Support Coach

A new coach development programme that will help you take your first steps into coaching cricket.

Programme Outcomes

This programme has been designed to give learners the knowledge, skills and confidence to support qualified coaches.

An ECB Support Coach is not qualified to lead coaching sessions independently and therefore must be supervised by a qualified cricket coach.

Content

  • Supporting coaches and players
  • icoachcricket
  • Communicating with coaches and players
  • Supporting fielding, bowling and batting
  • Safety
  • Differentiation

The ECB Support Coach has been designed to give learners the knowledge, skills and confidence to support qualified coaches.

The course upskills individuals who want to help and support a qualified coach in the delivery and organisation of safe cricket games and sessions. This vital role supports the coach in action and development of players predominantly in the club or school environment.

An ECB Support Coach is not qualified to lead coaching sessions independently and therefore must be supervised by a qualified cricket coach.

Specifically, this course is designed to help to develop your confidence and equip you with the knowledge, understanding and applied skills to assist a qualified coach in a coaching session and create a safe, enjoyable and welcoming player-centred environment. The course focuses on practical learning allowing you to understand how to make sessions safe, lead warm-ups and cool downs, and run different types of practice.

  • Supporting coaches and players
  • iCoachCricket
  • Communicating with coaches and players
  • Supporting fielding, bowling and batting
  • Safety

Module 1 - Introducing ECB Support Coach

  • Introduce the core themes of the program and helps prepare for the face-to-face module

Module 2 - Supporting coaching

  • Role of an ECB Support Coach
  • What does support coaching look like?
  • Coaching – your turn
  • Player welfare and safeguarding
  • Coaching fielding, bowling and batting – your turn

Module 3 - Being a ECB Support Coach

  • Explores how support coaches enhance players’ experiences using a variety of scenarios
  • Multiple choice question assessment

Who is it for?

Anyone aged 16 and over wishing to support qualified coaches, inspire players and make a difference to the game.

Commitment

  • £40.00
  • 1 face-to-face module lasting 3 hours
  • 2 bitesize e-learning modules lasting 10-15 minutes each
  • Multiple choice question assessment

Pre-requisites

  • 16 years of age
  • ECB DBS
  • Valid safeguarding certificate (e.g. Safeguarding Young Cricketers)

For more information or to book a course at your club, please contact Gareth Dawson Workforce Development Officer.

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Theresa Ellison / Administration Officer

Theresa’s role is to help and support others in the wider Gloucestershire Foundation team to ensure that the Foundation runs effectively and efficiently. Some of the key administrative areas are:

  • Helping to organise and set up the trials, winter nets programme and performance programme for the Girls and Boys Zonal squads
  • Keeping club contact details up to date including checking that each club’s Safeguarding Officer has valid qualifications and initiate and verify DBS applications for club volunteers
  • Administering online bookings including trials, winter nets programmes, Coach Development courses, holiday camps etc
  • Helping with many financial activities by creating invoices, payment of bills, chasing outstanding debtors etc
  • Help to create and run the office side of Coach Development

Theresa acts as the point of contact for many administrative parts of the Foundation.

Theresa Ellison / Administration Officer
Email
07880 387304