School Sports Coach Apprentice (Level 4)
MOVING MATTERS LONDON LIMITED
London (SW16 2UW)
Closes in 28 days (Friday 14 August 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 15 July 2026
Contents
Summary
Our PE & Sports coach apprentices have an important role to play in improving the health & wellbeing of children by delivering fun, inclusive and engaging activities that help to change physical activity habits. The apprentice will support the delivery of PE in schools, deliver extra-curricular clubs and lunch clubs, and work in our holiday camps.
- Wage
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£15,600 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
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Additional pay enhancements will be based on performance.
- Training course
- Sports coach (level 4)
- Hours
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- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability
- Working hours to be confirmed
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 September 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
School Sport Coaches design and deliver coaching programmes that focus on the acceleration of sustainable mastery of children’s psychomotor skills and wider physical education standards. They profile children’s cognitive, social, emotional and physical development needs. They measure psychomotor, technical and tactical skills in a range of physical activity contexts drawn from the Department for Education’s National Curriculum to enable physical education targets to be agreed. These results are used to create a high-level curriculum plan that considers school term schedules and a ‘whole child’ development approach.
The nature of roles and responsibilities for this role may include:
- Working directly with pupils of all ages
- Working collaboratively with a wide range of partner organisations and industry specialists
- Planning and delivering programmes of physical activity for pupils, families and communities
- Performing physical activity and fundamental movement skills baseline and impact assessments of children
- Supporting the delivery of high quality and inclusive PE lessons to pupils in schools in line with the requirements of national curriculum for PE and the profile of needs across the pupil population
- Delivering an exciting extracurricular sports and activity programme including lunchtime activities in schools/communities/leisure facilities
- Offering family engagement projects for physical activity
- Delivering provision to enhance the mental health, self-esteem and wellbeing of service users
- Supporting competitive sports events
- Coordinating sports and physical activity related projects
- Safeguard children at all times
- Contribute to the overall ethos and working values of the school
- Contribute to raising standards by ensuring high expectations are shared with children
- Supervise and support pupils ensuring their safety, by complying with good H&S practice
- Support the teachers and coaches in managing pupil behaviour, reporting difficulties as appropriate
- Attend all training sessions as required for CPD purposes
This role is based in Lambeth, Great London. Apprentices must have a reliable commute or plan to relocate before starting the role.
We are looking to recruit an apprentice to join our growing team for the 2026/27 academic year. The successful candidates will train and develop with Moving Matters, building knowledge and confidence across a range of delivery areas. Our aim is to develop our apprentices into full time coaches within our workforce.
The ideal candidate will have a passion for sport and PE, a strong work ethic, willingness to learn and excellent inter-personal skills.
We aim to develop our apprentices quickly, so they can take on responsibilities such as leading clubs and PE lessons in school and at camps.
Where you'll work
Sunnyhill Primary School
Sunnyhill Road
London
SW16 2UW
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
The training provider (Aspire Training Solutions) offers a blended learning delivery design which encompasses a range of methods to engage apprentices and offers a rich and exciting programme. Your training programme with them will involve:
- Level 4 School Sports Coach
- Level 2 Award in Multi-skills Coaching/Development in Sport
Sector specific CPD, such as:
- Supporting the PE curriculum
- Behaviour Management
- Practical PE Curriculum
- Gymnastics
- Dance
- Safeguarding/prevention
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Functional skills in maths and English (where required)
- You will receive dedicated study time and a skills coach to support with coursework and assignments
- Professional recognition: On successful completion of the Standard, all Apprentices will be automatically given CIMSPA (Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity) at Affiliate Member level
- Moving Matters allocate a mentor to work with you for the duration of the apprenticeship offering advice, support and guidance on both a work and personal level
Requirements
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
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Patience
- Physical fitness
- Working with Children
- Positive Role Model
Other requirements
Ability to commute: Lambeth area schools/venues.
Work Location: In person.
Candidates must be confident and happy to travel to and from the school location(s) each day. Please only apply for this apprenticeship if the location suits your mode of transport and travel times etc.
This post will involve physical activity so will require apprentices to be interested and passionate about sports and physical activity and have sufficient a level of fitness. Candidates will need to be eager to work with children to enable their participation in activity.
About this employer
Moving Matters is a sports coaching company based in Lambeth, Greater London. Our goal is to get more children, more active, more often and we have a fantastic team of coaches focused on achieveing that ambition. We are looking to recruit 2 new apprentices to join our growing team for the 2025-26 academic year. The successful candidates will train and develop with Moving Matters, building knoweldge and confidence across a range of delivery areas. Our aim is to develop our apprentices into full time coaches within our workforce. We are a young and diverse team, eager to support each other develop and grow. Visit our website or our social media channels, to find out more about our company.
http://www.moving-matters.org (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free or subsidised travel
- Work from home
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Opportunities to progress within the company via increased responsibility and promotions with a clear exit route into full-time delivery-based roles within the organisation.
We will support you in your personal and professional development by providing you with the underpinning knowledge, skills and experience for the following:
- Careers within the Sport Coaching industry
- Potential further employment with the employer
- Opportunity for further education
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ASPIRE TRAINING SOLUTIONS (UK) LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000043043.
Apply now
Closes in 28 days (Friday 14 August 2026 at 11:59pm)