Sport Coach Apprentice

Summary

At Soccer Shooters we combine top-quality coaching with a relaxed and inclusive environment, enabling children of all backgrounds and abilities to sharpen their football skills while also learning life skills that will serve them well, no matter what they want to do in the future.

Annual wage

£7,987.20 a year

Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)

£6.40/hr initially, rising to £7/hr after a successful initial 3 months.

Training course

Sports coach (level 4)

Hours

(Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm) and 10-14hrs of coaching (Mon - Fri 3.15 - 7.15pm and Sat's 8.45am-12.45pm) There is flexibility here for the business and the apprentice (i.e. fundays are 8-4, 4 days a week, so on those weeks there may be increased hours)

24 hours a week

Possible start date

Thursday 7 November

Duration

1 Year 6 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

Providing Football coaching to children after school, weekday evenings, Saturday mornings, birthday parties, and fun days during the holidays
Providing administrative support (managing bookings, following up on booking enquiries, answering emails, telephone support, stock management etc.)
Providing marketing support (content creation, monitoring of marketing campaigns, etc.)
You must be well presented and wear your Soccer Shooters Branded uniform when on duty and representing Soccer Shooters
Ensure Social media presence is in line with Soccer Shooters Values of non-discrimination
Any other duties required to support Soccer Shooters

Where you’ll work

84 Gloucester Road

Bishopston

Bristol

BS7 8BN

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

WESTON COLLEGE OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION

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.