Education & Community Sports Coach Apprentice

Summary

We are looking for an inspirational apprentice coach to join our amazing charity which makes a positive impact to the lives of children and young people. The role involves using the power of sport and physical activity to positively engage young people in both schools and communities.

Annual wage: £22,010 a year
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Training course: Sports coach (level 4)
Hours: Monday - Friday, shifts to be confirmed. Start and finish times between 7.30am - 7pm and occasional weekends
37 hours a week
Possible start date: Wednesday 4 December
Duration: 1 year 6 months
Positions available: 2

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

The Education and Community Sports Coach Apprentice will:

Deliver sessions in schools and communities in line with the national curriculum
Help to use sport and skill development as a tool for social change including employability skills developed through engaging in Sport and Physical Activity
Plan engaging and innovative activities using either sport, physical activity or skill development
Provide children and young people with great experiences using the power of sport
Demonstrate the effectiveness of sport and skill development
Maintain good relationships with key stakeholders - children, parents, business. managers, schoolteachers, headteachers, PE leads and community venues
Use pupil voice and insight to design interventions that meet the needs of young people
Use ICT to monitor and evaluate programmes to measure impact and demonstrate outcomes
Understand the importance of physical activity and a healthy lifestyle
Work with National Governing bodies of sport (NGBs) and other relevant sport development agencies
Understand the principals of safeguarding, child protection and working with vulnerable adults
Be first aid trained.

The successful candidate will have experience in:

Leading sessions of sport and physical activity sessions within school, alternative provision and community/youth settings
Maintaining relationships with key contacts in schools and community organisations
Using various approaches to change attitudes to sport and physical activity in local communities
Developing positive relationships and outcomes for young people that demonstrate challenging behaviour, at risk of becoming or are NEET or are within Alternative Provision
Mentoring and supporting young people to achieve positive outcomes through PE, Sport and Physical Activity
Supporting people to become involved in the preparation, planning and delivery of sport and exercise
Communicating clearly with a range of different groups in a range of different ways
Adapting to different situations and use own initiative to problem solve
Building partnerships with local communities, businesses, and other relevant stakeholders
Ensuring that provision is inclusive, customer focused and accessible

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

Excellent work ethic and attention to detail
Superb time management
Adaptability
A positive attitude to work and be a role model within communities
A willingness to work as a team but also individually
An appetite to learn and develop personally and professionally
All the Active Fusion values in the way that they work and live
Be able to travel independently to various location across South Yorkshire

Where you’ll work

Doncaster College

The Hub

Chappell Drive

Doncaster

DN1 2RF

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

DN COLLEGES GROUP

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

Training will be at Doncaster College where you will access a wide range of facilities on offer.  

Day release. 

You will undertake the Level 4 Sports Coach standard.

Sports coach/Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.

You will undertake Functional Skills for English and/or maths if needed.

You will undertake both on and off-the-job training by a team of industry qualified professionals to give you the best skills, knowledge and experience that will help you become a star of the future!

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English and Maths (grade 4)
Community/Higher sports leaders' awards qual (grade Pass)
multi skills level 2 coaching qualifications (grade Level 2)
National Governing Body of Sport (grade Level 2)

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
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Presentation skills
Team working
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience
Physical fitness

Other requirements

You must be able drive travelling to and from work and college.

About this company

Active Fusion is an award-winning charity whose mission is to help every child develop a love for being active by unlocking potential and creating positive habits for life. We are a close team who are passionate, dedicated, and motivated; our positive culture is the foundation to our success. Why work for us? You will be joining an award-winning charity, led by double World Age Duathlon Champion, Lindsy James. Active Fusion has a strong value-driven work culture which makes it a great place to work for, and work with. There’s lots of potential for development and progression at Active Fusion and within the wider charity sector. We offer superb benefits, including a generous pension contribution, flexible working, 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays), 40 hours dedicated professional development annually and access to our trained Mental Health First Aiders. We also have gym access, child-care during school holidays (via our holiday camps), cycle to work scheme and other charity discounts. As a team, together, we make a difference to over 30,000 children and young people annually. The team is small, yet growing; extremely passionate, joyful and always nurturing. We value the diversity and knowledge we offer as team in bringing together many different skills and experiences. We do what we do with integrity and humour and by creating a supportive environment from within our homes to our headquarter offices at The Hub in the City of Doncaster. We provide opportunities to engage in sport and physical activity with young people at risk of becoming NEET, in schools, Alternative Provision or community settings as well as for young people aged 3-11 in nursery, primary school or community settings. Vision & Mission Active Fusion have a vision for change, a vision inspired by a passionate team working with our partners to ensure that all children and young people can be the best they can be. Active Fusion are a charity who put young people at the heart of everything we do because we believe every child should be given the best start in life. We deliver our charitable objectives through good governance, a highly skilled team and a passion to make a difference. Our Mission is to help every child to develop a love for being active by creating positive habits that last a lifetime. Our Values are fundamental to us as a team and as a charity.

https://www.activefusion.org.uk/ (opens in new tab)

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

Successful completion of the apprenticeship could lead to full-time employment for the right candidate.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

DN COLLEGES GROUP

Asa Buckley

asa.buckley@don.ac.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000283936.

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