Level 4 School Sports Coach Apprentice
BIRMINGHAM DIOCESAN MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST
Birmingham (B19 3QY)
Closes in 8 days (Friday 26 June 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 17 June 2026
Contents
Summary
Passionate about sport and working with children? This Sports Coach Apprenticeship offers hands-on experience delivering engaging physical activity sessions, developing coaching and teaching skills, supporting healthier lifestyles, and helping children thrive. You'll gain valuable training while working in a supportive and dedicated team.
- Wage
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£15,392 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
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This is the annual full time equivalent. Actual wage is £14,122.
£8 per hour apprentice rate for 37 hours a week and 47.71 paid weeks (term time plus inset plus 2 weeks) a year.
- Training course
- Sports coach (level 4)
- Hours
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37 hours per week, Monday - Friday (Term time plus two additional weeks).
8.30am to 4.30pm (4.00pm finish on a Friday and 30 minutes lunchtime per day).
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 September 2026
- Duration
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1 year 8 months
- Positions available
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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
School Sport Coaches design and deliver coaching programmes that focus on the acceleration of sustainable mastery of children’s psychomotor skills and wider physical education standards. They profile children’s cognitive, social, emotional and physical development needs. They measure psychomotor, technical and tactical skills in a range of physical activity contexts drawn from the Department for Education’s National Curriculum to enable physical education targets to be agreed. These results are used to create a high-level curriculum plan that considers school term schedules and a ‘whole child’ development approach.
The nature of roles and responsibilities for this role may include:
- Working directly with pupils of all ages
- Working collaboratively with a wide range of partner organisations and industry specialists
- Planning and delivering programmes of physical activity for pupils, families and communities
- Performing physical activity and fundamental movement skills baseline and impact assessments of children
- Supporting the delivery of high quality and inclusive PE lessons to pupils in schools in line with the requirements of national curriculum for PE and the profile of needs across the pupil population
- Delivering an exciting extracurricular sports and activity programme including lunchtime activities in schools/communities/leisure facilities
- Offering family engagement projects for physical activity
- Delivering provision to enhance the mental health, self-esteem and wellbeing of service users
- Supporting competitive sports events
- Coordinating sports and physical activity related projects
- Safeguard children at all times
- Contribute to the overall ethos and working values of the school
- Contribute to raising standards by ensuring high expectations are shared with children
- Supervise and support pupils ensuring their safety, by complying with good H&S practice
- Support the teachers and coaches in managing pupil behaviour, reporting difficulties as appropriate
- Attend all training sessions as required for CPD purposes
Where you'll work
St. Georges Street
Birmingham
B19 3QY
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;
o Multi skills coaching - practical coaching skills
o Behaviour Management
o Practical PE Curriculum
o Outdoor adventurous activities
o Gymnastics
o Dance
o Safeguarding / Prevent
o Mental Health and Wellbeing
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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
About this employer
The academies in the Trust work collaboratively together on all aspects of school life, including leadership, curriculum design, teaching and learning and pastoral support, but retain their individual character and school values.
Individual academies are responsible for deciding on and developing their own unique character and ethos, the way the teaching and learning is delivered and the curriculum it is delivered through, all within the overarching BDMAT values of providing Life in all its fullness, Success and Positive Wellbeing for all.
https://bdmat.org.uk/our-team/ (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
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
We will support you in your personal development by providing you with the underpinning knowledge, skills and experience for the following:
- Careers within the Sport Coaching industry
- Careers within the Education sector including Behaviour & Learning Mentors, Teaching Assistants and Primary Teaching
- Potential further employment with the employer
- Opportunity for further education
Candidates successfully achieving this apprenticeship will be eligible to apply for membership with the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA) as a Practitioner.
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 VAC2000037432.
Apply now
Closes in 8 days (Friday 26 June 2026 at 11:59pm)