Sports Coach apprentice

Summary

Are you passionate about Sports Coaching or looking to advance your career? Do you have experience in sports coaching or teaching groups of children aged 4-11? Are you interested in career progression opportunities, including management roles? If yes, Premier Education might have the perfect role for you!

Annual wage: £11,700 a year
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Training course: Sports coach (level 4)
Hours: 30 hours per week - split of 6 hours coursework/masterclasses and 24 hours of delivery in schools per week. Days and times to be confirmed.
30 hours a week
Possible start date: Saturday 20 December
Duration: 1 year 3 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

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Plan and deliver fun, progressive activities for children aged 4-11, focusing on participation development, and enjoyment.
Track and adapt sessions based on pupil development.
Provide additional help to children needing extra support.
Be an energetic and enthusiastic ambassador for Premier Education.
Take full responsibility for the safety and engagement of all children in your care, keeping them focused and on task throughout sessions.
Ensure appropriate behaviour, focus, and engagement from all children while delivering activities.
Adapt your approach to different stakeholders including children, parents, and school staff.
Follow all company policies, including health and safety and safeguarding procedures.
Be punctual and maintain professionalism in all aspects of your role.
Uphold Premier Education’s values in all your actions.

Where you’ll work

Beardsley Drive

Chelmsford

CM1 6ZQ

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

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

The apprentice will work in a variety of schools each week, so you will need to be prepared to travel.

More training information

Training provider: Educationwise - Building strong workforces and creating pathways for better careers.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

Other in:

children aged 4-11 (grade Paid or Voluntary Experience)
Sports Coaching (grade Level 2/3)

Desirable qualifications

Other in:

Child Protection certificates (grade willingness to obtain them.)
Disclosure and Barring Service (grade willingness to obtain one.)

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
Team working
Patience
Physical fitness

Other requirements

We are recruiting sports coaching apprentices throughout 2025 New Balance Teamwear: Receive professional gear to maintain a smart image. Exclusive Equipment: Own set of tools to deliver top-quality sessions. Professional Development: Funding for skill enhancement and new qualifications through our unique in-house training. Ongoing CPD: Regular internal training to maximize your potential. Career Growth: Opportunities for management roles for the right candidate. Flexible Hours: Choose part-time or full-time; diversify your role with non-coaching tasks. Bonus Scheme: Performance-based incentives. Free Childcare: Access to holiday camps and extracurricular clubs. Company Events: Engage in team building and networking events. Monthly Awards: Recognition for high-performing staff. Paid Holidays: 4 weeks of annual leave ESSENTIAL: At least one Level 2 sports qualification. Experience in delivering sports or activity sessions or teaching groups of children aged 4-11- Paid or Voluntary. Full driving license and access to a car. Confident and strong personality with a passion for making a positive impact. Strong communication and teamwork skills. DESIRABLE: Current Enhanced DBS Certificate or willingness to obtain one. Paediatric First Aid and Child Protection certificates or willingness to obtain them. IT skills for play and club administration. Ability to work independently

About this company

As the UK’s largest provider of school physical activity and childcare services, Premier Education works with over 2,500 schools nationwide. We’re home to over 1,000 Activity Professionals, offering flexible roles, competitive pay, and the chance to make a positive impact on children’s lives through physical education and sport. Our coaches love the flexibility, fair working hours, and the satisfaction of seeing children grow. Join us in our mission to Educate & Activate the World through one of the most rewarding careers out there! Premier Education has access to some of the best training programmes and apprenticeships in the country through the Educationwise Academy. Our career pathways provide the opportunity to join us as a trainee and work your way right to the top as a franchisee. We have many opportunities available for traineeships and apprenticeships and we’d love you to be part of the team!

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After this apprenticeship

Upon completing the apprenticeship, you will become a fully certified sports coach with opportunities for further development.

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