Sports Coach Apprentice

Future Stars Coaching

Clevedon (BS21 7SN)

Closes in 14 days (Monday 14 July 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 30 June 2025

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Summary

Become a Future Star as a Level 4 Sports Coach Apprentice! Earn a recognised qualification while gaining hands-on experience in schools, clubs, camps, and more. Plan and deliver fun, active sessions that inspire kids—building skills for a future in coaching, teaching, or childcare.

• Wage:

  £12,955.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

  National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices

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  £7.55 for the first year, with an assessment and possible pay increase after 12 months, in line with increased experience and responsibilities.

• Training course: Sports coach (level 4)
• Hours: Off the job hours: 6.5 hours per week is required, within the 32.5 hours per week.

  32 hours 30 minutes a week

• Start date:

  Monday 28 July 2025

• Duration:

  1 year 6 months

• Positions available:

  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

School-Based Duties:

• Assist in delivering high-quality PE lessons across EYFS, KS1, and KS2
• Provide PPA (Planning, Preparation and Assessment) cover under supervision
• Support the delivery of lunchtime sports and activity sessions
• Assist with pupil physical assessments and monitoring progress
• Work alongside teaching staff to support Teacher CPD and skill development
• Run or support after-school sports clubs and extracurricular activities
• Help with the planning and delivery of inclusive sessions for all ability levels

Club and Community-Based Duties:

• Support with Breakfast Clubs and After School Wrap Around Care
• Help plan and deliver engaging sessions during Holiday Clubs
• Deliver activities and support Mini Stars sessions for younger children (ages 2–5)
• Assist in managing groups of children safely during club hours
• Engage parents and carers with progress updates and feedback when appropriate
• Help ensure all equipment is set up and maintained properly

Where you'll work

2 Linden Road
Clevedon
BS21 7SN

Training

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

College or training organisation

WESTON COLLEGE OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION

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

• You will be pursuing a Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard in Sports Coaching, through Weston College
• As part of this program, you will attend Weston College as instructed, for workshops
• An assessor will conduct on-site observations to evaluate your progress, as well as supporting you in college throughout your apprenticeship
• At the conclusion of your programme, your qualification will be assessed through an apprenticeship assessment

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

• English (grade 4/C+)
• Maths (grade 4/C+)

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
• Team working
• Initiative
• Patience
• Physical fitness
• Leadership potential

Other requirements

Desirable but not essential skills are: • Experience working with children or young people (e.g., coaching, babysitting, volunteering, school placements). • Basic understanding of child development or safeguarding. • Knowledge of a range of sports or physical activities. • First Aid or safeguarding training (training will also be provided if not held).

About this company

Future Stars Coaching is a passionate and community-focused organisation delivering high-quality sports, physical education, and activity programmes to children in schools and local clubs. We aim to inspire the next generation through engaging, educational, and inclusive coaching experiences. Our work covers a wide range of services, including school PE support, wrap-around care, holiday clubs, and specialist coaching programmes tailored to younger and older age groups.

https://www.futurestarscoaching.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

- Expenses paid: Mileage, travel - Weekly Company training - Mentor/Manager Assigned for development - Courses paid for by us – DBS, Safeguarding, first aid, pediatric first aid & prevent training. - Full Future Stars Kit - CPD Staff training

After this apprenticeship

Successful completion of the apprenticeship may lead to a permanent position within Future Stars Coaching, with opportunities to progress into senior coaching, team leadership, or specialised areas.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

WESTON COLLEGE OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION

Weston College Apprenticeships Team

apprenticeships@weston.ac.uk

01934411594

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000328180.

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Closes in 14 days (Monday 14 July 2025 at 11:59pm)

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