PE & Sports Coach Apprentice

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 school, deliver extra-curricular clubs/lunch clubs, & support our sports competitions.

Wage

£14,526.20 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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national minimum wage from 12 months onwards

Training course

Sports coach (level 4)

Hours

Monday to Friday at Boldmere Infant/Junior during term time. Timetables will be designed to fit requirements. The apprentices will also work at holiday activity camps locally during the school holidays.

36 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

1 year 8 months

Positions available

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

Are you passionate about sports and physical activity? Do you love working with children to make a difference and impact on their learning and wellbeing? Can you be a positive role model to inspire and motivate children? Would you relish the opportunity to work alongside a friendly, supportive and hard-working team? If so, our apprenticeship opportunity may be perfect for you! This is an excellent opportunity for a flexible, creative and committed individual to join our happy, vibrant and skilful team. We have two vacancies available to work as full time sports coaches in Boldmere Infant and Junior Schools (one predominantly working in each venue).

The Sports Coach apprentice has an important role to play in improving the health and wellbeing of children, families and communities by delivering fun, inclusive and engaging activities that help to bring about a change in physical activity habits. They will use extensive technical and tactical sports knowledge and skills to design and deliver coaching programmes that engage, motivate and evolve participants’ skills and performance.

During this programme, Apprentices will engage in training that will develop and enhance their coaching skills and equip them to work in a variety of environments. In addition to this, there will also be a unique opportunity for candidates to engage in training that will develop and enhance their classroom practice/teaching skills so they can deliver whole class teaching for PE.

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 upon. These results are used to create a 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
Support/lead extra-curricular activities
Assist with school games competitions & events
Run/organise and support physical activity and engagement at break and lunch times
Supporting the delivery of high quality and inclusive PE lessons to pupils in school in line with the requirements of the national curriculum for PE and the profile of needs across the pupil population
Delivering interventions for pupils who are part of the Boldmere Inclusion Base (specific facility for pupils diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder)
Support the delivery of holiday activity provision as part of Aspire's Active Camp programme
Administration tasks related to planning and evaluating coaching activities/projects
Safeguard children at all times
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 other staff in managing pupil behaviour, reporting difficulties as appropriate
Attend training sessions as required for CPD purposes

Where you'll work

Cofield Road
Sutton Coldfield
B73 5SD

Training

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

College or training organisation

ASPIRE TRAINING SOLUTIONS (UK) LIMITED

Your 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.

Your training plan

The blended learning delivery design encompasses a range of methods to engage apprentices and offers a rich and exciting programme. Your training programme will involve:

Level 4 School Sports Coach Apprenticeship Standard & qualification

Sector specific CPD, such as:

Multi-skills Coaching qualification
Supporting the PE curriculum
Behaviour Management
Practical PE Curriculum
Outdoor adventurous activities
Gymnastics
Dance
Safeguarding / Prevent
Mental Health and Wellbeing

Functional Skills in maths and English (where required)

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths & English (grade 4)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Presentation skills
Administrative skills
Logical
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience
Physical fitness
Working with children

Other requirements

Candidates must be confident and happy to travel to and from the school location each day and to local holiday camp venues during the school holidays. 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. Boldmere have an Inclusion Base on site, working with pupils who have a diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Candidates with experience working with children with SEN is therefore highly desirable (but not essential), as is confidence/experience of working with younger children / early years.

About this company

We have a great opportunity for two apprentices to be based full time in Boldmere Infant and Junior School. The Federation of Boldmere is an inclusive three-form entry setting, comprising of our Nursery & Infant School, Boldmere Inclusion Base (BIB) and Boldmere Junior School, all of which are located on the same site. We are situated in the Sutton Coldfield area of Birmingham. We offer places for children between the ages of 3-11 years and in addition to our mainstream classes have our Inclusion Base for children diagnosed with ASD. Aspire Active Education Group are a sport specialist coaching provider. We believe that combating inactivity requires a shift in attitudes and participation trends, both at home and at school. Simply, if physical activity were a pill, doctors would be rushing to prescribe it. But there are no magic pills. We're driven by a deep passion to engage children and young people in physical activity and inspire active lives. Our customer-centric delivery, training and partner framework not only boosts their health and well-being but also empowers them to excel academically. Every single day, we're committed to getting more than 1 million young people moving and enjoying the benefits of physical activity by the year 2025.

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After this apprenticeship

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

Nikki Clamp

nikki.clamp@aspiretrainingsolutions.co.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000318412.

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