Level 4 Sports Coach Apprenticeship - Herts and Essex Cricket – Find an apprenticeship

Summary

As a Sports Coach in Hertfordshire and West Essex, the role will focus on promoting health and well-being across the school and supporting the PE Lead to deliver physical education. If you would like to inspire others to be physically active this is the role for you. For the right person, there is a potential pathway within school sport.

Wage

£11,778 to £19,047.60, depending on your age

National Minimum Wage

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Training course

Sports coach (level 4)

Hours

Monday - Friday. Hours to be confirmed.

30 hours a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 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

Gain invaluable insight and experience of working within a school setting. Developing knowledge, skills, and behaviours to support the teacher and inspire young people to learn
Be a role model for healthy, active lifestyles and support the delivery of physical education, physical activity, health and well-being, and school sport
Extend opportunities for all pupils to participate in extracurricular activities. Deliver active lunchtimes and support after school and community sport
Support with administrative tasks associated with sports teams, events and competitions
Assist the teacher in the classroom to support pupil progress and enhance the learning experience of children
Support the efficient organisation of storage areas, teaching aids and equipment
Working as part of the school team is a role model for learning, PE and school sport
Support and help create, plan, and deliver the national PE curriculum for a school or community projects related for cricket

Where you'll work

County Ground
New Writtle Street
Chelmsford
CM2 0PG

Training

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

College or training organisation

SPORTING FUTURES TRAINING (UK) LTD

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 Apprenticeship Standard qualification:

Training is provided through virtual learning
The programme provides opportunities to share experiences with other apprentices and learn from experienced professionals

Knowledge, skills & Behaviours Developed through research tasks:

The Wider Picture- Know and understand how education has developed, understanding the National Curriculum
Teaching Philosophy - How the environment influences teaching
Coaching and Teaching - How to coach in different environments - lesson planning
Behaviour Support - Developing learning techniques
Learning and Development - How do learners learn?
Learning Resources - Examples and how they can be used in lessons
Curriculum Development - Writing a curriculum overview
Profiling - Working 1:1 on development
Curriculum - Medium-term development, designing a Scheme of Work
Sports Partnership Work - Managing competitions
CPD development and self - awareness

They will also complete training to deliver:

Gymnastics (Once completed learners will have the knowledge and skills to deliver high quality and safe gymnastics lessons)
Outdoor Adventurous Activities
Dance
Organising Sports events (including Sports Day)
Developing lesson plans and schemes of work
Opportunity to gain relevant Level 2 National Governing Body Qualification
Safeguarding Level 1
Prevent duty
Working towards Level 2 Functional Skills (where appropriate)
Opportunities to gain additional coaching qualifications

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

English, Maths (grade 4)

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
Problem solving skills
Presentation skills
Administrative skills
Number skills
Logical
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience
Physical fitness

Other requirements

You would be working with an Ofsted - OUTSTANDING (Sept 2021) and National Award -Winning Training Provider. Working in places throughout Hertfordshire and West Essex

About this company

Essex Cricket in the Community aims to give everybody the opportunity to ‘Fly Like an Eagle’. To do this, we aim use the diverse passion and formats of the game to connect, grow, celebrate and inspire all individuals and communities within our City, County and Region. Our Mission is the TO BE THE NUMBER 1 CRICKET REGION, built on a platform off On Field Success, Off Field Growth & Home-Grown Inspiration Our FOCUS FOR SUCCESS is to EXICTE – Every individual to be excited by Cricket ENGAGE – To engage all partners, stakeholders to the opportunities around Cricket ENHANCE – To support the development and improvement of Cricket in the East Region At Essex Cricket in the Community, we understand that we serve a key role in supporting the entire game. This role is designed to play a pivotal role in providing support to our vibrant community team deliver on our mission.

After this apprenticeship

Higher education pathway
Teaching assistant within a school setting
Pathway into teaching
Working in a sector that involves, initiative, leadership, communication, developing positive relationships
Transferable skills that are invaluable in the wider world of work

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

SPORTING FUTURES TRAINING (UK) LTD

Adam Baker

vacancies@esfapprenticeships.co.uk

01438 791068

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000321425.

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Closes in 4 days (Tuesday 10 June 2025)

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