Sports Swim Apprentice (Level 4)
TIME 4 SPORT UK LTD
Stoke On Trent (ST4 6NL)
Closes in 7 days (Sunday 8 February 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 30 January 2026
Contents
Summary
Are you passionate about swimming, physical activity and improving community wellbeing?
Do you enjoy inspiring children and families to lead healthier, more active lives?
Are you enthusiastic, reliable and keen to build a rewarding career in community sport and health?
- Wage
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£13,741 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
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£7.55–£8.00 per hour (first 12 months)
National Minimum Wage (months 13–18)29 days holiday per year + statutory sick pay
Business mileage paid
Overtime paid pro rata - Training course
- Sports coach (level 4)
- Hours
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• Location: Stoke-on-Trent (office-based and community delivery venues)
• Hours:
• Term time: 35 hours per week (Monday–Friday)
• School holidays: 35–40 hours per week
• 20% of time allocated to apprenticeship learning
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 16 February 2026
- Duration
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1 year 8 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
Time4Sport are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic Apprentice Community Sports & Swimming Coach to join our growing team. This apprenticeship offers an exciting opportunity to develop professional coaching, leadership and wellbeing skills while making a real difference to communities across Staffordshire and Cheshire.
Working alongside experienced coaches and mentors, you will support the delivery of high-quality swimming, physical activity, sport and wellbeing programmes that encourage participation, confidence and lifelong healthy habits for children and families.
This role is ideal for someone who is passionate about swimming, community sport and health, and who wants to grow into a long-term career within the sport, leisure and wellbeing sector.
Key Responsibilities
As an Apprentice Community Sports & Swimming Coach, you will:
- Support the planning and delivery of swimming, physical activity, sport and wellbeing sessions for children and families
- Work collaboratively with community partners, leisure providers and health-focused organisations
- Assist a Senior Coach to deliver engaging, inclusive and participant-centred sessions
- Complete swimming teaching and lifeguard training.
- Contribute to Time4Wellbeing programmes, holiday activity camps and community events
- Support promotional activity, including social media and digital content
- Attend regular apprenticeship workshops and complete work-based projects and presentations
- Support enrichment activities and community sporting events
- Always uphold safeguarding, health and safety, and inclusion standards
Essential Requirements
- Aged 17+ Due to driving requirements
- Full driving licence and access to a vehicle
- Minimum GCSE grade 4/C in PE, Maths and English (or equivalent)
- Willingness to obtain and maintain a clean DBS
- Flexible approach and commitment to high standards
- Previous experience or qualifications in sport, PE or swimming (desirable)
- A keen interest in swimming teaching.
Where you'll work
Michelin Sports Centre Rosetree Avenue Trent Vale
Stoke On Trent
ST4 6NL
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
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.
Training schedule
You will be fully supported through a comprehensive apprenticeship programme, including:
- Level 4 Community Sports Coach Apprenticeship
- Level 2 Swim England Teacher Qualification
- Level 3 Pool Lifeguard Qualification
Level 2 Award in Multi-Skills Coaching - Level 2 Safeguarding Children
Paediatric First Aid - Ongoing CPD, mentoring and professional development
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Desirable qualifications
BTEC 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
- Customer care skills
- Patience
- Physical fitness
- Interest - Swimming & Teaching
- Ambitious
- Enthusiastic
- Positive Role Model
- Working with Children
Other requirements
Essential Requirements
- Aged 17+ Due to driving requirements
- Full driving licence and access to a vehicle
- Minimum GCSE grade 4/C in PE, Maths and English (or equivalent)
- Willingness to obtain and maintain a clean DBS
- Flexible approach and commitment to high standards
- Previous experience or qualifications in sport, PE or swimming (desirable)
- A keen interest in swimming teaching.
About this employer
Established in 2007, Time4Sport was founded with a passion for improving the lives of children and families through physical activity, sport and healthy living. We are now one of Staffordshire and Cheshire’s leading providers of holiday camps, swimming programmes and community physical activity initiatives.
Each week, over 7,500 children and families benefit from our services, supporting healthier, happier and more active communities.
“Simply the best” – Mr Drew, Springcroft Primary SchoolOur Values
Culture: We nurture, educate, innovate and inspire through teamwork, excellence and ambition.
Purpose: Providing a fitter, healthier and happier future.
Vision: To nurture healthier communities through health education, physical activity, swimming and sport.
Mission: To encourage healthy lifestyles among children and families through inclusive, engaging and high-quality programmes.
http://www.time4sportuk.com (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
- Nike uniform, equipment and laptop provided
- Free parking
- Employee Assistance Programme
- VIVUP lifestyle and wellbeing benefits
- Free childcare passes*
- Discounted gym membership
After this apprenticeship
Successful completion of the apprenticeship can lead to:
- Employment as a full time swimming teacher or Community Sports, Swimming or Health & Wellbeing Coach.
- Progression within Time4Sport’s coaching and leadership pathways
- A long-term career in the sport, leisure, swimming and community wellbeing sector
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ASPIRE TRAINING SOLUTIONS (UK) LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000011846.
Apply now
Closes in 7 days (Sunday 8 February 2026 at 11:59pm)