Apprentice Sports Provision Assistant (Boxing & Holistic Development)
SWEET SCIENCE ACADEMY LTD
NOTTINGHAM (NG15 7TZ)
Closes in 29 days (Friday 31 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 2 October 2025
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Summary
To support the delivery of inclusive, engaging, and transformative sports-based education for permanently excluded pupils. This role blends hands-on coaching, digital content creation, and learner support, working alongside experienced staff and professional boxing coaches.
- Wage
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£11,778 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
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wage increase incentive for exceptional performance
- Training course
- Community activator coach (level 2)
- Hours
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30 hours per week, days and times to be discussed with the apprentice.
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 3 November 2025
- Duration
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1 year 3 months
- Positions available
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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
- Assist in delivering boxing sessions tailored to neurodiverse and vulnerable learners
- Support setup and breakdown of training environments, including VR and video-based platforms
- Help manage learner engagement during live online classes and seminars
- Contribute to the creation of educational content (e.g., diagrams, voiceovers, video uploads)
- Shadow professional coaches during one-on-one sessions and seminars
- Support learners in completing platform-based boxing levels and qualifications
- Help moderate forums and discussions on boxing technique, psychology, and lifestyle
- Participate in planning and running VIP events, DJ sessions, and mental health seminars
- Assist in filming and editing learner progress videos for platform uploads
- Promote learner achievements and academy events via social media and internal platforms
- Uphold safeguarding, inclusion, and wellbeing standards at all times
Where you'll work
UNITS 24-25 MANCOR HOUSE
BOLSOVER STREET
HUCKNALL
NOTTINGHAM
NG15 7TZ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
IGNITE SPORT 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
Training will take place via monthly online interactive workshops with your apprenticeship tutor, with one-to-one support from an experienced skills coach.
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
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Passion for sport
- Empathy
Other requirements
● Experience working with young people or in community settings ● Interest in mental health, music, cooking, or creative arts ● Familiarity with VR, AI, or video editing platforms ● Knowledge of boxing techniques or training principles
About this employer
At Sweet Science Academy, we believe every young person deserves the opportunity to thrive—regardless of their background, challenges, or circumstances. Founded in January 2024, we set out to create an environment where young people aged 13+ can re-engage with learning, rebuild confidence, and unlock their full potential. Our approach is rooted in compassion, structure, and resilience. We combine alternative education with the powerful discipline of sport—specifically boxing—to deliver a holistic programme that nurtures both academic progress and personal growth.
https://sweetscienceacademy.co.uk/proof/index.php (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Free gym membership.
After this apprenticeship
- Explore pathways into coaching, youth work, or digital content creation
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SWEET SCIENCE ACADEMY LTD
jonathan marritt
contactsweetsciencecombat@gmail.com
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000344465.
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Closes in 29 days (Friday 31 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
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