Lead Coach School Football (Wells Cathedral School)

Organisation: Chelsea Football Club
Salary: competitive
Location: Wells, Somerset
Contract type: Permanent (Full time)
Closing date: 26 February 2026
Job Description: JOB TITLE: Lead Coach School Football (Wells Cathedral School)

LOCATION: Wells Cathedral School, The Liberty, Wells, Somerset, BA5 2ST

The Role

To plan and deliver safe, inclusive, and high-quality provision across all activities, ensuring safeguarding, engagement, and positive outcomes.

Closing date: 26th February

We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. In the event that we receive a large number of applications, the position may be filled before the listed closing date. To avoid missing out, please submit your application at your earliest convenience.

Key Responsibilities

To deliver safe, inclusive and high quality coaching sessions on a daily basis across all coaching activities within Wells Cathedral School, ensuring participants have the best Chelsea experience. These to include, but not limited to all In and Out of School activity, Player Development Programme, Post 16 Programme sessions and the various programmes delivered during the school holidays and weekends.
To deliver on activity within Wells Cathedral School to support, develop, engage and enhance relationships within Wells Cathedral School and other relevant clubs/schools/organisations/businesses, leisure centres/local authority/The Club.
To deliver on any activity deemed appropriate and reasonable by the Line Manager.
To support the wider team by networking and sharing relevant information and opportunities to further enhance the out-reach delivery programme while ensuring financial stability and growth.
To carry out duties relevant to legislation and the Clubs policies and procedures.
To undertake any Club activity that maybe required in addition to the role.

Person Specification

Experience and Qualifications:

A minimum of the UEFA C Football Coaching qualification. (FA Level 2 is the equivalent qualification) working towards a UEFA B-License.
In date FA Safeguarding Children course & the FA Introduction to First Aid in Football certificate.
Clean driving licence.

Our Expectations:

To embody the club’s BLUE behaviours (Brave, Lead, Unity, Edge) in the approach to work and interaction with others
To adhere to the club’s policies and procedures, including Health & Safety, Financial Authorisation, Confidentiality and GDPR.
To act as an ambassador for diversity, equality, and inclusion, and demonstrate a positive commitment by treating others fairly in line with our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Policy and reporting any acts of discrimination through appropriate channels
To create a safe environment and act to protect all young people and vulnerable adults that are either in your care or attending club premises, and report any concerns to the Safeguarding Lead
To report any misconduct or suspected misconduct to the HR Department

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

At Chelsea we recognise that the diversity of our people is one of our greatest strengths and we are taking positive action to ensure our existing colleagues and job applicants can fully be themselves and bring their own unique experiences and perspectives to Chelsea FC. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.

If you need reasonable adjustments made to the recruitment process, please reach out to your recruiter, who will be able to advise and support you.

Chelsea FC is fully committed to ensuring the safety and well-being of all children, young people and adults at risk (vulnerable groups). We therefore require all successful applicants to complete a DBS Check prior to starting employment. Depending on the role, successful applicants may also be required to undergo other child protection screening where appropriate.
How to apply: Please apply using the following link: https://secure.workforceready.eu/ta/6189861.careers?ApplyToJob=100792835&full_apply=&jobid=100792835