Apprentice Sports Coach

Summary

The successful candidate will plan, prepare, and deliver engaging, fun, and progressive activities to children aged 4 – 11 years old that focus on participation, development, and enjoyment. Monitor and track pupil progress, review and adapt your programme of sessions accordingly. Take on a pastoral role with children who need additional help and support.

Annual wage

£9,984 a year

Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)

£6.40 to £9.50 depending on the qualification and experience

Training course

Community sport and health officer (level 3)

Hours

Monday to Friday from/between; 7:30am - 5:30pm. No evening work (but at least finishing After-school deliveries). No weekend work.

30 hours a week

Possible start date

Saturday 2 November

Duration

1 Year 4 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

Plan, prepare, and deliver engaging, fun, and progressive activities to children aged 4 – 11 years old that focus on participation, development, and enjoyment
Monitor and track pupil progress, review and adapt your programme of sessions accordingly
Take on a pastoral role with children who need additional help and support

Where you’ll work

2 Fiddlers Folly Fordham Heath

Colchester

UK

CO3 9UE

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

Community sport and health officer (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents

Successful application of tactics and strategies to empower people from inactive and hard to reach populations to take up an active lifestyle

Successful application of a range of approaches that bring about changes in attitudes and behaviours within target communities

Supporting people within target communities to become involved in the preparation, planning and delivery of sport and active lifestyles

Using local insight and customer-orientated marketing skills to attract high priority groups into existing leisure, parks and sport infrastructure

Negotiation, lobbying and brokerage skills with local partners across public health, community development and anti social behaviour

Demonstrate clear and effective communication techniques in order to give/receive information accurately and in a timely and positive manner

Problem solving and effective decision making with regards the design and implementation of sport and physical activity programmes

Writing successful funding bids to enable new, different or more opportunities to take place for sport and physical activity

Managing disruptive behaviour of clients and customers before, during and after activities

Managing and adapting personal behaviours to ensure provision is inclusive, customer-focused and accessible

Building partnerships and developing meaningful relationships with local partners and stakeholders in sport and physical activity

Your training plan

Community Sport and Health Officer (Level 3) Apprenticeship Standard
Required Entry Level qualifications include P.E./Sport subjects at Level 2, possibly Level 3. However, due to funding restrictions, Level 3 must not overqualify you for the learning and course study
eligibility for training will be checked by the training provider.
Training will be done online 1-2 days a week
Functional skills in English and maths for those without GCSE Grade 4/C (or equivalent) if required

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

Physical Education (grade 1)

Desirable qualifications

BTEC or equivalent in:

Sport (grade A)

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
Presentation skills
Team working
Creative
Physical fitness

Other requirements

The vacancy will involve multiple school (1-3) assignments on a daily basis. The importance of nearby residence location and having a car and a driver's license is essential.

About this company

Are you an experienced sports coach looking to further your career? Does the prospect of growing into a management role interest you? If you have answered yes to one or both questions, we might have the job for you! Established in 1999 , Premier Education is the UK’s No.1 provider of sport and physical activity to primary schools. We are experiencing a period of substantial growth resulting in the need to recruit a Primary School Sports Coach. Check out this short video about Premier - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx7mvX2dI7o Our vision is to get More Children, More Active, More Often Last year we impacted the lives of over 300,000 children. That was an incredible achievement during a year where we spent much of it in Lockdown. However this year we want to go bigger and better than ever before. We have set ourselves the outrageous target of impacting over 800,000 children this year. We are looking for enthusiastic, adventurous , creative and open minded individuals to join us on our journey to get MORE CHILDREN, MORE ACTIVE, MORE OFTEN We enforce best in class standards of deployment and as an accredited training provider, we skill our workforce to new levels. We know our team has the most up to date qualifications and meet these standards because we quality assure our network annually.

https://www.premier-education.com/coaching/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

Successful Apprenticeships have many progression routes in the company:

To be our Activity Professional
To be part of our Assistant Team Leaders
To be our Senior Activity Professional
To be on Extra Curricular, Curricular, Wrap Around Team Leaders
To be part of the Management Leadership Team

Successful completers will be able to move into senior roles within the Sector - leading teams of people or specialising with certain populations, particular sports or programmes. On successful completion of this apprenticeship, the Community Sport and Health Officer will be eligible to become an Affiliate Member of the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA).

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

PREMIER SPORTSCOACH SOLUTIONS LTD

Joshua Carney

hr@pscs.premier-education.com

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000279815.

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Closes in 29 days (Friday 1 November at 11:59pm)

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