School Sport Coach Apprentice

Beauchamp College

Leicester (LE2 5TP)

Closes in 13 days (Wednesday 14 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 17 April 2025

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Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join Beauchamp College as a School Sports Coach Apprentice, supporting the day to day running of a successful PE department and gaining insight into the profession of teaching / coaching.

Wage

£14,526.20 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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The above salary is for full time, this role is TERM TIME ONLY, working 38 weeks per year. the actual salary is £12,179.66 per annum.

Training course
Sports coach (level 4)
Hours
Monday - Friday, 8.00am - 4.00pm.

37 hours a week

Start date

Monday 4 August 2025

Duration

2 years

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you’ll do at work

  • Organise and manage sports equipment (e.g. help set up trampolines, wash sports kit, set up equipment, organise sports cupboards)

  • Support with the delivery of curriculum PE lesson, including students with SEND

  • Support extra-curricular PE clubs/fixtures (Including coaching and officiating)

Where you’ll work

Beauchamp College Ridge Way Oadby
Leicester
LE2 5TP

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

LOUGHBOROUGH COLLEGE

Your training course

Sports coach (level 4)

Equal to higher national certificate (HNC)

Course contents
  • Influence key stakeholders in the sporting context through own coaching philosophy and professional practice. 
  • Enhance coaching competencies and inter-intra-personal skills through continued professional development and self-awareness skills training.
  • Develop transformational coaching strategies and tactics that consider sector, sport, organisation and participants unique needs.
  • Comply with legal, ethical, effective and efficient coaching systems that align to the organisational vision, strategies, policies and processes.
  • Promote the value of the coaching team considering workforce structures and scopes including support staff, coaches, coaching assistants, and volunteers. 
  • Facilitate the development of the coaching team through due diligence, inductions, development and performance monitoring.
  • Deliver effective coaching services through industry support networks and a collaborative, cohesive and competent coaching team.
  • Design high quality curriculum that considers participants’ unique profiles, promotes ownership and informs micro, meso and macro plans as relevant to the sporting context.
  • Designs and delivers progressive programmes and selects coaching pedagogies that maximise engagement, whole child/person development and accelerates sustainable skill acquisition.
  • Delivers safe and effective coaching support to participants in practice, at events or competitions and influences learning and skill transfer across situations.
  • Embrace each participants uniqueness, their rights and advocates fairness, equality and diversity within the coaching environment.
  • Promote holistic wellbeing to control/contain stressors experienced by participants in their own context and environment.
  • Facilitate participant development by applying learning theory and skill acquisition techniques relevant to participants needs, sport specific demands and context.
  • Facilitate participant development and skill acquisition through positive learning environments and behaviour management strategies.
  • Facilitate participant development and skill acquisition through technological advancements and wider industry support mechanisms.
  • Measure the impact of the coaching strategies though analysis of participant, coach, coaching team and organisational perception and performance data.
  • Proactively responds to global trends, strategies, and contemporary issues in high performance sport to ensure best practice in coaching.
  • Embrace the high-performance context, culture, organisational direction, and codes to deliver effective coaching processes.
  • Profile athletes or players to measure bio-psycho-social attributes and inform whole person optimisation. 
  • Profile athlete/players to measure sport specific technical and tactical attributes and inform sustainable development and high-performance goals.
  • Plan sessions that consider high performance athlete's/player's unique needs, goals, curriculum, progressive programmes, practice, and competition schedules.
  • Prepare for sessions by organising resources, conducting event risk assessment and ensures safe operating procedures in line with high performance sport policy.
  • Deliver safe, inclusive sessions and makes adaptations in the moment to accelerate development and maximise performance gains through relevant coaching and communication methods.
  • Evaluate sessions to monitor sustainability of athlete/player development and performance gains to shape future plans as part of the continuous enquiry cycle.
  • Measure the impact of the coaching practice on the national and international positioning of the sport by comparing athlete or player results against national and international benchmarks.
  • Proactively responds to sector strategies, social change agendas, national and local trends in physical activity participation and contemporary influences.
  • Embrace the community category, context, culture, codes, stakeholders and public sector duty to deliver effective coaching pedagogies and processes.
  • Profile participants to measure whole child/person development dimensions considering cognitive, social, emotional and physiological capabilities.
  • Profile participants motives, behavioural norms, psychomotor skills, technical and tactical awareness in community sport and physical activity contexts to enable goals to be agreed.
  • Plan targeted and accessible sessions that consider each participant's unique motives, development needs, goals and seasonal plans.
  • Prepare for sessions by organising resources, conducting event risk assessment and ensures safe operating procedures in line with community organisation health and safety policy.
  • Deliver safe and inclusive and effective sessions and makes adaptations in the moment to engage and enrich participants though tailored coaching and targeted communication methods for maximum impact.
  • Evaluate sessions to monitor engagement, enrichment and whole child/person development dimensions to shape future plans as part of the continuous enquiry cycle.
  • Measure the impact of coaching practice on social change associated with access, participation, performance, equality and wellbeing by comparing results against local and national benchmarks.
  • Proactively responds to national trends in education standards, paradigm shifts, strategies and contemporary influences in school and physical education.
  • Embrace the school category, context, culture, codes, stakeholders, and statutory guidelines to deliver effective coaching pedagogies and processes.
  • Profile whole child development dimensions considering cognitive, social, emotional and physiological stages of development.
  • Profile children's psychomotor, technical and tactical skills in physical activity contexts drawn from the DfE National Curriculum to enable physical education targets to be agreed.
  • Plan safe, inclusive and effective sessions that consider each child's unique development needs, educational targets and curriculum plans.
  • Prepare for sessions by organising resources, conducting event risk assessment and ensures safe operating procedures in line with school health and safety policy.
  • Delivers safe, inclusive and effective sessions and makes necessary adaptations to develop children’s psychomotor skill mastery though tailored coaching and communication methods for maximum impact.
  • Evaluate sessions to monitor children's mastery of physical education standards, psychomotor skills and whole child development to shape plans as part of the continuous enquiry cycle.
  • Measure and evaluates the impact of coaching practice on school standards by comparing children's results against local and national benchmarks.
  • Influence key stakeholders in the sporting context through own coaching philosophy and professional practice. 
  • Enhance coaching competencies and inter-intra-personal skills through continued professional development and self-awareness skills training.
  • Develop transformational coaching strategies and tactics that consider sector, sport, organisation and participants unique needs.
  • Comply with legal, ethical, effective and efficient coaching systems that align to the organisational vision, strategies, policies and processes.
  • Promote the value of the coaching team considering workforce structures and scopes including support staff, coaches, coaching assistants, and volunteers. 
  • Facilitate the development of the coaching team through due diligence, inductions, development and performance monitoring.
  • Deliver effective coaching services through industry support networks and a collaborative, cohesive and competent coaching team.
  • Design high quality curriculum that considers participants’ unique profiles, promotes ownership and informs micro, meso and macro plans as relevant to the sporting context.
  • Designs and delivers progressive programmes and selects coaching pedagogies that maximise engagement, whole child/person development and accelerates sustainable skill acquisition.
  • Delivers safe and effective coaching support to participants in practice, at events or competitions and influences learning and skill transfer across situations.
  • Embrace each participants uniqueness, their rights and advocates fairness, equality and diversity within the coaching environment.
  • Promote holistic wellbeing to control/contain stressors experienced by participants in their own context and environment.
  • Facilitate participant development by applying learning theory and skill acquisition techniques relevant to participants needs, sport specific demands and context.
  • Facilitate participant development and skill acquisition through positive learning environments and behaviour management strategies.
  • Facilitate participant development and skill acquisition through technological advancements and wider industry support mechanisms.
  • Measure the impact of the coaching strategies though analysis of participant, coach, coaching team and organisational perception and performance data.

Your training plan

Delivery Method

  • You will need to be able to attend a training course at Loughborough College starting on Monday 4th August 2025 for 3 weeks Monday to Friday. (Please ensure you are able to travel before applying)
  • Additional training to take place at Loughborough College every other Monday to develop knowledge, skills, and behaviours in accordance to this apprenticeship
  • Online portfolio to update with learning and development completed onsite
  • Diarised visits from a dedicated Trainer/Assessor
  • Attendance at Loughborough College for Functional Skills (if required)

End-Point Assessment (EPA):

  • Work-based project and presentation with questioning
  • Practical observation with questioning
  • Professional discussion underpinned by a portfolio

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English and Maths (grade C/4 or above)

BTEC in:

  • PE or Sport related qualification (grade Pass/ Achieved)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • Organisation skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Team working
  • Initiative

Other requirements

You will be employed to work with children full time in a school as a member of staff, not a student. Any offer of Apprenticeship will be subject to a full DBS and Satisfactory References. Loughborough College reserves the right to withdraw this vacancy before the end date, following consultation with the employer.

About this company

We are a well-established, highly successful, ethnically diverse comprehensive college; this has greatly enriched our daily college experience. Our diversity is celebrated as we learn together and from one another through our formal and informal curriculum. Our students and staff thrive in a mature, supportive, focussed and innovative environment where everyone is a learner. Individuals and the college have enjoyed great success through hard work, service, respect, dignity and integrity. We believe in pursuing excellence and equity for all and promote opportunities for partnerships with schools, the community and a range of external providers.

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After this apprenticeship

  • Higher Education

  • Employment at the school

  • Coaching in education

  • Community sports coaching

  • International sports coaching

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

LOUGHBOROUGH COLLEGE

Jessica Commons

apprenticeships@loucoll.ac.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000316138.

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Closes in 13 days (Wednesday 14 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

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