coaching for players, providing support to the 1st team on match days. This could also include facilitating and overseeing the use of video analysis, strength and conditioning coaches and other sports science support. A Level 2 coaching qualification is desirable as is a high level of coaching or playing experience. We are open to applications from player coaches and from coaching partnerships.

The role will involve approximately 5 hours of contact time per week. This comprises of; one training session with the opportunity to increase this to a second session, and one match per week. The position will be paid at a competitive rate according to the experience of the successful candidate. One of the key attractions of this role in addition to the competitive package will be the opportunity to work with other highly experienced coaches that will enable you to develop further as a coach and improve your coaching profile. As a club we would be keen to encourage and provide support to enable this to happen.

Chester Hockey Club is committed to a safer recruitment process, and we would require 2 references and the completion of a DBS check for the successful candidate.