Sports Coach Apprenticeship
LEO ACADEMY TRUST
Ashtead, Cheam, Epsom Downs, Redhill, Sutton, West Molesey
Closes in 16 days (Sunday 31 August 2025)
Posted on 15 August 2025
Contents
Summary
Are you ready to kickstart your career in sports with an expanding, leading educational trust? LEO Academy Trust is searching for an ambitious and passionate Sports Apprentice to join our dynamic team for the Autumn term 2025! Our schools are located across Surrey and Sutton.
- Wage
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£12,514 a year
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£8 per hour £12,514 per annum (if age 19 or over and after the first year of your apprenticeship, you will be entitled to the correct minimum wage for your age)
- Training course
- Sports coach (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday during term time and half terms.
Study leave and annual leave are rolled up into school holiday periods.
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 1 October 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 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
Employment Duties:
- Deliver enrichment clubs and activities at breakfast, lunch and after school.
- Support the teaching of PE and sport lessons in school.
- Support ordinary classroom activities.
- Support your academy in preparing for and attending school sport competitions.
- Produce risk assessments for your academy in preparation for them attending sports events.
- Support house competitions, sports days and other events where possible.
- Help to identify and support talented individuals.
- Support Academy Trust-wide events and initiatives.
- Be a champion for LEO Sport and Sport & Wellbeing in general - promote and market sporting opportunities to schools and parents/students through traditional and social media channels.
- Help ensure the sporting achievements of the academy and its students are well publicised.
- Assist with the running of before and/or after-school clubs.
- Pastoral support for small groups or individuals.
- Gifted and talented and low self-esteem mentoring.
- 1-1 support for pupils with SEN or disabilities.
- Organising and running inter and intra sports events.
Where you'll work
You can select which locations you want to apply for in your application on Find an apprenticeship.
This apprenticeship is available in these locations:
- West Ashtead Primary Academy, Taleworth Road, Ashtead, KT21 2PX
- LEO Academy Trust Registered Address, 314 Malden Road, Cheam, SM3 8EP
- Cheam Park Farm Primary Academy, Molesey Drive, Cheam, SM3 9UU
- Shawley Community Primary, Shawley Way Tattenham Corner, Epsom Downs, KT18 5PD
- Furzefield Primary School, Delabole Road, Redhill, RH1 3PA
- Cheam Fields Primary Academy, Stoughton Avenue, Cheam, Sutton, SM3 8PQ
- Brookfield Primary Academy, Ridge Road, Sutton, SM3 9LY
- Manor Park Primary Academy, Greyhound Road, Sutton, SM1 4AW
- 438 Hurst Road, West Molesey, KT8 1QS
- Chandlers Field Primary, High Street, West Molesey, KT8 2LX
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
IGNITE SPORT UK LIMITED
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.
Training schedule
Training will take place in your school location, in addition to regular weekly study sessions.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4-9 or A - C*)
- Maths (grade 4-9 or A - C*)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT 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
These roles are exclusively based in the UK. We are unable to sponsor a Certificate of Sponsorship/visa for these roles. Feedback will be provided upon request for interviewed candidates. In line with safeguarding guidelines, pre-employment checks, including internet and social media searches and an enhanced DBS check, will be conducted. Fluency in English is essential for effective communication and safeguarding responsibilities. LEO Academy Trust is committed to promoting equality of opportunity and creating a supportive, inclusive working environment. We welcome applications from all members of the community, embracing diversity and non-discrimination. Safeguarding & Equal Opportunities: We are dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check. For further information, please refer to our applicant guide on our website. Reasonable Adjustments: Should you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact the Recruitment team via recruitment@leoacademytrust.co.uk as soon as possible. External candidates should also complete the appropriate section of the application form.
About this employer
Why choose an Apprenticeship with LEO Academy Trust? Real-world impact: Make a tangible difference in the lives of children, staff, and families across our vibrant school communities. Invest in your future: Benefit from enhanced career earnings, continued education, and a fulfilling working life, as evidenced by the Social Mobility Commission (2020). Proven success: Join a Trust with a strong track record of successful apprenticeship employment in diverse roles. We are committed to supporting you every step of the way! Grow with us: Become part of a thriving community of apprentices, with exciting progression opportunities through 'extra' CPD and the possibility of continued employment after your studies.
After this apprenticeship
While we cannot guarantee employment with the Trust beyond the completion of your apprenticeship, we have a thriving sports team delivering activities and events across all the schools in our growing Trust.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LEO ACADEMY TRUST
Recruitment Team
Recruitment@leoacademytrust.co.uk
0208 066 7130
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000337455.
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Closes in 16 days (Sunday 31 August 2025)
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