Sport Coach apprentice

YOUNGSTARS CHILDCARE LIMITED

London, South Croydon, Wallington

Closes on Tuesday 30 June 2026

Posted on 22 May 2026

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Summary

Train as an Activity Professional, delivering safe, engaging and inclusive sports, games and enrichment activities for children. Gain hands-on experience while working towards a recognised qualification, ideal for someone energetic, reliable and passionate about child development.

• Wage:

  £16,000 a year

  Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)

• Training course: Sports coach (level 4)
• Hours: Monday - Friday, 10am - 6pm.

  30 hours a week

• Start date:

  Friday 4 September 2026

• Duration:

  1 year 6 months

• Positions available:

  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

We are seeking an enthusiastic and reliable Activity Professional Apprentice to join our team and help deliver high-quality, engaging activities for children across a range of settings, including after-school clubs, wraparound care, PE sessions, and holiday programmes.

This role is an important part of our activity and enrichment team, supporting children’s physical, social, and emotional development through well-planned, inclusive activities. The apprenticeship combines hands-on practical experience with structured training, allowing the successful candidate to develop the skills, confidence, and qualifications needed for a career in sport, childcare, or education.

Responsibilities of an Activity Professional Apprentice:

• Support the planning and delivery of engaging, age-appropriate activities, including sports, games, and enrichment sessions
• Lead activities under guidance, ensuring sessions are safe, inclusive, and enjoyable for all children
• Promote positive behaviour, teamwork, and participation in line with organisational policies
• Support children’s physical, social, and emotional development through structured and free-play activities
• Adapt activities to meet the needs of different age groups and abilities, including children with additional needs
• Assist with setting up and clearing away equipment and resources
• Ensure safeguarding, health and safety, and welfare procedures are followed at all times
• Build positive relationships with children, colleagues, school staff, and parents
• Support supervision during transitions, breaktimes, or wraparound care sessions as required
• Work collaboratively as part of the activity team, taking direction from the Activity Lead or Manager
• Engage fully with apprenticeship training, mentoring, and professional development opportunities

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:

• Dagnall Street, London, SW11 5DT
• Cotherstone Road, London, SW2 3NE
• Bynes Road, South Croydon, CR2 0PR
• 269 Croydon Road, Wallington, SM6 7LF

Training

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

Training provider

THE EDUCATIONWISE ACADEMY 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 apprentice will complete training in the workplace, supported by regular sessions with The Educationwise Academy Ltd. Training will take place alongside practical experience across school, childcare and activity settings.

More training information

Training will be delivered by The Educationwise Academy Ltd and will combine practical workplace experience with structured apprenticeship training, regular reviews and tutor support throughout the programme.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

• English (grade A*-C/4-9)
• Maths (grade A*-C/4-9)

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

Skills

• Communication skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Creative
• Patience
• Physical fitness

Other requirements

Candidates must be aged 17+. The successful applicant must be willing to undertake an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

About this employer

We are the UK’s leading provider of sport, physical activity and childcare to primary age children and have expert understanding of primary school needs. We operate as an extension of school staff resources, providing invaluable support, and are an approved, trusted resource for the PE and sport premium. We offer career pathways for Activity professionals, Playworkers, PE teachers, TA's and Specialist T.A's.

https://www.premier-education.com/ (opens in new tab)

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

After successful completion of the apprenticeship, there may be opportunities to progress into roles such as Activity Professional, Sports Coach, Playworker, Wraparound Care Assistant, Holiday Camp Leader or PE Support Assistant.

The apprentice may also progress into further training in sport, childcare, playwork or education.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

THE EDUCATIONWISE ACADEMY LTD

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000031677.

Apply now

Closes on Tuesday 30 June 2026