Self- Employed Tennis Coach - North London
If you’re passionate about tennis, people and community this is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a brilliant, award winning club, build a client base and run a successful business.
We understand Rome wasn’t built in a day so you will have our full support to develop and grow at a sustainable pace.
What is important to everyone at Mayfield is that we find a coaching partner who genuinely understands the crucial role that grassroots sports clubs play in our community and wants to be part of growing and sustaining that.
The following responsibilities, abilities and personal qualities are important to us. If they resonate with you, we will definitely want to meet you!
You will deliver:
An ‘everyone can improve’ coaching programme for all skill levels, ages and
abilities that would include:
- Manage and grow disability tennis sessions with the help of our volunteers
- Develop and deliver a schools outreach program
- Start, organise and deliver coaching activities for children and teenagers
- Open up opportunities to get more women and girls playing tennis
- Team players coaching to improve performance and increase success in local
LTA Leagues (we’d love you to play as part of our teams too if possible)
- Lead the organisation of club competitions and tournaments.
- Play an important role in recruiting new members from the coaching
programme and local area generating additional income for the club.
- Work closely with the committee, contributing new ideas, solutions and
collaborating on funding applications.
- Play a pivotal role in providing positive customer service and promoting our
club culture through regular contact with all members and non-members.
- Promote and represent Mayfield using social and traditional media.
Mayfield Tennis Club is a vibrant, diverse and inclusive club community with team players competing in local leagues as well as thriving disability, senior, intermediate and pay to play groups. We're proud to have won three LTA Middlesex Awards this year, with two of them getting us to the LTA National Awards shortlists.
Our facilities are fully accessible to wheelchair users and disabled people. We have 5 tennis courts (4 Tiger Turf, resurfaced Jan 2023, with floodlights and 1 macadam), a modern clubhouse with bar and kitchen, car park, an attractive garden and seating area.
Listening to what our community needs and being open to new ideas continues to attract and retain a large number of people who are keen to learn, play and improve, so there’s heaps of potential. You can see the findings of our recent survey on our website https://clubspark.lta.org.uk/mayfieldtennis/News
We’ve also always been a very social lot so organising various events during the year brings us together to have fun, welcome new people, play tennis, table tennis, and more recently pickleball too.
Our ethos & objectives:
Culture - safe, inclusive, fun, caring, collaborative
Inclusion - enable accessibility for anyone who wants to play tennis
Improvement - give everyone the opportunity to improve
Participation - make playing tennis easy and fun
Social - offer a welcoming environment on and off court
Reach - to grow from 100 to 150 members
You are/ you have:
- Minimum LTA Level 2 coaching qualification
- LTA accreditation
- High-level playing ability.
- Enthusiastic, positive, collaborative, flexible attitude
- Empathetic and patient teaching style
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to create a fun, inclusive, structured and safe learning environment
- Creative approach to session and programme development
- Reliable and committed to delivering punctually and professionally
- Receptive to feedback
- Entrepreneurial spirit with interest in building a tennis business
- Strong organisational skills
- Passion for community development
- Skilled in recruiting and managing volunteers
- Drive to innovate and grow club membership
We understand that everyone needs to make a living and the world of work and how we want it to flex and fit in with our lives has changed a lot in recent years. So although first and foremost we’re looking for a tennis coach, here are some optional extras that we are open to discussing these as part of a hybrid role:
- Organise and run holiday camps for children and teenagers
- Lead fitness initiatives (e.g.cardio tennis, pickleball, yoga, pilates, personal training etc)
- Manage club bar operations
- Manage clubhouse hires
- Drive social activities, club/ community events and partnerships
How to apply
Please email us at mayfieldtennisclub@gmail.com with:
- CV & covering letter telling us why you're interested in partnering with
Mayfield, how you meet our needs and why you’re the best candidate for
the role.
- A draft programme showing what you could deliver in conjunction with our
current set up https://clubspark.lta.org.uk/mayfieldtennis/EventsV2
- Qualification and Accreditation certificates
- Criminal Records Check certificate
This is a rolling recruitment, meaning we will review applications as they arrive and interview and appoint as soon as we can.
We will respond to your application and/or questions as quickly as possible.
On and off court interviews will be held by a group of our members.
Final appointment decision lies with the tennis committee.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and ensuring our clubs volunteers and partners are representative of the communities we