Summary
Kick-start your sports coaching career with Premier Education! As an Apprentice Sports Coach, gain hands-on experience delivering PE sessions, earn a coaching qualification, and receive specialist training. With a 30-hour contract and progression, this is a great opportunity for aspiring PE teachers and coaches. Apply now!
Wage
£12,511.10 a year
Training course
Sports coach (level 4)
Hours
A variety of shift patterns to be confirmed at interview
30 hours a week
Start date
Monday 5 May 2025
Duration
1 year 6 months
Positions available
5
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
Apprentice Sports Coach – Premier Education:
As an Apprentice Sports Coach at Premier Education, you’ll inspire children to engage in physical activity while gaining valuable coaching experience and qualifications. This role is ideal for those aspiring to become PE teachers, professional sports coaches, or youth activity leaders.
Your Role:
* You’ll work within our Coaching and Education team, delivering high-quality sports sessions in primary schools, supporting children’s physical development, and promoting a love for movement
* Throughout your apprenticeship, you’ll receive specialist training and ongoing support to help you grow into a confident and skilled coach
Department & Team:
You’ll be part of the Coaching and Education team, working closely with:
* Children & Teachers - Delivering sessions, monitoring progress, and creating a fun learning environment
* Senior Coaches & Mentors - Receiving training, feedback, and support to develop your coaching skills
* Parents (occasionally) - Providing updates on their child’s participation in sessions
Key Responsibilities:
* Deliver engaging and structured sports sessions in primary schools, aligned with the National Curriculum
* Create a fun, active, and inclusive learning environment to support children’s development
* Work alongside experienced coaches to refine your coaching techniques
* Track student progress, provide feedback, and improve session delivery
* Build strong relationships with school staff to ensure high-quality PE provision
* Participate in professional training and qualifications to enhance your skills and career prospects
* Promote sportsmanship, teamwork, and a positive attitude towards physical activity
Reporting & Daily Interactions:
* You’ll report to your Team Leader for guidance and support
* Work closely with teachers, school staff, and fellow apprentices to ensure smooth running of sports sessions
* Receive mentorship and feedback from experienced team members
Why Join Premier Education?
* Permanent 30-hour contract with structured career development.
Gain industry-recognised coaching qualifications while working.
Ongoing training and CPD support to help you progress.
Clear pathways to career growth within sports coaching or teaching.
Competitive pay, plus company benefits
* If you’re passionate about sports and eager to inspire the next generation, apply today and begin your journey with Premier Education
Where you’ll work
Access Business Centre
Willoughby Road
Bracknell
RG12 8FB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
THE EDUCATIONWISE ACADEMY LTD
Your training course
Sports coach (level 4)
Equal to higher national certificate (HNC)
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
* Sports Coach Level 4 Apprenticeship Standard
* The training will consist of online learning
More training information
* Trainer provider: Educationwise
* More about the course structure can be found on their website
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
* English (grade A*-C/4-9)
* Maths (grade A*-C/4-9)
GCSE in:
* Level 2 Sports Coaching (grade Any)
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
* Organisation skills
* Customer care skills
* Problem solving skills
* Presentation skills
* Logical
* Team working
* Creative
* Initiative
* Non judgemental
* Patience
* Physical fitness
Other requirements
ALL APPLICANTS MUST BE 18+ due to Ofsted regulations Ability to pass an enhanced DBS check (Premier Education will support this process). A passion for sports coaching and working with children in an educational setting. Level 2 Sports Coaching qualification (or working towards it). Full UK driving license and access to a vehicle (preferred due to travel between schools). Previous experience in coaching, volunteering, or assisting in sports activities.