Sports Coach Apprenticeship L4

SPORTS2INSPIRE LIMITED

Hemel Hempstead, London, St. Albans

Closes in 25 days (Saturday 6 December 2025)

Posted on 11 November 2025

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Summary

This role is for an enthusiastic sports coach who would like to develop their skills and knowledge within the sporting industry.

• Wage:

  £7,852 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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• Training course: Sports coach (level 4)
• Hours: This will be confirmed at the interview stage.

  20 hours a week

• Start date:

  Monday 15 December 2025

• Duration:

  1 year 6 months

• Positions available:

  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

The Role:

We’re looking for a Sports Coach Apprentice to Lead, Elevate, & Motivate through the power of sports coaching. 

You’ll be responsible for:

• Delivering a range of PE sessions, after / before-school clubs, lunch clubs and half-term camps at schools
• Working closely with the Operations Manager to develop as a person as well as a sports coach

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:

• Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead, HP1 1DN
• 159 Colworth Road, London, E11 1JD
• Abbey Gateway, St. Albans, AL3 4HB

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

SCL EDUCATION & TRAINING 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

• Sports Coach Level 4 (Higher national certificate)
• The apprentice will receive full on-the-job training as well as 20% off the job training
• They will also receive full wrap-around support from SCL

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

• MATHS (grade 4)
• English (grade 4)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

• Attention to detail
• Physical fitness
• Communication skills
• Patience
• Organisation skills
• Team working

Other requirements

This is a physical role.

About this employer

We at Sports2Inspire have dedicated their time over the years to provide made-to-measure programmes tailor-made to develop young minds and frame the future.

After this apprenticeship

• The apprentice can also progress to a PE teacher once they have completed their Sports Coach Level 4

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

SCL EDUCATION & TRAINING LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000000153.

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Closes in 25 days (Saturday 6 December 2025)

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