Apprentice Sports Coach
SPORTSPLAYMOTION LTD
Edgware (NW9 7ND)
Closes on Thursday 1 January 2026
Posted on 25 November 2025
Contents
Summary
The Coach will be responsible for supporting sports coaching sessions and managing different age groups. Working in schools, nurseries, parks and other institutions to deliver high-quality sports provision.
- Wage
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£9,815 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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Monday to Saturday 9-7:30 PM shift work, typically 5 hours across 5 days. Sessions where the successful candidates work are broken into 2 hrs sessions, 1.5 hr sessions.
25 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 5 January 2026
- Duration
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1 year 6 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
- Preparing and delivering sport and physical activity sessions.
- Session planning.
- Promoting activities and projects via on-street leafleting.
- Working collaboratively with Senior Management & Team Leaders to successfully carry out a timetable.
- Working effectively with the young people to support them overcome individual and societal barriers to participation in sport and physical activity.
- Being an effective team player when delivering community sports events and festivals.
Where you'll work
Princes Park Football Club
Edgware
NW9 7ND
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SPORT STRUCTURES EDUCATION COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY
Training course
Community activator coach (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Promote the benefits of a healthy lifestyle and physical activity for individuals and communities.
- Encourage individuals' participation, motivation and to change their behaviour towards sport or physical activity.
- Contribute to inclusive, safe and effective sessions.
- Plan, follow, adapt, and deliver session plans, based on participant needs and feedback.
- Use coaching styles for sport or physical activity sessions meeting the participants needs and motivations.
- Promote the benefits of a lifelong activity habit.
- Use techniques to build rapport with participants.
- Carry out the tasks required before, during and after a community activity.
- Support participants to overcome personal or societal barriers.
- Manage individuals' behaviours within a group setting.
- Work collaboratively with services and other community organisations to run events that make the best use resources.
- Record and store data and information, in line with legislation and organisational policies and procedures.
- Use suitable digital technology to deliver targeted messages to participant groups.
- Adapt communication methods to meet the needs of participants and groups.
- Identify and respond to safeguarding concerns within own scope of role and in line with organisational protocols.
- Support equity, diversity and inclusion in line with legislation and organisational policies.
- Support the mental health and wellbeing of self and participants.
- Comply with health and safety legislation, regulations, risk assessment procedures, guidelines and procedures.
- Participate in personal and professional development.
- Maintain professional boundaries within scope of own role.
- Monitor and review the effectiveness of activity sessions.
- Assist with the resolution of challenges and problems.
- Promote the benefits of a healthy lifestyle and physical activity for individuals and communities.
- Encourage individuals' participation, motivation and to change their behaviour towards sport or physical activity.
- Contribute to inclusive, safe and effective sessions.
- Plan, follow, adapt, and deliver session plans, based on participant needs and feedback.
- Use coaching styles for sport or physical activity sessions meeting the participants needs and motivations.
- Promote the benefits of a lifelong activity habit.
- Use techniques to build rapport with participants.
- Carry out the tasks required before, during and after a community activity.
- Support participants to overcome personal or societal barriers.
- Manage individuals' behaviours within a group setting.
- Work collaboratively with services and other community organisations to run events that make the best use resources.
- Record and store data and information, in line with legislation and organisational policies and procedures.
- Use suitable digital technology to deliver targeted messages to participant groups.
- Adapt communication methods to meet the needs of participants and groups.
- Identify and respond to safeguarding concerns within own scope of role and in line with organisational protocols.
- Support equity, diversity and inclusion in line with legislation and organisational policies.
- Support the mental health and wellbeing of self and participants.
- Comply with health and safety legislation, regulations, risk assessment procedures, guidelines and procedures.
- Participate in personal and professional development.
- Maintain professional boundaries within scope of own role.
- Monitor and review the effectiveness of activity sessions.
- Assist with the resolution of challenges and problems.
Training schedule
- Level 2 Community Activator Coach Standard
- Highfield Functional Skills Level 2 in Maths and English (if necessary)
- Bespoke training programme that meets the standard criteria and is suitable to the employer and the requirements for the role
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade Grade 4 (C) or above)
- Maths (grade grade 4 (C) or above)
Other 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
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
The role is a flexible one and in this role individuals can expect to work varied and unsociable hours, including evenings / weekends, and during school holiday periods. It is unlikely individuals will undertake a regular daily work pattern or set of recurring tasks.
About this employer
Employer Description Established in 2019, SPM has built a reputation for quality and reliability. We offer a broad range of sport and physical activity services to nurseries, groups & schools across London. We work in close partnership with a number of different organisations such as P3 Charity. Our current workforce includes a number of qualified sports coaches. Improving the quality of our delivery is at the heart of all development work. Our drive is to make all the session we deliver of a good standard, whilst encouraging all staff to use their creativity to construct inspiring, engaging and challenging activity sessions for pupils. We are committed to providing training opportunities for all employees and regularly hold in-house sessions to share good practice and ideas. In addition employees are offered the chance to attend additional, relevant courses and workshops. SPM is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
After this apprenticeship
To gain full-time employment.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SPORT STRUCTURES EDUCATION COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000002410.
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Closes on Thursday 1 January 2026
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