Sports Coach L4 Apprentice

ROBWHEN COACHING LTD

Essex (CO3 3GB)

Closes in 27 days (Monday 7 September 2026)

Posted on 3 August 2026

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Summary

Do you have a passion for sports and working with children? Join Super Star Sport, where fun, positivity, enthusiasm, and safety are our core values. As a coach, you’ll inspire and engage children, helping them develop skills and confidence through exciting sports sessions.

• Wage:

  £6,656 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

  National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices

  Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)

  N/A

• Training course: Sports coach (level 4)
• Hours: TBC at the interview stage.

  16 hours a week

• Start date:

  Thursday 1 October 2026

• Duration:

  1 year 6 months

• Positions available:

  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 Role - As a Sports Coach at Super Star Sport, you will:

• Deliver fun, high-quality sports sessions to children of all ages
• Create a positive, safe, and energetic environment
• Encourage participation, confidence, and skill development
• Work in schools, holiday camps, and community settings
• Be a positive role model and ambassador for the company

✅ WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR You should have:

• A passion for sport and working with children
• Energy, reliability, and a positive attitude
• Confidence leading groups and delivering activities
• Good communication and teamwork skills
• A willingness to learn and develop

Desirable (but not essential):

• Coaching qualifications
• Experience working with children
• First Aid qualification
• Enhanced DBS (or willingness to obtain one)

🎁 WHAT WE OFFER

• Competitive pay
• Full training and support
• Flexible hours to fit around your schedule
• Opportunities for progression
• A fun, supportive team environment
• The chance to make a real difference in children’s lives

Where you'll work

Superstar Sports
Colchester
Colchester
Essex
CO3 3GB

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

SCL EDUCATION & TRAINING LIMITED

Training course

Sports coach (level 4)

Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)

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

Sports Coach Level 4.

The apprentice will receive a full on the job training from the employer as well as 20 % off the job training, they will also receive a full wrap around service from SCL.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

• Maths (grade 4)
• English (grade 4)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

• Communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Team working
• Physical fitness

Other requirements

This is a physical role; the ideal candidate must have a passion for Sports Coaching.

About this employer

Super Star Sport is a coaching organisation founded in 2011 with the aim to inspire the future! We are the leading UK supplier of nursery sports coaching, delivering fun and engaging sports sessions for children in many settings across the country. We follow the Early Years guidelines, and our sessions are OFSTED-approved. As a company, we also provide a wide range of other sports and educational services, including sport provision within primary schools, children’s centres, and other childcare settings. Additionally, we run weekend sports sessions, youth football teams, and exciting sports birthday parties.

After this apprenticeship

Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).

The apprentice can progress on to the next level once they have completed their apprenticeship.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

SCL EDUCATION & TRAINING LIMITED

Jo Gray

Jo.Gray@wearescl.co.uk

07586195152

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000046074.

Apply now

Closes in 27 days (Monday 7 September 2026)

After signing in, you’ll apply for this apprenticeship on the company's website.