Sports Coach L4 Apprentice

LOVE PLAY ACTIVE LTD

Shrewsbury, (SY1 2HS )

Closes on Monday 13 July 2026

Posted on 2 June 2026

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Summary

This apprenticeship is a great opportunity for someone who wants to build a career in sports coaching while gaining real experience delivering sessions in community centers and primary schools. You will work as part of the Love Play Active team, delivering your own sports sessions.

• Wage:

  £7,680 a year

  Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)

  Working Hours 16 hours per week, made up of: 10 hours delivering sports coaching sessions in community centres and primary schools 4 hours completing admin and business-related tasks 2 hours protected coursework/study time

• Training course: Sports coach (level 4)
• Hours: TBC at the interview stage

  16 hours a week

• Start date:

  Monday 27 July 2026

• 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

Main Responsibilities:

Sports Coaching Delivery

You will:

• Deliver your own sports coaching sessions to children and young people
• Plan and lead fun, safe, and engaging sports activities
• Support sessions in primary schools, community centres, holiday clubs, after-school clubs, and other Love Play Active programmes
• Create a positive, inclusive, and energetic environment for all participants
• Adapt activities to suit different ages, abilities, and confidence levels
• Promote teamwork, confidence, enjoyment, and physical activity
• Ensure all sessions are delivered safely and professionally
• Represent Love Play Active in a positive and professional way
• Business and Admin Development

You will also spend time learning the business side of sport, including:

• Session planning and preparation
• Registers, attendance tracking, and basic admin tasks
• Communication with schools, parents, community partners, and staff where appropriate
• Understanding how bookings, programmes, and sports provision are organised
• Supporting marketing, social media, equipment checks, and session organisation

We are looking for someone who is:

• Passionate about sport, coaching, and working with children
• Reliable, punctual, and professional
• Confident or willing to become confident delivering sessions
• Positive, enthusiastic, and willing to learn
• Able to communicate well with children, parents, schools, and colleagues
• Organised and able to manage coursework alongside work duties
• Interested in learning both the coaching and business side of sport
• Able to work independently once trained and supported

Essential Requirements:

• A strong interest in sports coaching and child development
• A positive attitude and willingness to learn
• Good communication skills
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Commitment to completing the apprenticeship qualification
• Willingness to complete safeguarding training and follow Love Play Active policies

Where you'll work

27-28 Victoria Street,
Shrewsbury,
SY1 2HS

Training

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

Training provider

Training course

Sports coach (level 4)

Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)

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 receive full on the job training as well as 20% off the job training from the employer, they will also receive a full wrap around service 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

• Communication skills
• Organisation skills
• IT skills
• Physical fitness

Other requirements

• The candidate must be able to drive and have their own vehicle

About this employer

Love Play Active Multisports delivers fun, inclusive, and high-quality sports sessions for children and young people across schools and community settings. Our mission is to help children develop confidence, skills, teamwork, and a lifelong love of being active.

After this apprenticeship

• The apprentice will be able to progress on to the next level once they have completed their apprenticeship

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

Jo Gray

Jo.Gray@wearescl.co.uk

07586195152

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000034436.

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Closes on Monday 13 July 2026

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