Responsible To: Club Chair

Main Duties:

• To work with the club coaches
• To ensure the entries for competitions are completed and returned.
• Ensure the welfare and safety of the athlete above the development of performance at all times.
• Take reasonable care in all circumstances of any athlete below the age of 18 who is at an event without someone with parental responsibility.
• Look after young athletes’ personnel safety at event venues.
• Provide the appropriate ratio of staff for the ages and ability of the athlete .
• Provide staff of the same sex as the athletes.
• Upon completion of the volunteer action plan for the sport, guarantee that all volunteers for an athlete team have been through the appointments process, including self- declaration and subject access police check.
• Collect written evidence that all staff and volunteers with responsibility for young athletes from you team have completed appropriate child protection training.
• Comply with any local duty of care and/or child protection policies and procedures that might be in place e.g. local authority or school procedures that cover particular venues or athlete groups.
• Notify all parents/carers of athletes under 18 of all the times and venues of any competitions and of appropriate contact telephone numbers might be in place.
• To take responsibility for competition kit.
• To coordinate transport details for away venue competitions.
• To organise details for tours.
• To welcome new members and induct them into the club.