School Sports Coach Apprentice

WORTHING HIGH SCHOOL

WORTHING, BN14 7AR

Closes in 6 days (Wednesday 25 September at 11:59pm)

Posted on 11 September 2024


Summary

The primary role of the School Sports Coach is to provide general support to the staff and pupils within PE, including preparation and maintenance of resources and equipment under the instruction of senior staff. Additionally there will be occasions, when PE / PA staff are absent, that you will cover a lesson(s).

Annual wage
£20,441 a year

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Salary will be in line with recommended Apprentice and national pay scales. Grade 2-3 £20,441 – £21,189 (£17,610 to £18,255 pro rata)

Training course
Sports coach (level 4)
Hours
Core hours are 37 hours per week 8.30am - 4.30pm Monday - Thursday and 8.30am - 4.00pm Friday. Requiring flexibility to work some evenings on request.

37 hours a week

Possible start date

Tuesday 1 October

Duration

1 Year 8 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

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:

  • To prepare PE equipment / resources / materials as required by staff within strict time scales
  • To create and maintain a purposeful, orderly and productive working environment for the teacher
  • To monitor stock and supplies, cataloguing as required
  • To ensure the maintenance of PE equipment, checking for quality and safety, undertaking repairs / modifications within your own capabilities and reporting other damages as appropriate
  • To support pupils in accessing learning activities as directed by the teacher
  • To provide cover for PE / PA staff when absent
  • To ensure pupils adhere to health and safety regulations and instructions
  • To assist with the supervision of pupils out of lesson times, for example: during extracurricular activities and clubs
  • To implement structured learning activities / teaching programmes in line with the National Curriculum, under the direction of the teacher
  • To demonstrate, and assist others in the safe and effective use of PE equipment / materials
  • To provide feedback to pupils in relation to progress and achievement
  • To administer routine tests, operate as scribe and invigilate exams and undertake routine marking of pupils' work
  • To maintain records as requested
  • To provide clerical and administration support to the teacher, such as typing, printing, photocopying and display work. To participate in meetings as required

Where you’ll work

SOUTH FARM ROAD

WORTHING

BN14 7AR

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

ASPIRE TRAINING SOLUTIONS (UK) LIMITED

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

    The training provider (Aspire Training Solutions) offer 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 Apprenticeship Standard
    • Sector specific CPD, such as:
    • Sports coaching - practical skills
    • Supporting the PE curriculum
    • Behaviour Management
    • Practical PE Curriculum
    • Gymnastics
    • Dance
    • Safeguarding / Prevent
    • Mental Health and Wellbeing

    Requirements

    Essential qualifications

    GCSE or equivalent in:

    • Maths & English (grade C/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
    • Team working
    • Creative
    • Initiative
    • Non judgemental
    • Patience
    • Physical fitness

    Other requirements

    Candidates must be confident and happy to travel to and from the school location 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 company

    The educational aims of Worthing High School are based on the strong fundamental principle that the education for each student is of equal value. Our shared vision is to challenge children at every opportunity; to be curious, independent, resilient, kind and most importantly, academically inspired. Our school seeks to achieve these aims through its provision for the academic, personal and social development of all our students. The school is on a fantastic journey, growing year on year. Our environment and staff are dedicated to achieving the very best outcomes.

    https://www.worthinghigh.net/ (opens in new tab)

    After this apprenticeship

    We will support you in your personal development by providing you with the underpinning knowledge, skills and experience for the following:

    • Careers within the Sport Coaching industry
    • Careers within the Education sector including Behaviour & Learning Mentors, Teaching Assistants and Primary Teaching
    • Potential further employment with the employer
    • Opportunity for further education

    Candidates successfully achieving this apprenticeship will be eligible to apply for membership with the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA) as a Practitioner.

    Ask a question

    The contact for this apprenticeship is:

    ASPIRE TRAINING SOLUTIONS (UK) LIMITED

    Gemma Clark-Davies

    gclark-davies@worthinghigh.net

    01903 237864

    The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000276213.

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    Closes in 6 days (Wednesday 25 September at 11:59pm)

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