Join a dynamic and ambitious university performance sport environment where you’ll play a vital role in helping talented student-athletes achieve their full potential through world-class strength and conditioning support!

About the role

As an Athletic Performance Coach, you will be embedded within a collaborative, interdisciplinary performance team, working closely with coaches, physiotherapists, and sport science practitioners to deliver an integrated and athlete-centred approach to development.

In this role, you will design, deliver, and evaluate evidence-based strength and conditioning programmes across a diverse range of sports, supporting both individual athletes and teams.

Your work will directly contribute to enhancing performance, reducing injury risk, and supporting long-term athlete development within a high-performance system. You’ll have the opportunity to work with athletes at different stages of their journey, including those within the Student Performance Sport Programme, national governing body (NGB) partnerships, and Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme (TASS) athletes.

Beyond programme delivery, you’ll contribute to creating a high-quality training environment that reflects best practice in athlete preparation. This includes monitoring performance, managing training loads, and maintaining strong communication with key stakeholders to ensure a cohesive support network around each athlete. You will also play an active role in maintaining professional standards, contributing to team processes, and supporting continuous improvement across the programme.

This role sits within a wider vision to provide an outstanding dual-career environment, enabling student-athletes to thrive both academically and athletically. It offers an excellent opportunity for a motivated practitioner to develop their expertise, contribute to a progressive performance culture, and make a meaningful impact in a sector that values collaboration, mastery, purpose and taking pride in what we do.  

About you

We are looking for a motivated and collaborative practitioner who can deliver high-quality strength and conditioning support within a performance sport environment.

You should have

• proven experience delivering strength and conditioning to performance athletes and coaches
• experience designing, implementing, and monitoring evidence-based training programmes across a range of sports
• strong applied knowledge of key principles such as periodisation, injury prevention, recovery, and performance optimisation
• a degree in sport science (or equivalent experience) with a focus on the physical preparation of athletes is required
• UKSCA accreditation (or ability to achieve within 6 months)

Further information

This is a full-time role (36.5 hours per week) for a fixed-term period of 2 years.

Working in University Performance Sport Programmes will require flexible working hours in line with sport/athlete training schedules. This will include early morning, evening, and weekend work. Annual leave is to be taken in line with university semester breaks.  

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Luke Wilkinson, Athletic Performance Coach (lw2353@bath.ac.uk) or Sarah Ward, Lead Physiotherapist (shw52@bath.ac.uk)

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equity and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

What we can offer you 

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff benefits include discounted postgraduate tuition and language courses, alongside a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities such as apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning, and more
• Local discounts, including free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• A family-friendly workplace 
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Employee assistance services through Health Assured, including access to the Wisdom app
• Relocation allowance

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Be Well at Bath

We’re committed to creating a health-supporting working environment where everyone can thrive and be at their best. We offer a range of resources to enable you to do that from your first day here, including:

• Staff support groups and networks
• A network of Staff Wellbeing Champions
• A suite of tools, resources and frameworks that enable you to be at your best and thrive

Find out more about being at your best at Bath.

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Further details:

• Job Description & Person Specification