Community Sport and Health Officer Apprentice
COACH CORE FOUNDATION
Nottingham (NG6 9DR)
Closes on Wednesday 27 August 2025
Posted on 23 July 2025
Contents
Summary
The role will work with the Live Team and will be based at Hopewood Hospital, providing and supporting meaningful physical activity, engagement and opportunities within our Young Peoples services. This includes facilitation and creating community links.
- Wage
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£14,918.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Community sport and health officer (level 3)
- Hours
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37.5 hours a week, exact shifts to be confirmed- a mixture of mornings, evenings and occasional weekends will be required
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 3 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 3 months
- Positions available
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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
Coach Core’s vision is to drive social mobility through apprenticeships and sport, so that every young person can reach their true potential and inspire those around them. Since our launch in 2012, we have worked with over 150 of the biggest sports providers, youth clubs and charities in the country, supporting over 500 young people.
The Community Sport and Health Officer role is the perfect opportunity to understand the role of sport and physical activity in the Community, and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation are offering a great opportunity start your career.
As above, the role with include of mixture of direct provision and wider strategic work, with the clinical and operational support/guidance of the Live Team and staff at Hopewood Hospital. This will include:
- Planning, Facilitation and Review of a programme of Physical Activity on Wards
- Planning, Facilitation and Review of a programme of Physical Activity off ward, where assessed as appropriate
- Work closely with the wider Multi-disciplinary Teams to ensure delivery is meaningful, safe and responsive to patient need
- Contribute to and undertake Positive Risk Management including Risk Assessment alongside Live Team and wider Hopewood staff
- Supporting existing staff to develop their understanding and skills in a variety of physical activity provision
- Supporting patients, family and carers to develop their understanding and skills in a variety of physical activity
- Exploring and Linking with community services delivering physical activity, to create strategic partnerships and connections
- General administration tasks, in line with Trust Policy
- Explore and co-design a plan for sustainability of the role post placement
- Co-producing a Case Report to contribute to and enhance understanding of physical activity delivery in mental health
What your apprenticeship includes:
- A mixture of face to face and online catch ups every 4 - 6 weeks to discuss feedback and progress
- A mixture of on and off the job training, including workshops and webinars
- Reviews every 12 weeks with your Line Manager and apprenticeship Trainer
- The chance to get Functional Skills in English and maths (if you don’t already have GCSE)
At Hopewood Hospital, you will be working towards your Community Sport and Health Officer Apprenticeship Level 3 qualification over the course of 12-18 months.
Where you'll work
Highbury Rd
Nottingham
NG6 9DR
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
LIFETIME TRAINING GROUP LIMITED
Training course
Community sport and health officer (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Successful application of tactics and strategies to empower people from inactive and hard to reach populations to take up an active lifestyle
- Successful application of a range of approaches that bring about changes in attitudes and behaviours within target communities
- Supporting people within target communities to become involved in the preparation, planning and delivery of sport and active lifestyles
- Using local insight and customer-orientated marketing skills to attract high priority groups into existing leisure, parks and sport infrastructure
- Negotiation, lobbying and brokerage skills with local partners across public health, community development and anti social behaviour
- Demonstrate clear and effective communication techniques in order to give/receive information accurately and in a timely and positive manner
- Problem solving and effective decision making with regards the design and implementation of sport and physical activity programmes
- Writing successful funding bids to enable new, different or more opportunities to take place for sport and physical activity
- Managing disruptive behaviour of clients and customers before, during and after activities
- Managing and adapting personal behaviours to ensure provision is inclusive, customer-focused and accessible
- Building partnerships and developing meaningful relationships with local partners and stakeholders in sport and physical activity
Training schedule
Requirements
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Customer care skills
- Team working
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
- The post holder will be required to work both indoors and outdoors, in all weather - in a manner that is engaging and motivating. - The post holder will be working within an inpatient Mental Health setting. This means the post holder will likely be exposed to situations and information that can be challenging and or a traumatic nature - requiring high levels of self-awareness and resilience.
About this employer
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
https://www.nottinghamshirehealthcare.nhs.uk/ (opens in new tab)
After this apprenticeship
- Nottinghamshire Healthcare employ a wide variety of professions, both clinical and non-clinical, which contribute to care across a variety of populations
- Whilst there is not a post-qualification post guaranteed, the post holder would have key experience and access to wider posts within the trust, both clinical and non-clinical
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LIFETIME TRAINING GROUP LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000333459.
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Closes on Wednesday 27 August 2025
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