Gymnastics Coach Apprentice

Summary

The role will primarily involve assisting in the coaching of gymnasts across all gymnastics disciplines available at the club. These are Women’s Artistic, General Gymnastics (Girls and Boys) 4 Piece and 2 Piece, Team Gym, Pre-School and Recreational Cheerleading.

Annual wage: £9,984 a year
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Training course: Community activator coach (level 2)
Hours: hours may vary, but working between 3pm and 8.30pm during the week and on a Sunday. Saturdays would be 9am-4pm. Exact shifts TBC.
30 hours a week
Possible start date: Tuesday 18 February
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

Assisting in the coaching of gymnasts and cheerleaders
Ensuring the gym and apparatus are clean and in a safe working condition
Taking class registers and administration for competitions, events, uniform orders, memberships, etc.. There will also be administrative tasks to help with the running of the sessions and the club in general. This will involve working with other coaches and the gym management team.
Contributing to session planning and scheduling
Liaison with 3rd party contractors and suppliers
In addition, the role requires good communications skills with gymnasts, coaches, managers and parent carers.

Where you’ll work

UNIT D1

DELAVAL TRADING ESTATE

SEATON DELAVAL

WHITLEY BAY

NE25 0QT

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

BRIDGWATER AND TAUNTON COLLEGE

Your training course

Community activator coach (level 2)

Equal to GCSE

Course contents

Planning and adapting sessions and activities that respond to customer feedback and encourage customers to develop a lifelong activity habit.
Coaching or leading pre-planned sport or physical activity sessions that are attractive to the target audience(s) and develop motivational relationships with customers.
Promoting a physical activity offer, (including but not exclusively) organised play and sport in the community which supports individuals on their behaviour change journey.
Working collaboratively with sports clubs and other community assets – including volunteers, public services, youth workers, the police and community champions.
Supporting customers to co-produce rewarding volunteering opportunities.
Supporting families to participate together in sport and physical activity.
Working effectively with customer insight to overcome individual, community and societal barriers to participation in physical activity and sport.
Contributing to the employer’s design of activities and services and practising the employer’s organisation’s values, policies and procedures.
Contributing to teams that deliver community events and festivals.
Supporting organisations to evaluate, develop and promote sessions and other opportunities such as outdoor group exercise and informal social play.
Maintaining personal safety and wellbeing, as well as that of customers.
Managing disruptive behaviours from individuals within the group setting.
Encouraging customers to be regularly active – both formally and informally – within sports clubs or leisure facilities including open-space.
Effectively using social media and technology, appropriately, to deliver targeted messages to identified customer groups for example children, teenagers, adults and older adults.
Effectively monitor and evaluate activities, sessions and projects using technology platforms to maintain accurate records and produce timely reports.

Your training plan

Apprenticeship is delivered 100% in the workplace, to include Assessor visits.
Online tutorials with Assessor.
L2 Community activator coach Apprenticeship Standard

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

GCSE's inc English & maths (grade 9 to 2 (A* to E))

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
Attention to detail
Customer care skills
Analytical skills
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Patience
Physical fitness
Honest & Trustworthy

Other requirements

The role involves a lot of working during evenings and weekends, is this something that you are prepared for? Also, consider the location of the club – will your commute to the club take a reasonable time and be convenient at the times you will be required to work?

About this company

Tyneside Gymnastics club has been established over 14 years and has a successful track record in providing gymnastics training and competition. Tyneside is a small club, usually with 100 to 200 gymnasts participating at any one time. Tyneside is a Not-For-profit CASC organisation. Any profit made is fed back into the club to support maintenance of the facilities, training and equipment purchases.

http://www.tynesidegymnasticsclub.co.uk (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

Tyneside are hopeful that the successful candidate will progress through the agreed British Gymnastics qualifications and after completion of the apprenticeship, become a gymnastics coach with the club.
Tyneside are looking to expand the coaching team in order to support more gymnasts across a wider range of disciplines and are committed to developing and training coaches to enable this to happen.

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