BasketBall Coach apprenticeship

Summary

Apprentice Basketball Coach, you will develop young athletes within both an alternative education setting and a newly established community basketball club. The position provides an opportunity to gain hands-on coaching experience while supporting students who face challenges in traditional schools. The role is grounded in a Christian ethos.

Annual wage: £9,984 to £17,846.40 a year
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Training course: Sports coach (level 4)
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:30am to 2:00pm, plus one evening and one Saturday for 3hrs.
30 hours a week
Possible start date: Friday 15 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

Coaching and Development:

Assist in planning and conducting basketball training sessions and practices.
Support individual player development, focusing on skills, fitness, and understanding of the game.
Help foster a team atmosphere, promoting collaboration, discipline, and sportsmanship.
Mentoring and Role Modeling:
Serve as a positive role model, demonstrating Christian values such as respect, integrity, and perseverance.
Build supportive relationships with students, helping them grow in both sports and personal development.
Provide guidance to students who may face behavioral, social, or academic challenges, creating an inclusive and encouraging environment.
Administrative Support:
Assist with organizing practices, matches, and events for the community basketball club.
Help maintain equipment, track attendance, and manage other logistical tasks.
Community Engagement:
Actively support the development of the new community basketball club, helping to recruit new members and promote the program within local communities.
Encourage participation in community service and outreach projects that align with the Christian mission of the club and school.

Where you’ll work

Evershed Sports Ground,

Wyke Gardens

Ealing

W7 2BB

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

SCL EDUCATION & TRAINING 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.