Sports Coach Apprenticeship

Summary

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who has a passion for engaging with children, young people and families through sport and PA and who is excited by our vision and what we do. You’ll learn how to coach to the highest standards, working with children and young people, where you can use your skills to build your career and make a difference.

Wage

£15,600 a year

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£15,600 /year (paid monthly) for the first 12 months - 37.5hrs per week at £8.00/hr. Salary rising to the Real Living Wage (currently £12.60/hr) after 12 months.

Training course

Sports coach (level 4)

Hours

Weekly programme to be agreed with your line manager. To include work at Sportily locations across Gloucestershire. Travel and other expenses reimbursed. IT equipment provided.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

2

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

Planning and delivering after-school club sport and physical activity sessions, community sports sessions and a diverse range of physical activity based work with children, young people and their families
Leading and supporting the delivery of sport, physical activity and faith-based sessions or school lessons
Developing and leading sessions and programme elements of holiday clubs and residential opportunities for children and young people
Developing and leading programmes of activity designed around specific sports or physical activities, according to your gifts, skills and qualifications
Supporting the provision of opportunities, naturally integrated into the activity of sessions, through which people of all ages can explore and encounter the Christian faith
Working within and in support of the Sportily seven spaces framework
Actively contribute to the delivery of the Sportily Leadership Development Programme within locations and across the network
Be involved in creating opportunities within sessions for children and young people to grow leadership confidence and capability through sport and physical activity
Achieve the development aims as dictated by your training schedule
Engage with all compulsory training requirements and undertake personal study, working towards the successful achievement of the level 4 Sports Coach apprenticeship
Undertaking training and development opportunities as agreed with your line manager.
Participate in Sportily team meetings, CPD sessions, Learning Community and monitoring and evaluation processes as requested
Promoting and communicating the activity programme of Sportily locations so as to increase engagement
Work effectively alongside Sportily Sport and Faith Coaches, Leaders and Volunteers to deliver programmes of activity in Sportily locations
Support the journey towards financial sustainability for the Sportily network through the promotion of ‘paid for’ activities and donor opportunities
Carry out all activity within a secure health, safety and safeguarding framework, in line with Sportily policies, processes and expectations
Be conversant and comply with all Sportily policies and operating practices
Undertake other duties as reasonably requested and expected

Where you'll work

Church House
College Green
GLOUCESTER
GL1 2LY

Training

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

College or training organisation

SPORT STRUCTURES EDUCATION COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

Your training course

Sports coach (level 4)

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What you'll learn

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

Monthly workshops with your assigned apprenticeship tutor, dates and times TBC

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
Organisation skills
Number skills
Team working
Creative
Lead activity delivery
Committed to safeguarding
Strong people skills
Ability to meet deadlines
Self-motivated
Initiative and perseverance
Approachable and helpful
Reflective
Respectful
Trustworthy
Patient

Other requirements

As Sportily, we are creating a network of fun-loving sport and activity groups, where all children, young people, and their families can try different sports, make new friends and encounter the Christian faith with others. You’ll be based out of one of our Gloucestershire locations – we’ll discuss this with you at interview to find the place that’s right for you, both in terms of geography and transport, but also considering your interests. Some evening and weekend working will be required to fulfil this role, however working timetables will be developed in dialogue with you, balanced across the team, with flexibility considered wherever possible. Sportily is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All post holders and volunteers are expected to share this commitment, to work within the policy and procedures of the relevant safeguarding policy and are required to attend all relevant safeguarding training. This post is subject to a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure and Barring check. Appointment will be made under CofE safer recruitment framework.

About this company

Fluff it. Duff it. Score it. Smash it. Whatever you do, just give it a go. That’s our motto for sport and for life. We’re for jumping right in and going on new adventures together, as a team. We are a place for everyone to try different sports, make new friends and explore what life is all about. So we do all sorts of sports and activities, some you’ll know, some you might not (heard of Kabaddi?), we hang out, we chat, we eat and we discover new things. What matters is we have a laugh while doing it. We believe that being more active, like the Christian faith, can change your life forever. And so we’re here to get everyone moving and show that things are a lot more fun when we’re kicking, diving, riding, rolling, running and jumping around together. We’re passionate about building a network of fun-loving sport and Christian faith groups where everyone is invited to try different sports, make new friends and explore what life is all about.

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Company benefits

12% employer and 2% employee pension contributions, with an additional 3% employer contribution available to match up to the first 3% of additional employee contributions. Option to ‘opt-out’ should you wish to.

After this apprenticeship

Full-time employment at Sportily.

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

SPORT STRUCTURES EDUCATION COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000318661.

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Closes on Monday 16 June 2025

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Company’s application instructions

To apply, please complete the application form and return it to joinus@sportily.org.uk. Alternatively, if you’d first like to see if you’d be a good fit and to find out more, please drop us a short email about yourself and we’ll arrange a conversation to answer any questions you make have.

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