Sports Coach Apprentice
SFKMULTISPORTS LTD
Leicester (LE5 4PP)
Closes in 14 days (Friday 27 February 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 11 February 2026
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Summary
Are you passionate about sport and inspiring young people? This apprenticeship offers the opportunity to work as a lead school sports coach delivering PE, lunchtime sport and after-school clubs for female pupils, with optional Swim:ED pathway training.
- Wage
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£7,852 to £12,698.40, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Sports coach (level 4)
- Hours
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20 hours per week.
Monday - Friday, term time + 2 weeks. Shifts to be confirmed.
20 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 23 March 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
The School Sports Coach Apprentice will work as a lead coach, delivering high-quality physical education and school sport provision primarily within an independent faith school.
Due to the nature of the role, this position involves working independently with pupils and supporting activities where privacy, dignity and safeguarding are essential.
Key responsibilities include:
- Delivering high-quality, inclusive PE lessons in line with the National Curriculum
- Leading lunchtime sport and after-school clubs for female pupils
- Planning and delivering engaging coaching programmes to support physical, social and emotional development
- Supporting and leading extracurricular activities, school games competitions and events
- Running and supporting physical activity at break and lunchtime
- Supporting whole-class PE teaching where required
- Providing cover for PE and sports staff when absent
- Preparing, maintaining and safely managing PE equipment and resources
- Supporting swimming-based activity programmes where required (training provided)
- Maintaining accurate records relating to planning, delivery and evaluation
- Supporting pupil behaviour and promoting high standards of engagement
- Working collaboratively with teaching staff and external partners
- Safeguarding children at all times and adhering to all school policies
This role may involve supporting the organisation's swimming programmes. Candidates with an NPLQ or swimming experience is desirable, however, not essential.
Based between two locations:
Leicester LE2 / LE5.
A full UK driving licence is required.
Where you'll work
The Wayne Way
Leicester
LE5 4PP
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
- Level 4 School Sports Coach Apprenticeship Standard
- Sector specific CPD, such as:
- Multi skills coaching - practical coaching skills
- Behaviour Management
- Practical PE Curriculum
- Outdoor adventurous activities
- Gymnastics
- Dance
- Safeguarding / Prevent
- Mental Health and Wellbeing
- Optional Swim:ED pathway, including:
Swim Teacher qualification
Training will be delivered through a blended model, including online learning, practical workshops, skills festival days and workplace mentoring.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
BTEC in:
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Physical fitness
- Working with Children
- Knowledge of sports coaching
- Positive Role Model
Other requirements
This role is open to female applicants only.
Due to the nature of the role, which involves working independently with primarily female pupils in an independent faith school environment, including delivery of physical education and sporting activities where privacy, dignity and safeguarding are essential, this post is subject to a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) under Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010.
A full UK driving licence is required.
The successful applicant will receive:
- Allocated mentor
- Access to internal training provided by the employer
- Access to apprenticeship training delivered by Aspire Training Solutions (as outlined above)
- Allocated learning hours within the working week
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and anyone applying to work with us is expected to share this commitment. Therefore, this position is subject to receipt of an enhanced DBS disclosure.
About this employer
With over 20 years of experience in sport, SFK Sport Group delivers high-quality school sport and physical activity programmes across schools and communities. We work in partnership with schools to provide engaging, inclusive and well-structured coaching that supports pupils’ physical development, confidence and wellbeing.
Our approach is built on quality, consistency and progression, creating clear pathways from grassroots participation through to higher performance opportunities. Through innovative and inspiring school sport provision, we aim to develop skills, encourage lifelong participation and make a positive impact on young people’s lives.
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 industry
- Careers within the Education sector including Behaviour & Learning Mentors, Teaching Assistants and Primary Teaching
- Potential further employment with the employer
- Opportunity for further education
- Candidates successfully achieving this apprenticeship will be eligible to apply for membership with the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA) as a Practitioner
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ASPIRE TRAINING SOLUTIONS (UK) LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000014703.
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Closes in 14 days (Friday 27 February 2026 at 11:59pm)