Summary
If you are passionate about football then this is the position for you. Working within in the Community Team at Stevenage Football Foundation. This offers a varied position that gives the valuable opportunities of gaining experience through working with young people, colleagues and key community partners in sport.
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Training course
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Sports coach (level 4)
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Hours
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Monday - Friday, shifts to be confirmed.
30 hours a week
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Possible start date
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Sunday 10 November
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
Please note; that this is not a football coaching role.
The role involves:
• Assist with the delivery of all Foundation sessions, in a variety of settings, including Extra-Curricular Clubs, Premier League Primary Stars, Walking Football, Premier League Kicks, Junior Kickers, Active Tots, and Matchday Experiences
• Work with our Admin Team to ensure that all paperwork for sessions including registers, payments, session plans and registration forms are up to date and processed correctly
• Assisting with the development of new activity relating to your area of work to grow the Foundation’s reach within its community
• Work with the wider delivery team to ensure that Foundation equipment is well maintained and available for all sessions
• Establishing and maintaining good working relationships with other relevant agencies and individual
• Provide support to senior staff and assist with the planning, development and delivery of Foundation events
• Comply fully with all partnership policies and such relevant legislation as affects all programmes e.g. safeguarding, equal opportunities, health and safety, data protection
• Carry out such other duties as are within the scope and spirit of the job purpose, the title of the post, and level of responsibility and offer support to others when required
• Champion best practice linked to the Foundation’s policies and procedures, particularly Safeguarding, Equality & Diversity and Health & Safety to provide the best environment for participants.
• Attend relevant training and CPD events as and when required.
• To be an advocate for best practice and to promote the messages of the Stevenage FC Foundation, Stevenage Football Club, English Football League Trust, Premier League Communities and other partners
Where you’ll work
Stevenage FC Foundation
The Lamex Stadium
Broadhall Way
Stevenage
SG2 8RH
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
SPORTING FUTURES TRAINING (UK) 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
Level 2 Community Activator Coach Apprenticeship Standard, which includes:
- Safeguarding Level 1
- Prevent Duty
- Level 1/2 functional skills in maths and English (if required)
- End-Point Assessment (EPA)
In addition to the training and learning provided as part of the apprenticeship. Learners will also be supported to achieve the following industry specific qualifications:
•FA Play Maker Qualification
•FA Level 1 Coaching Certificate (provided by Hertfordshire FA with costs funded by SFCF)
•UEFA C Coaching Qualification (part funded by SFCF and subject to availability)
•Suitable & Relevant Safeguarding Qualification
•Suitable & Relevant Emergency First Aid Qualification
•Other NGB or Multi-Skills Qualifications (where applicable)
Delivery method and location of training to be confirmed.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- MATHS AND ENGLISH (grade GCSEs at grades A*-C/9-4 (or)
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
- Team working
- Initiative
About this company
Stevenage Football Club Foundation (Charity No: 1140006) is the official charity of Stevenage Football Club, working to create a community where all can live an active, healthy, and positive life.
The Foundation's work is built around two core principles – People & Potential, working on a number of projects with a variety of partners in order to deliver work that impacts those two principles.
Delivering 185 sessions per week across Stevenage and surrounding areas, the Foundation engages with nearly 16,000 people a year.
The core to our work and success is the committed, innovative, and passionate team of staff, who work tirelessly to create opportunities for people in our community to make positive choices to improve their lives and realise their potential.
If this sounds like you, this could be your opportunity to join a team of likeminded people, and make a real difference to people in our community.
https://stevenagefcfoundation.com/ (opens in new tab)
After this apprenticeship
- PE Teacher – following higher Education routes
- Level 5 Specialist Teaching Assistant
On successful completion of this apprenticeship the Community Activator Coach 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:
SPORTING FUTURES TRAINING (UK) LTD
Adam Baker
vacancies@esfapprenticeships.co.uk
01438 791046
The reference code for this apprenticeship is
VAC1000282515.
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Closes in 9 days (Monday 4 November)
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