Sports Coach Apprentice
MR GARY SHACKLEFORD
BOUGHTON UNDER BLEAN, Canterbury, Chatham, Maidstone, Whitstable
Closes in 26 days (Tuesday 30 June 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 4 June 2026
Contents
Summary
This apprenticeship supports children's health and wellbeing through PE lessons, sports coaching, extracurricular clubs, lunch activities, and holiday camps. You'll work with primary-aged children, delivering fun and inclusive sports programmes while developing your coaching, teaching, and leadership skills through specialist training.
- Wage
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£12,480 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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Shifts will be confirmed once you have started.
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 1 July 2026
- Duration
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1 year 8 months
- Positions available
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6
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
On a normal day, a PE & Sports Coach apprentice would support a range of school-based and activity-based tasks. This typically includes helping to plan, set up, and deliver PE lessons for primary-aged children, working alongside teachers and qualified coaches to ensure sessions are fun, inclusive, and match the curriculum.
They may lead or assist with sports coaching sessions, focusing on developing children’s physical, social, and teamwork skills through structured activities and games. Throughout the school day, they often supervise and run physical activity sessions during break and lunch times, encouraging children to stay active.
The apprentice would also help organise and deliver extracurricular clubs such as after-school sports, as well as support sports competitions, inter-school events, and festivals. During school holidays, they may work in holiday camps, leading games and activities for groups of children.
Safeguarding and pupil safety are a key part of the role, so they would help supervise children at all times, support positive behaviour, and report any concerns where needed. They may also assist with basic administration such as preparing equipment, planning sessions, and evaluating activities afterwards.
In addition, apprentices attend training and CPD sessions to develop their coaching knowledge, behaviour management skills, and understanding of child development, while gaining experience working in different school environments.
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:
- UNIT 224, THUNDERHILL BUSINESS PARK, HICKMANS GREEN, BOUGHTON UNDER BLEAN, ME13 9NT
- St Stephen S Infant School, Hales Drive, Canterbury, CT2 7AB
- Swallow Rise, Chatham, ME5 7QB
- Maundene School, Swallow Rise, Chatham, ME5 7QB
- Postley Road, Maidstone, ME15 6TL
- South Borough Primary School, Postley Road, Maidstone, ME15 6TL
- St Marys Catholic Primary School, Northwood Rd, Whitstable, CT5 2EY
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
Training will be delivered by the apprenticeship training provider in the workplace, alongside day-to-day job roles in school settings. The apprentice will learn through a combination of practical, hands-on experience and structured off-the-job training sessions.
Training will take place mainly at the apprentice’s place of work (local primary schools and activity settings). In some cases, additional training sessions, workshops, or assessments may be delivered remotely or at a designated training venue arranged by the provider.
Off-the-job training will be scheduled regularly throughout the apprenticeship, typically on a weekly basis, and will include dedicated learning time to develop coaching skills, understand the PE curriculum, improve behaviour management techniques, and complete required coursework and assessments.
The apprentice will also receive ongoing mentoring and support from experienced coaches and teachers in the workplace to help apply learning directly to real sessions and activities.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
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
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Patience
- Physical fitness
About this employer
This organisation is a sports education and youth development provider that delivers high-quality PE, sport, and physical activity programmes for primary school children. It works closely with schools to improve access to sport and encourage children to be more active, confident, and engaged in physical exercise.
The company offers a wide range of services including PE lessons, after-school clubs, lunch and breakfast clubs, holiday camps, and wraparound childcare. It also provides coaching support, staff training, and school sport events to enhance physical education delivery.
Its main focus is making sport fun, inclusive, and accessible for all children, while supporting their physical, social, and emotional development. The organisation works across multiple schools, using trained coaches to deliver structured but engaging activities that build skills, teamwork, and confidence.
Overall, it is a community-focused sports provider that aims to increase participation in physical activity and positively impact children’s wellbeing through fun, structured sport programmes.
After this apprenticeship
After successfully completing this apprenticeship, the apprentice may progress into a full-time role as a qualified PE & Sports Coach or School Sports Coach, with increased responsibilities and potential wage growth based on performance.
There is also the opportunity to move into more senior positions such as Lead Sports Coach, PE Lead Assistant, or Activity Programme Coordinator, depending on experience and skills gained.
With further training and development, the apprentice could specialise in areas such as primary PE delivery, behaviour management, or sports development, or progress into qualifications in teaching (such as a teacher training route) or higher-level coaching awards.
Strong performers may be offered continued employment within the organisation, along with access to additional professional development, qualifications, and leadership opportunities across school sports and physical activity programmes.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ASPIRE TRAINING SOLUTIONS (UK) LIMITED
Lilly Oliver-Jones
lilly.oliver-jones@aaeg.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000034360.
Apply now
Closes in 26 days (Tuesday 30 June 2026 at 11:59pm)