Lions Academy Sports Coach & Teaching Assistant Apprentice

Summary

Opportunity to work in one of the best UK state schools for sport, including rugby, cross-country, cricket and athletics. School-Based Mentoring – Guidance from experienced teachers and sports staff to develop your coaching and teaching skills. Training – Regular in-house training sessions to improve coaching techniques and classroom management.

Wage

£14,918.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Location: The John Fisher School Job Type: Full-time (term-time only) Salary: Age-appropriate minimum wage, £13-15,000 (full-time) Hours: 9.00 AM – 5.00 PM (minimum 30 hours per week with 20% off the job hours) Reporting To: Subject Leader of PE

Training course

Sports coach (level 4)

Hours

Hours: 9.00 AM – 5.00 PM (minimum 30 hours per week with 20% off the job hours).

37 hours 30 minutes 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

Sports Coaching & Support:

Assist in planning and delivering sports lessons and training sessions across various sports, including rugby, football, cricket and athletics.
Provide coaching for school sports teams, including preparing for and attending fixtures and tournaments.
Offer tailored support to students of varying abilities, fostering skill development and enthusiasm.
Assist with sport and extra-curricular activities, taking on coaching responsibilities under the guidance of the Subject Leader of PE and senior coaching staff.

Administration & Organisation:

Assist with organising school sports fixtures, including liaising with other schools, preparing equipment, and maintaining accurate records.
Ensure all sports facilities and equipment are prepared, safe, and maintained to a high standard.

Pastoral Care & Supervision:

Build positive relationships with pupils, encouraging their personal and sporting development.
Assist in general school duties as required, contributing to a positive school culture.

Events & Activities:

Play an active role in sports days, tournaments, and other school-wide events.
Support after-school care and enrichment activities where required.

General Responsibilities:

Be a visible and active member of the school and coaching community, promoting the values and ethos of The John Fisher School.
Attend induction and in-service training as determined by the Deputy Head (Pastoral).
Contribute to occasional extraordinary events, such as residential trips.
To support The John Fisher School during weekend fixtures where required, either to referee/umpire and or coach a team (Rugby & Cricket), mostly in the morning.
To play for Purley John Fisher Rugby Club for a minimum of 12 games a season, Level 8, Surrey Counties 2 on a Saturday afternoon.
Undertake other reasonable duties as required by the Subject Leader of PE.

Where you'll work

Peaks Hill
Purley
CR8 3YP

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)

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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

A mixture of onsite and offsite at the training provider.

Hours: 9.00 AM – 5.00 PM (minimum 30 hours per week with 20% off the job hours) This can be negotiated.

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

Organisation skills
Problem solving skills
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Physical fitness

Other requirements

The ability to play rugby for Purley John Fisher Rugby Club for a minimum of 12 games a season, Level 8, Surrey Counties 2 on a Saturday afternoon. This is desirable, not essential.

About this company

Welcome to The John Fisher School! With a distinguished history of educating boys for nearly 100 years, our school combines deeply-rooted tradition with an innovative, forward-looking approach to education. Life at The John Fisher School places strong emphasis on cultivating the intellect through the academic programme, but also encompasses other aspects of personal growth through a vibrant and varied wider curriculum and excellent pastoral care. Our sporting programme is exceptional, with a wide variety of sports on offer. These include rugby, cricket, basketball, football, athletics and cross-country. We have a national reputation for rugby, playing private schools each week such as Eton, Whitgift and Brighton College.

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Company benefits

We Offer: ● A supportive and dynamic working environment. ● Career development opportunities- e.g coaching courses. ● Free use of the school gym. ● Free parking. ● Access to a state school sporting provision which rivals private schools. ● Free kit.

After this apprenticeship

Career Progression – Pathways into full-time coaching, education, or sports management.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

The John Fisher School

Jon Osborne

j.osborne@johnfisherschool.org

07540831213

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000330719.

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