Level 4 Sports Coach Apprenticeship

Summary

The role of a Level 4 Sports Coach Apprentice is a very important one in the life of the school. It is expected that the Level 4 Sports Coach Apprentice will be approachable and friendly, but firm in their dealings with children and working always in support of the staff.

Wage

£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course

Sports coach (level 4)

Hours

8.00am - 6.00pm (40 hours per week including 8 hours study per week), Five days a week during term time, including inset days.

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 25 August 2025

Duration

1 year 9 months

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you’ll do at work

Believe in Amesbury and be committed to its ethos, culture, and values
Take initiative, be creative, and work independently without being told what to do.
A passion for sport and working with children.
Take initiative, be creative, and work independently without being told what to do.
Strong skills and knowledge in a range of sports (coaching qualifications are an advantage but not essential).
Reliable, enthusiastic, and motivated with a strong work ethic.
Ability to work as part of a team and independently.
Support the Teachers in improving the quality of teaching and learning
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
A willingness to learn and take on new challenges.
Adhere to an agreed timetable

Where you’ll work

AMESBURY SCHOOL
HAZEL GROVE
HINDHEAD
SURREY
GU26 6BL

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

ACCESS FURTHER EDUCATION 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.
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

Assist in planning and delivering sports lessons and training sessions across a variety of disciplines (e.g., rugby, hockey, cricket, netball, athletics).

Provide coaching for school sports teams, including preparing for and attending fixtures and tournaments.
Offer tailored support to students of varying abilities, fostering skill development and enthusiasm.

Requirements

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
Administrative skills
Logical
Team working
Patience
Physical fitness

Other requirements

Amesbury is dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment and undergo enhanced DBS checks.

About this company

Amesbury is an independent co-educational day preparatory school catering for pupils between the ages of 9 months - 13+. The main catchment area includes Godalming, Haslemere, Midhurst, Petersfield and Farnham. The area is very well catered for in educational terms, with strong infant and primary school provision. In spite of intense competition. Amesbury has continued to be one of the strongest preparatory schools in the area and features in the Good Schools Guide. The School was inspected by ISI in September 2017 and judged to be excellent in all categories and subcategories. Needless to say, the school was also found to be fully compliant. Pupils leave to join a wide range of the best day and boarding senior schools in the UK including Brighton College, Bedales, Bradfield, Bryanston, Canford, Charterhouse, Cranleigh, Frensham Heights, Guildford High School, Harrow, Lord Wandsworth College, Marlborough College, The Portsmouth Grammar School, Prior’s Field, RGS Guildford, Rugby, Seaford College, St Catherine’s, Tormead, Wellington College and Winchester College.

After this apprenticeship

After completing a Level 4 Sports Coach Apprenticeship, you can expect a variety of career progression opportunities, including:

Career Paths:

Senior Sports Coach – Specialising in high-performance coaching for athletes or teams.
Head Coach/Lead Coach – Managing coaching staff and designing training programs.
Performance Analyst – Using data to improve athletic performance.
Sports Development Officer – Promoting sports participation and grassroots programs.
Strength & Conditioning Coach – Specialising in fitness and athletic performance.
Self-Employment – Starting your own coaching business or working freelance.

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

ACCESS FURTHER EDUCATION LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000310946.

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Closes on Wednesday 30 July 2025

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