Tiffin School: Level 4 Sports Coach Apprentice
TIFFIN SCHOOL
Kingston Upon Thames (KT2 6RL)
Closes in 6 days (Tuesday 7 July 2026)
Posted on 30 June 2026
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Summary
Are you passionate about sport, fitness, and inspiring young people? We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Apprentice Sports Coach to join Tiffin School's vibrant community.
- Wage
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£14,976 a year
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
£8/hour, £14,976 (FTE) - 36 hours a week, term time only (this will be pro-rated)
- Training course
- Sports coach (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday. Wage to be discussed at the interview with 30 working hours per week to be confirmed (t.b.c).
36 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 2 September 2026
- Duration
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1 year 6 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
This apprenticeship is your stepping stone to a rewarding career in education and sports coaching.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone looking to begin a career in sports coaching, physical education, or youth development while gaining valuable hands-on experience and a recognised qualification.
About the Role
Working alongside experienced PE staff and sports coaches, you will:
- Support the delivery of high-quality PE lessons and sports activities.
- Assist with lunchtime and after-school sports clubs.
- Encourage pupils to participate in a range of sporting activities.
- Help organise sports events, competitions, and school tournaments.
- Promote healthy lifestyles and positive attitudes towards physical activity.
- Support pupils of all abilities to achieve their full potential.
We are looking for someone who:
- Has a genuine passion for sport and working with children.
- Is enthusiastic, reliable, and eager to learn.
- Demonstrates excellent communication and teamwork skills.
- Can act as a positive role model for young people.
- Is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
What We Offer:
- A recognised apprenticeship qualification.
- Practical experience in a supportive school environment.
- Mentoring from experienced PE professionals.
- Opportunities to develop coaching, leadership, and organisational skills.
- A pathway into careers in sports coaching, teaching, or sports development.
Where you'll work
Tiffin School Queen Elizabeth Road
Kingston Upon Thames
KT2 6RL
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SPORTING FUTURES TRAINING (UK) LTD
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
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
- Depending on the area, you will be assigned a tutor, and training will be blended - involving both virtual and face-to-face.
- Training will be weekly and, off-the-job training hours will be logged.
- You will be working with an E-portfolio (BUD System) and, alongside your tutor, you will be assigned a mentor from within your workplace.
- Following a successful Gateway meeting, you will move forward for an End Point Assessment.
- Upon successful completion of the EPA, you will achieve a Level 3 Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship.
- Functional skills if required.
- Your tutor will visit for observations in the workplace.
More training information
You will be employed by Tiffin school and your apprenticeship training will be delivered by ESF Apprenticeships.
For more information visit: esfapprenticeships.co.uk
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE 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
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
Other requirements
All appointed apprentices will be confirmed depending on reference and DBS checks.
About this employer
Our rich academic curriculum, our strong and supportive pastoral care, wide range of extended activities are designed to educate, encourage and empower our girls. The school motto is Sperate Parati – or ‘Go forward with preparation’ – which encapsulates our aim for every member of the school community.
We are a diverse and thriving community, founded on consideration, tolerance and trust. Watford Girls is fortunate to have the support of an active Parents Association and the Women of Vision Trust that allow us to invest in superb facilities. The community ensure that each girl is given opportunities to develop confidence and resilience both in and outside the classroom, and to develop a sense of personal responsibility that is best summarised in the maxim ‘I can do it, and I will do it’ – words which every member of the school learns and takes to heart.
We value our status as an all-girls school whilst enjoying a close relationship with Watford Grammar School for Boys, with whom we share a common foundation, history and many joint learning opportunities.
Where you’ll work
Queen Elizabeth Road, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey KT2 6RL
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
- Level 4 Sports Coach in a school setting
- Higher education pathway
- Teaching assistant
- Pathway into teaching
- Level 5 Specialist Teaching Assistant
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SPORTING FUTURES TRAINING (UK) LTD
Adam Baker
vacancies@esfapprenticeships.co.uk
01784 222300
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000038613.
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Closes in 6 days (Tuesday 7 July 2026)
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