Apprentice Sports Coach

Summary

Express Coaching Services Ltd (ECS Ltd) is working in partnership with West Notts College to offer an apprenticeship in School & Community Sports for students attaining their Level 4 Qualification. The course element will start from September, but the role could start earlier to upskill.

Wage

£15,945.60 a year

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Year 1: £7.55 x 40hrs total: £15, 945.60 Year 2: £10.00 x 35hrs total: £18,480.00

Training course

Sports coach (level 4)

Hours

Monday to Friday 8am - 5pm Occasional weekends work depending

40 hours a week

Start date

Tuesday 1 July 2025

Duration

1 year 6 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

Key Responsibilities:

Planning and delivering coaching sessions:

This includes designing activities, drills, and game scenarios to develop skills and strategies. To assist in the coordination and implementation of lesson plans for a range of sporting opportunities in various environments, particularly in PE and the school curriculum, morning, lunch, and after-school club sessions, and holiday camps, where applicable.

Increasing participation through sport

To assist in increasing participation through high-quality delivery and content of PE and Sport. Building good professional relationships with key staff. Implementing and following all methods of good practice laid out by ECS Ltd and other partner organisations.

Promoting a safe and inclusive environment:

Ensuring students feel comfortable, respected, and included in the coaching sessions. Assist in adapting sessions for young people of all abilities and disability and encourage inclusion throughout.

Teaching and demonstrating sports skills:

Coaches instruct students on the correct techniques and strategies for their chosen sport.

Providing feedback and encouragement:

Offering constructive criticism and positive reinforcement to motivate students and help them improve.

Supporting students' physical and psychological development:

Helping students achieve their full potential in sport and building confidence.

Promoting healthy lifestyles:

Encouraging students to adopt healthy eating habits and stay physically active. Helping them to grow and succeed.

Sessional administration

Maintain all necessary paperwork relating to the monitoring (including register for the session if applicable) and evaluation of sessions. Implement the highest standards in terms of registering and handling data. When

required to safely dismiss children and ensure they are collected safely to their dedicated grown-up unless otherwise notified by the school of this

Other ECS Activities

To take on any other work that ECS Ltd may deem to be appropriate & need you to do from time to time, in particular, Mansfield Giant Basketball Club and assisting in delivering the ECS Inclusive Sports and activity provision where applicable. To ensure the upkeep and maintenance of all ECS Ltd equipment.

Where you'll work

7 Acorn Business Park, Commercial Gate
Mansfield
NG18 1EX

Training

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

College or training organisation

WEST NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 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

Working towards a Level 4 Sports Coach apprenticeship standard.

This programme is delivered via a day release delivery model which means that one day per week, your attendance is required at our Derby Road Campus (NG18). This attendance is required during term time only.

You will work with expert assessors and tutors to develop new knowledge, skills and behaviours within the profession.

You will experience a blended learning model.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade 4)
Maths (grade 4)

Other in:

Sports Coach (grade Level 2)

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
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Logical
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience
knowledge of Sports

About this company

ECS Ltd is an ever-expanding coaching company that delivers not just sports coaching but also event delivery within Nottinghamshire, across the region, and the UK. We deliver daily through school sport PE provision and PPA cover in Mansfield and surrounding areas, but also deliver sports days, Glow in the Dark Sports, Children’s Yoga, Inclusive sports and activities through wheelchair sports across the UK. We are also partnered with Mansfield Giants as a basketball club, and our coaches support the club.

After this apprenticeship

Progression to higher education and other CPD courses to aid your development and training.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

WEST NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COLLEGE

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apprenticeships@wnc.ac.uk

01623 900798

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000321401.

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Closes on Monday 30 June 2025

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