Sports Coach Apprenticeship

Summary

Working with our Curriculum lead to plan, deliver and monitor a coordinated programme of high quality PE lessons, sports clubs and activities across all year groups that is progressive and reflective of the needs of the children and supports the aims of promoting healthy lifestyles and raising self-esteem.

Wage

£12,759.50 to £20,634.90, depending on your age

National Minimum Wage

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additional/holiday club hours available

Training course

Sports coach (level 4)

Hours

Monday to Friday (term-time only) plus holiday clubs if desired. Shifts to be confirmed.

32 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 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

To promote the school and provide opportunities for pupils to try new sports, attend and participate in sporting events, holiday clubs, tournaments and fixtures
To deliver PE lessons to classes of children which adhere to the aims of the national curriculum for physical education
To enable children to develop knowledge, skills and vocabulary in a broad range of sporting activities, as well as developing values and transferrable life skills such as tolerance, fairness and respect
To assess pupil progression/attainment from Reception to Year 6 against the skills needed to meet the end of Key Stage objectives in the National Curriculum
To work collaboratively with colleagues, wider community and sporting organisations to plan, develop and organise a programme of inter-school and intra-school competitions to raise the profile of PE and give children the opportunity to try new sports
To work collaboratively with colleagues to plan and deliver a programme of after-school and support holiday sports clubs throughout the year

Where you'll work

Stockmoor Drive
Bridgwater
TA6 6AH

Training

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

College or training organisation

BRIDGWATER AND TAUNTON COLLEGE

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

Sports Coach Level 4 (Higher national certificate) Apprenticeship Standard
100% workplace delivery, with scheduled online tutorials

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

GCSE's inc English & maths (grade 9 to 4 (A* to C))

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
Non judgemental
Patience
Physical fitness
Sport & Wellbeing Focus
Proactive & Flexible
Positive with children
Safeguarding Awareness
Group motivation skills
Self-esteem Support
Behaviour Management
IT Proficiency( Outlook, Word)

Other requirements

From sharing your passion for sport, to having a job where every day is different, there’s lots of reasons to start on your journey to becoming a sports coach. From day one as a sports coach, you’ll be empowered to make decisions and have an impact. Every lesson you teach or conversation you have in a school corridor has the opportunity to inspire pupils, shape their futures, and the world around them. Your impact will not be limited to your pupils; you’ll have opportunities to make a difference to our school and local community. As a sports coach, you’ll have the freedom and trust to use your knowledge, passion and creativity to teach curriculums in your own way. From themed learning days and engaging activities you can bring your personality and passion to the classroom from the very first day.

About this company

Our spacious and modern primary school incorporates a large outside area with lots of opportunities for team games. We are very proud of our last OFSTED inspection in March 2024 where we were judged good with outstanding Leadership, Personal Development and Behaviour and Attitudes. We were excited to hear that ‘The school’s vision for excellence is visible in school life.’ We are extremely proud that our recent inspection highlighted for our children that, ‘The school’s exceptional pastoral care helps them to feel safe and valued.’ It was also very reassuring that the strong sense of community that we strive for is evident and thriving, the inspectors commented that, ‘As soon as they start in the early years, children and families feel that they belong to the school community.’ The school continues to strive to be the best it possibly can and our staff are all committed to making the school even better. We place great importance on staff development and training as this benefits our children and can also lead staff to gain further opportunities or promotion. We have been involved in supporting other schools within Somerset and again, this provides professional development opportunities for many of our staff. We are especially proud of our variety sporting achievements which you can read about in our newsletters on our website. We believe that there’s no career quite like teaching.

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

Company benefits

LA pension

After this apprenticeship

PE Coach position in a school / a teaching career

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