Community Sports Coach Apprentice
RB GYM & SPORT LIMITED
Halesowen, Oldbury
Closes in 20 days (Friday 2 January 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 12 December 2025
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Summary
Enthusiastic apprentice wanted for our gymnastics coaching team. You’ll gain hands-on experience delivering recreational gymnastics, movement development, early years sessions and community programmes. You’ll build coaching skills, plan progressive sessions and help deliver events that give young people access to sport.
- Wage
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£9,815 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
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£7.55 per hour for the initial 12 months
National Minimum Wage from 12 months onwards - Training course
- Sports coach (level 4)
- Hours
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25 hours per week including study time.
This will need to be flexible as business needs change (exact hours and working pattern to be confirmed with employer).
Hours will be allocated during evening and weekends due to the nature of the industry.
25 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 2 February 2026
- Duration
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1 year 8 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
Typical responsibilities for a Community Sports Coach Apprentice may include:
- Assist with and deliver safe, engaging and progressive recreational gymnastics sessions
- Support movement development and fundamental skills in younger children
- Running clubs, groups, outreach sessions and holiday activities across venues
- Supporting community projects that promote activity, wellbeing and social inclusion
- Helping to design new community sport initiatives that encourage participation among inactive groups
- Building partnerships with local organisations including schools, youth services, charities, councils and community groups
- Recruiting, supporting and working alongside volunteers or assistant coaches
- Promoting activities and engaging with target groups to raise awareness and drive participation
- Adapting activities to suit different ages, abilities and needs
- Tracking attendance, gathering feedback and measuring impact of programmes
- Helping to plan and evaluate community projects or multi-week programmes
- Assisting with marketing campaigns to promote sessions, events or initiatives
- Maintaining safe, inclusive and welcoming environments for all participants
- Administrative tasks linked to planning, monitoring and evaluating activities
- Ensuring safeguarding, equality and health and safety practices are always followed
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:
- Earls Gymnastics Club, Furnace Lane, Halesowen, B63 3SL
- Earls Gymnastics Club, Rounds Green Rd, Oldbury, B69 2BU
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
ASPIRE TRAINING SOLUTIONS (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
Level 4 School Sports Coach Apprenticeship Standard
Sector specific CPD, such as:
- Multi-skills coaching - practical coaching skills
- Behaviour Management
- Community engagement and inclusion training
- Volunteer recruitment and support
- Outreach and behaviour-change approaches
- Safeguarding / Prevent
- Mental Health and Wellbeing
Requirements
Essential qualifications
BTEC in:
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
BTEC in:
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
- Team working
- Creative
- Patience
- Physical fitness
- Working with Children
- Passionate about gymnastics
- Gymnastics Coaching
Other requirements
Some travel across community sites may be required. Candidates must be confident and happy to travel to and from the locations each day. Please only apply for this apprenticeship if the location suits your mode of transport and travel times etc.
Evening or weekend work will be needed.
The successful applicant will receive:
- An allocated mentor
- Access to internal training
- Access to apprenticeship training delivered by Aspire Training Solutions
- Allocated learning hours during the working week
This role is subject to an enhanced DBS check.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect applicants to share this commitment.
About this employer
Earls Gymnastics club offers high-quality gymnastics classes, holiday camps, and themed activity sessions for children aged 6 months to 12 years. Based across two venues, Halesowen, and Oldbury, we specialise in creating fun, safe, and engaging environments where children can build confidence, stay active, and develop essential physical skills.
Our structured programmes cater to a wide range of ages and abilities, including stay-and-play sessions for toddlers, recreational gymnastics classes for school-aged children, free-running and parkour sessions for teens, and exciting holiday camps full of physical activities, arts and crafts, and social play. We also offer birthday parties and special theme days during school holidays.
As an organisation, we are committed to delivering excellence in everything we do – from our coaching standards and safeguarding policies to our communication with families. Our mission is to enrich children’s lives through movement and mentorship, providing a foundation of trust, professionalism, and fun that helps every child thrive.
After this apprenticeship
We will support you to gain the skills, experience and confidence needed for:
- Careers in community sport, coaching or physical activity programmes
- Roles within local authorities, leisure providers, charities and community organisations
- Opportunities to progress into Level 4+ coaching, community development or management roles
- Potential further employment with the organisation
- Further education or professional development
- Successful completion enables eligibility to apply for CIMSPA Practitioner membership
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ASPIRE TRAINING SOLUTIONS (UK) LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000005061.
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Closes in 20 days (Friday 2 January 2026 at 11:59pm)
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