Sports Coach Apprentice - Level 4
SOUTH LIVERPOOL COMMUNITY COACHING C.I.C.
BOOTLE (L20 9AH)
Closes in 20 days (Thursday 8 October 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 17 September 2026
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Summary
Passionate about sport and helping people become more active? Join us as a Community Sports Coach Apprentice! You’ll deliver fun, safe and inclusive activities for people of all ages, support local community projects and inspire healthier lifestyles. Perfect for someone energetic, motivated and community-minded.
- Wage
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£8,320 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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Monday to Friday - Hours to be confirmed
20 hours a week
- Start date
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Friday 9 October 2026
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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3
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
Typical responsibilities for a Community Sports Coach Apprentice may include:
- Planning and delivering high-quality sport and physical activity sessions for a range of community groups
- Running clubs, groups, outreach sessions and holiday activities across local venues
- Supporting community projects that promote activity, wellbeing and social inclusion
- Helping to design new community sport initiatives that encourage participation among inactive groups
- Building partnerships with local organisations including schools, youth services, charities, councils and community groups
- Recruiting, supporting and working alongside volunteers or assistant coaches
- Promoting activities and engaging with target groups to raise awareness and drive participation
- Adapting activities to suit different ages, abilities and needs
- Tracking attendance, gathering feedback and measuring impact of programmes
- Helping to plan and evaluate community projects or multi-week programmes
- Assisting with marketing campaigns to promote sessions, events or initiatives
- Maintaining safe, inclusive and welcoming environments for all participants
- Administrative tasks linked to planning, monitoring and evaluating activities
- Ensuring safeguarding, equality and health and safety practices are always followed
Where you'll work
23 GLOUCESTER ROAD
BOOTLE
L20 9AH
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)
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
Level 4 School Sports Coach Apprenticeship Standard.
Sector specific CPD, such as:
- Multi-skills coaching - practical coaching skills
- Behaviour management
- Community engagement and inclusion training
- Volunteer recruitment and support
- Outreach and behaviour-change approaches
- Safeguarding/prevent
- Mental health and wellbeing
Requirements
Essential 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
- Customer care skills
- Presentation skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
- Some travel across community sites may be required
- Evening or weekend work may be needed depending on community programmes
The successful applicant will receive:
- An allocated mentor
- Access to internal training
- Access to apprenticeship training delivered by Aspire Training Solutions
- Allocated learning hours during the working week
This role is subject to an enhanced DBS check.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect applicants to share this commitment.
About this employer
Who they are
South Liverpool Community Coaching C.I.C. is a Liverpool-based sports coaching organisation focused heavily on football, schools, community sport and fitness. Their website says they currently coach 600+ people every week and work with participants from around age 3 through to adults.
They offer:
⚽ Community football for children aged 3–12
🏫 School programmes including football, gymnastics, dodgeball and multi-sports
⚽ Junior football teams
🏕️ Holiday football camps
👥 Private/team training
💪 Adult fitness classes
📱 An online fitness app/membership
Opportunities linked to South Liverpool FC
They are also running sessions across multiple community venues, including Jericho Lane Hub and Rhys Jones Community Centre, as well as school-based provision.
Their football operation
They have a particularly strong junior football pathway. Their foundation programme is aimed at Reception and Year 1, with UEFA-qualified coaches delivering weekly sessions and supporting matchdays. They also actively develop parents into future team managers, including funding qualifications such as DBS, safeguarding and first aid.
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 to gain the skills, experience and confidence needed for:
- Careers in community sport, coaching or physical activity programmes
- Roles within local authorities, leisure providers, charities and community organisations
- Opportunities to progress into Level 4+ coaching, community development or management roles
- Potential further employment with the organisation
- Further education or professional development
- Successful completion enables eligibility to apply for CIMSPA Practitioner membership
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 VAC2000054203.
Apply now
Closes in 20 days (Thursday 8 October 2026 at 11:59pm)