Sports Coach Apprentice
LEARNING THROUGH SPORT LIMITED
SOUTHAMPTON (SO18 6NX)
Closes in 26 days (Sunday 14 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 19 August 2025
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Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join Learning Through Sport as an apprentice and gain hands on experience delivering a wide range of physical activity programmes. You will work with a diverse range of participants from pre school children to older adults across schools and community settings.
- Wage
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£11,778 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Sports coach (level 4)
- Hours
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School term time: You will be working Monday to Saturday morning at a variety of different primary schools, pre schools and community settings.
School holidays: You will work on a sports camp, shifts to be confirmed.
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 15 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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2
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
- You will work across our partner schools and pre-
schools, delivering PE lessons, before and after school clubs, lunchtime clubs, and holiday activity camps - You will gain valuable experience working primarily with children aged 4 to 12, while also supporting a wide range of community programmes
- During term time, you will be based at various schools and pre schools, delivering lunchtime sports clubs, assisting lead coaches with PE lessons and leading your own sports or activity sessions during after school clubs
- You will also support evening football sessions, Saturday morning school programmes and our Futsal provision
- In addition to working with children, you will have the opportunity to support physical activity programmes designed for older adults, helping to promote health and wellbeing among the elderly
in the community - During school holidays, you will play an active role at our sports camps, coaching a variety of sports and activities in a fun, inclusive environment
Where you'll work
27 WYNTER ROAD
SOUTHAMPTON
SO18 6NX
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
KIDZ ZONE CLUB LTD
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
The training will take place at the employers work and will include a mixture of bi-weekly webinars, online training and practical workshops back in the workplace
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
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
- Passing a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check - Hold a UK Driving license and have access to a vehicle due to working at a number of schools.
About this employer
Established in 2006, Learning Through Sport is a trusted provider of high quality physical education and community sport programmes across Hampshire. We are passionate about using sport as a tool to inspire, educate and empower people of all ages from pre-school children to the elderly. Our team delivers a wide range of services, including PPA cover, PE lessons, before and after-school clubs, lunchtime activities and support for school fixtures. We also run holiday activity camps, evening football sessions, Saturday morning soccer schools and specialist Futsal programmes. Beyond schools, we are committed to supporting wider community wellbeing through inclusive physical activity projects. This includes delivering tailored sessions for older adults to help improve mobility, mental health and social engagement.
After this apprenticeship
- Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship and the Level 4 qualification, you will be well-equipped to progress into a full time coaching role within Learning Through Sport or similar
organisations - You may take on increased responsibilities such as leading sessions independently, managing school contracts, or mentoring junior staff
- There are also opportunities to specialise in areas such as Futsal coaching, youth development or inclusive physical activity programmes for the elderly
- With experience, you could progress into roles such as Senior Coach, Sports Coordinator or Programme Lead. There is also potential for further study or qualifications in teaching, sports science or community sport leadership
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
KIDZ ZONE CLUB LTD
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000337938.
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Closes in 26 days (Sunday 14 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
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