Watersports Instructor Apprenticeship
Ahoy Centre - London
The Ahoy Centre (SE8 3JY)
Closes in 23 days (Thursday 21 August 2025)
Posted on 28 July 2025
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Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to help the Charity deliver its wide range of Watersports activities. It is a varied role with the potential to develop a wide range of skills. You will work directly with the delivery team, coaching children and adults with additional needs.
- Wage
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£10,993 a year
- Training course
- Community activator coach (level 2)
- Hours
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4 Days a week - 28 hours per week. Main working hours are 9am to 5pm but you will be required to work evenings and weekends.
28 hours a week
- Start date
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Thursday 28 August 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
At The Ahoy Centre you will work towards your Community Activator Coach Apprenticeship over the course of 12-18 Months.
You will be responsible for delivering Sailing, Rowing and Powerboat Training sessions to our beneficiaries on the Tidal River Thames.
You will receive the opportunity to gain a number of RYA (Royal Yachting Association) and BR (British Rowing) qualifications such as the Dingy Instructors, Powerboat Level 2, Safety Boat, First Aid and many more. You will be expected to be a positive role model for those who come through the centre.
To complete your apprenticeship qualification, you will work with a Lifetime Training Coach who will support you through your course work. Around 20% of your time on the apprenticeship will be dedicated to this.
You will be on a Community Activator Coach apprenticeship, which allows you to get a qualification and get paid to do it! Your qualification will be delivered by Lifetime Training, but you will be part of the Coach Core family- giving you access to loads of extra perks, including kit, training from partners such as UK Coaching and the chance to coach at local/regional sporting events.
Where you'll work
The Ahoy Centre
SE8 3JY
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 activator coach (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Planning and adapting sessions and activities that respond to customer feedback and encourage customers to develop a lifelong activity habit.
- Coaching or leading pre-planned sport or physical activity sessions that are attractive to the target audience(s) and develop motivational relationships with customers.
- Promoting a physical activity offer, (including but not exclusively) organised play and sport in the community which supports individuals on their behaviour change journey.
- Working collaboratively with sports clubs and other community assets – including volunteers, public services, youth workers, the police and community champions.
- Supporting customers to co-produce rewarding volunteering opportunities.
- Supporting families to participate together in sport and physical activity.
- Working effectively with customer insight to overcome individual, community and societal barriers to participation in physical activity and sport.
- Contributing to the employer’s design of activities and services and practising the employer’s organisation’s values, policies and procedures.
- Contributing to teams that deliver community events and festivals.
- Supporting organisations to evaluate, develop and promote sessions and other opportunities such as outdoor group exercise and informal social play.
- Maintaining personal safety and wellbeing, as well as that of customers.
- Managing disruptive behaviours from individuals within the group setting.
- Encouraging customers to be regularly active – both formally and informally – within sports clubs or leisure facilities including open-space.
- Effectively using social media and technology, appropriately, to deliver targeted messages to identified customer groups for example children, teenagers, adults and older adults.
- Effectively monitor and evaluate activities, sessions and projects using technology platforms to maintain accurate records and produce timely reports.
Training schedule
Community Activator Coach Apprenticeship L2 including Functional Skills in Maths and English if required
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
Other in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Team Working
- Organisation Skills
About this employer
We are a charity that changes people's lives and builds life skills through sailing, rowing, powerboating and other activities on and off the water. We attract people and adults from our local community working in partnership with community organisations. Often our users are from marginalised groups who wouldn't normally be able to access sailing, rowing or other water-based activities. As well as having fun, our recipients often gain new skills .
After this apprenticeship
During the program, you will be able to take part in many training sessions. You will have the opportunity to become an RYA Sailing instructor, a qualified Rowing coach, and get your powerboat licence. There are many other training opportunities that happen through the apprenticeship! We have had a number of apprentices who have continued to work at the centre as instructors after finishing. Others who have completed have gone on to work for many of the operators on the Thames.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LIFETIME TRAINING GROUP LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000333762.
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Closes in 23 days (Thursday 21 August 2025)
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