Sports Coach apprenticeship

Summary

The Sport and Teaching Assistant is a pivotal member of the school’s sports team, supporting the delivery of a wide-ranging and ambitious sports program. This role is ideal for an enthusiastic, proactive individual with a passion for sport and a desire to gain hands-on experience in a school environment.

Wage

£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices

Check minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)

Training course

Sports coach (level 4)

Hours

8.00am - 6.00 pm (40 hours per week, including 8 hours study per week), five days a week during term time, including inset days.

40 hours a week

Start date

Friday 29 August 2025

Duration

1 year 8 months

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

The role of a Level 4 Sports Coach Apprentice is a very important one in the life of the school. It is expected that the Level 4 Sports Coach Apprentice will be approachable and friendly, but firm in their dealings with children and working always in support of the staff. It is most important that they take care not to become over-familiar with children and know when and where to seek help if they discern a problem with any child.
The Level 4 Sports Coach Apprentice should familiarise themselves with the ‘Amesbury Behaviours and Attitude Framework’ document in order understand what we believe High Performance looks like.
This is a job that demands commitment and an interest in young children and has much to commend it. The scope for individual initiative and specialisation is considerable within the parameters of the School.
To assist with sport and extra-curricular activities. While staff will be assigned to sports teams as coaches, the Level 4 Sports Coach Apprentice will be given a lot of authority to take responsibility for sports coaching under the direction of the Director of Sport, commensurate on their ability and training.
To attend induction and in-service training as determined by Deputy Head (Pastoral).

Where you’ll work

AMESBURY SCHOOL
HAZEL GROVE
HINDHEAD
SURREY
GU26 6BL

Training

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

College or training organisation

ACCESS FURTHER EDUCATION LIMITED

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

Amesbury is a day school. Registration is at 8.15 am and school finishes at 5.45 pm. There are no weekend commitments. It is a special place. We work hard, have fun, innovate, and strive to be exceptional.

Requirements

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
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Presentation skills
Number skills
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Patience
Physical fitness

About this company

At Amesbury, individuality thrives and children radiate happiness. We’re a school dedicated to uncovering and nurturing every child’s unique talents and interests. We foster engagement through a relaxed, fun, yet purposeful atmosphere. Academically ambitious, steely on the games field, and ‘mind-blowingly good’ in the Performing Arts’. It is nearly impossible to capture our school in so few words, come and see for yourself.

https://www.amesburyschool.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

After completing a Sports Coach apprenticeship, you'll be equipped with the skills, knowledge, and experience to lead coaching sessions, support athlete development, and progress into advanced coaching roles or further qualifications in sport and physical education.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

ACCESS FURTHER EDUCATION LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000318042.

Apply now

Closes on Wednesday 30 July 2025

When you apply, you’ll be asked to sign in with a GOV.UK One Login. You can create one at the same time as applying for this apprenticeship.

After signing in, you’ll apply for this apprenticeship on the company's website.

Cookies on Find an apprenticeship

Contents