Summary
We are looking for enthusiastic people with a passion for sport and physical activity. You will possess the competencies to inspire & motivate children and young people. Working alongside our Activity Professionals in local primary schools to support delivery of high-quality PE, sport, breakfast, lunchtime & after school clubs.
Annual wage
£9,984 to £17,846.40 a year
The pay rate is between £9,000-£11,500 depending on experience
Training course
Sports coach (level 4)
Hours
To be confirmed at interview stage.
30 hours a week
Possible start date
Friday 18 April
Duration
1 year 2 months
Positions available
1
Work
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
Our apprentices are an essential part of our team, and organisation as a whole, responsible for creating, planning and delivering sports sessions to children across a variety of settings and formats. With daily interaction and mentorship available from the director of the franchise, as well as other management personnel and other team members.
Key responsibilities will include:
* Coaching Sports Activities: Leading and facilitating sports sessions for students, teaching them the rules, techniques, and strategies of various sports.
* Promoting Physical Fitness: Encouraging students to stay active, understand the importance of physical health, and adopt healthy habits.
* Planning and Organising: Developing training plans and schedules for sports sessions, as well as organising competitions and events within the school or against other schools.
* Supporting Student Development: Offering guidance on teamwork, sportsmanship, and personal development, while helping students build confidence and achieve their individual goals.
* Ensuring Safety: Monitoring and maintaining a safe environment during sports activities, making sure that proper equipment is used and that students are aware of safety protocols.
* Fostering Inclusivity: Ensuring that all students, regardless of skill level or background, have an opportunity to participate and enjoy physical activity.
* Collaboration: Working alongside teachers, school staff, and parents to promote sports initiatives and enhance the overall well-being of students.
* Help with setting up and putting away of equipment
* Deliver/assist on our Ofsted registered holiday camp
Where you’ll work
St Marys Lane
Upminster
Essex
UK
RM14 3PA
Training
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
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
Throughout the apprenticeship, you will receive on-the-job training, mentorship from experienced coaches, and the chance to earn qualifications that are recognised within the industry. The role offers a unique chance to work closely with children and young people, fostering teamwork, discipline, and physical well-being.
More training information
* L4 Sports coach Apprenticeship Standard
Requirements
Essential qualifications
A Level in:
* Sports Coaching or equivalent (grade Level 3)
Desirable qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
* English (grade 4)
* Maths (grade 4)
Other in:
* working with children (grade Experience)
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
* Organisation skills
* Non judgemental
* Patience
* Physical fitness
Other requirements
The salary is dependent on qualifications and experience within a sports environment A driving licence is desirable, as you will be expected to travel to different school locations throughout the day.