Community Activator Coach Apprenticeship
COACH CORE FOUNDATION
Heybridge (CM9 4QP)
Closes in 15 days (Thursday 21 August 2025)
Posted on 5 August 2025
Contents
Summary
We are looking for positive individuals who are passionate about working with primary-aged children and can bring energy and enthusiasm with them every day. As a lead coach, you will be responsible for ensuring a fun, active, and stimulating safe place for children to enhance their physical education
- Wage
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£11,778 a year
- Training course
- Community activator coach (level 2)
- Hours
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25-35 hours per week, exact shifts TBC including Mornings
25 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
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.
Overarching Responsibility:
- To prepare, deliver and evaluate well-structured and progressive physical activity sessions programmes ensuring a high quality, enjoyable experience centred around the needs of the participants
- Delivering interactive and high-quality lessons, lunchtime clubs, and after-school clubs through thorough planning and preparation
- Being professional in your interactions with children, parents, colleagues, and schools
- Safeguarding the children
- Teaching relevant skills, progressions, and techniques
- Making sure health and safety procedures are being followed by all members
What your apprenticeship includes:
- A mixture of face to face and remote catch ups every 4 - 6 weeks
- A mixture of on and off the job training, including workshops and webinars
- Reviews every 12 weeks with the Apprentice, Line Manager and Lifetime Trainer
- Feedback sessions to discuss progress
- Obtain Functional Skills in English and maths (if you don’t already have GCSE or equivalents)
Where you'll work
27 Saltcote Maltings
Heybridge
CM9 4QP
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
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
- Attention to detail
- Team working
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
DBS is required for this role.
About this employer
Primary Education was founded in 2013 by former athlete, Michael Richardson, with a vision to use sport to change the lives of young people. Alongside Michael, our Senior Leadership team includes our Head of Education, Sally Pasquale, who is a former Head of P.E. with over 20 years experience. We have a genuine passion for teaching and learning. Our inclusive and varied curriculum enables us to provide schools with high quality P.E. lessons that are fun and engaging for your students.
After this apprenticeship
- Stepping in to a full-time coaching position within our organisation, further opportunties to develop into a role with additional responsibilities
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LIFETIME TRAINING GROUP LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000335715.
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Closes in 15 days (Thursday 21 August 2025)
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