Level 4 School Sports Coach Apprentice

Summary

Our PE & Sports coach apprentice has an important role to play in improving the health & wellbeing of children by delivering fun, inclusive and engaging activities that help to change physical activity habits. The apprentice will support the delivery of PE in school, deliver extra-curricular clubs/lunch clubs, & support our sports competitions.

Wage

£14,918.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices

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National Minimum Wage from 12 months onwards Multiple sites in Watford. This candidate must be able to travel to Watford, WD17 3PD

Training course

Sports coach (level 4)

Hours

37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday, term time + 2 weeks 30 of these hours will be for practical delivery with Challenge 7.5 hours dedicated to work

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

1 year 8 months

Positions available

2

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

Are you interested in pursuing a career in teaching, sports coaching or working within the education / childcare industry?

If so, but aren’t sure on where to get started or how to develop the skills required, this apprenticeship is perfect for you.

We ensure that by the time your apprenticeship finishes, you will be in a position, from a skills point of view, to obtain a full-time position either as a PE coach or a PE teacher within the education industry.

By the end of the apprenticeship you will:

· Be able to deliver national curriculum PE to EYFS – Year 6 students (3-11 year olds)

· Be confident engaging with teachers, pupils and parents

· Have experienced leading your own after school clubs, providing pathways to you generating additional income from your school network

· Led on and delivered holiday courses

· Experienced a wide range of behaviour management techniques and developed your own style of coaching

· Worked with SEN students

Personality Traits:
Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate the below personality traits:

· A positive energy and an 'aura' that will inspire children to participate in sport

· The ability to demonstrate a positive, can do, attitude

· Great communication skills

· A warm personality towards children

· A positive energy and an 'aura' that will inspire children to participate in sport

Months 0-3:
For the first three months you will be working in schools with our team of coaches. You will be:

Shadowing and team teaching PE sessions (never unsupervised)
Leading lunch clubs / after school clubs (as part of a wider team)
Working as part of the after school childcare team

Goals:
● For you to understand and feel comfortable in applying 6 x principles of good practice PE in sessions
● For you to understand the ‘non coaching’ success principles of working within primary schools
● For you to understand and be able to demonstrate a range of transferable games

By the end of Month 3, you should have the knowledge to plan a session and apply the following 6 principles into your delivery.

Months 3-6
You will continue to develop as above, however by the end of six months you should be able to lead clubs confidently unsupervised and cover coaches in certain schools to lead PE sessions

Months 6-12
You will continue to develop as above, however by the end of a year you should have your own portfolio of schools and be working independently in schools for at least 20% of your time.

By the end of 12 months you should have the skills required to have your own portfolio of schools

By the end of 20 months, you should have the skills required to work full time within a primary school setting, as a PE coach / teacher.

Multiple sites in Watford. This candidate must be able to travel to Watford, WD17 3PD
Candidates must be confident and happy to travel to and from the school location each day. Please only apply for this apprenticeship if the location suits your mode of transport and travel times etc.

Where you'll work

Bellmount Wood Avenue
Watford
WD17 3PD

Training

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

College or training organisation

ASPIRE TRAINING SOLUTIONS (UK) LIMITED

Your 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.

Your training plan

Level 4 School Sports Coach Apprenticeship Standard

Sector specific CPD, such as;

· Multi skills coaching - practical coaching skills

· Behaviour Management

· Practical PE Curriculum

· Outdoor adventurous activities

· Gymnastics

· Dance

· Safeguarding / Prevent

· Mental Health and Wellbeing

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade C or 4)
Maths (grade C or 4)

Desirable qualifications

BTEC in:

Sports (grade Pass)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
Organisation skills
Presentation skills
Team working
Physical fitness
Positive Role Model
Working with Children
Inspiring for Children

Other requirements

The successful applicant will receive: Allocated mentor Access to internal training provided by the employer Access to apprenticeship training delivered by Aspire Training Solutions (as outlined above) Allocated learning hours within the working week We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and anyone applying to work with us is expected to share this commitment. Therefore, this position is subject to receipt of an enhanced DBS disclosure.

About this company

During term time we deliver PE, after-school clubs and wraparound childcare within primary schools. During non term time we run holiday courses. Working with us allow apprentices to: Receive on-the-job upskilling and training Experience the demands of being a school teacher / primary school coach / working with children Generate additional revenue streams within their school networks

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After this apprenticeship

You will have the skills required to obtain full time work within the school / education industry.

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