Sports Apprentice with Swimming Specialism (Community Activator Coach)
ASPIRE ACTIVE EDUCATION GROUP LIMITED
BIRMINGHAM (B24 9PB)
Closes in 13 days (Tuesday 2 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 19 August 2025
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Summary
The Sports Coach with Swim Specialism has an important role to play in improving the health and wellbeing of children, families and communities by supporting the delivery of swim sessions/projects. Working alongside our Aquarius staff, you will learn how to plan, deliver and review sessions (swim lessons) and also work on our holiday camps.
- Wage
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£11,778 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Community activator coach (level 2)
- Hours
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Flexible to include some evenings and weekends. Shifts to be confirmed.
You will be required to travel around sites across various sites across Birmingham to visit the pop-up pools.
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 3 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 3 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
Are you passionate about sport and physical activity and specifically have a love for swimming?
Do you love working with children to make a difference and impact on their learning and wellbeing?
Can you be a positive role model to inspire and motivate children?
Would you relish the opportunity to work alongside a friendly, supportive and hard-working team? If so, our Community Activator Coach apprenticeship opportunity may be perfect for you!
The Community Activator Apprentice with Swimming specialism has an important role to play in improving the health and wellbeing of children, families and communities by supporting the delivery of fun, inclusive and engaging sessions using our swimming pools. Working alongside our Aquarius Pool Supervisors and swim teachers, this apprenticeship will give you an introduction into the world of swim teaching. Along the apprenticeship journey, you will learn how to plan, deliver and review sessions. We will fund your swim teacher qualification. You will get a diverse opportunity to develop your wider coaching skills during your work on our Active Holiday camps during school holidays.
Key duties include:
Working directly with members of the public to plan and deliver a range of projects and activities within our leisure centre(s) with the aim of increasing the participation of a variety of groups in sport and physical activity, with a specific focus on swimming and aquatics
These could involve:
- Extra-curricular swimming lessons for children, primarily in key station 1 and 2
- Supporting our swimming curriculum for schools
- Adult swimming lessons
- Swimming galas and festivals
- Pool inflatable fun sessions
- Water polo
- Aquatots parents and toddlers
- Providing additional support in the pool to children with SEND needs to ensure inclusivity of the program
- To support on organising community and competitive events
- Working collaboratively with a wide range of partner organisations
- Supporting the delivery and coordination of our holiday activity and HAF schemes for children
- Providing swimming duty cover where required
- Begin developing skills in supervisory duties within the swim school, working closely with the pool supervisors to help manage progression and positively impact retention levels
- Use of technology to engage pupils with physical activity and sports especially swimming
- Contribute to the overall ethos and working values of the Foundation
- Contribute to raising standards by demonstrating and promoting high expectations
- Supervise and support members of the public, ensuring their safety by complying with good H&S practice
- To undertake all training and courses associated with the apprenticeship programme
Where you'll work
UNIT 6
HOLLY PARK INDUSTRIA
SPITFIRE ROAD
BIRMINGHAM
B24 9PB
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
Community activator coach (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Planning and adapting sessions and activities that respond to customer feedback and encourage customers to develop a lifelong activity habit.
- Coaching or leading pre-planned sport or physical activity sessions that are attractive to the target audience(s) and develop motivational relationships with customers.
- Promoting a physical activity offer, (including but not exclusively) organised play and sport in the community which supports individuals on their behaviour change journey.
- Working collaboratively with sports clubs and other community assets – including volunteers, public services, youth workers, the police and community champions.
- Supporting customers to co-produce rewarding volunteering opportunities.
- Supporting families to participate together in sport and physical activity.
- Working effectively with customer insight to overcome individual, community and societal barriers to participation in physical activity and sport.
- Contributing to the employer’s design of activities and services and practising the employer’s organisation’s values, policies and procedures.
- Contributing to teams that deliver community events and festivals.
- Supporting organisations to evaluate, develop and promote sessions and other opportunities such as outdoor group exercise and informal social play.
- Maintaining personal safety and wellbeing, as well as that of customers.
- Managing disruptive behaviours from individuals within the group setting.
- Encouraging customers to be regularly active – both formally and informally – within sports clubs or leisure facilities including open-space.
- Effectively using social media and technology, appropriately, to deliver targeted messages to identified customer groups for example children, teenagers, adults and older adults.
- Effectively monitor and evaluate activities, sessions and projects using technology platforms to maintain accurate records and produce timely reports.
Training schedule
Our apprentices will receive weekly off the job training hours in order to engage with masterclasses, skills festival days, assignments and tasks related to the apprenticeship, online CPD courses and development sessions with their allocated skills coach.
They will acheive the Level 2 Community Activator Coach Apprenticeship Standard with Swimming Specialism alongside sector specific CPD, such as:
- STA Level 2 Swim Teacher qualification
- Pool maintenance and water testing CPD
- Supporting the PE curriculum (swimming focussed)
- Behaviour Management
- Safeguarding / Prevent
- Mental Health and Wellbeing
- Digital skills
- Functional skills in maths and English (where required)
More training information
Lifeguard qualification
Requirements
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
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
- Swimming
Other requirements
All applicants will need to demonstrate their ability to keep themselves safe in and around water We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and anyone applying to work across our school settings is expected to share this commitment. Therefore, this position is subject to receipt of an enhanced DBS disclosure and relevant references.
About this employer
Combating inactivity requires a shift in attitudes and participation trends, both at home and at school. Simply, if physical activity were a pill, doctors would be rushing to prescribe it. But there are no magic pills. We're driven by a deep passion to engage children and young people in physical activity and inspire active lives. Our customer-centric delivery, training and partner framework not only boosts their health and well-being but also empowers them to excel academically. Every single day, we're committed to getting more than 1 million young people moving and enjoying the benefits of physical activity by the year 2025.
After this apprenticeship
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/education sector
- Potential further employment with the organisation
- Opportunity for further education
- Opportunity to progress to become a swim teacher
- Opportunity to become a pool supervisor
- Opportunity to diversify into wider sports coaching roles and potentially progress onto the Level 4 Sports Coach apprenticeship
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ASPIRE TRAINING SOLUTIONS (UK) LIMITED
Lauren Delday
lauren.delday@aaeg.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000337942.
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Closes in 13 days (Tuesday 2 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
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