PE & School Sport Apprentice - Camborne
PLYMOUTH ARGYLE FOOTBALL IN THE COMMUNITY TRUST
Redruth (TR15 3QS)
Closes on Wednesday 28 May 2025
Posted on 21 March 2025
Contents
Summary
We are are keen to seek an enthusiastic and passionate individual who is striving to further their career in the Physical Education and wider community sports sector. The successful candidate will learn planning, leading and coaching physical activities for people of all ages in the community.
- Wage
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£11,778 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Community activator coach (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday working hours will generally be between the hours of 8:30am to 5pm, with some weekend work and flexibility required from time to time.
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 21 July 2025
- Duration
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1 year 2 months
- Positions available
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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
The role will be varied, and duties will include:
- Assisting in the creation of a fun, positive, safe and inclusive learning environments
- Supporting small groups and individuals in the teaching environment, for instance those with learning needs, the least active and the more able pupils
- Promoting key health messages and acting as a community 'activator' to engage young people in developing lifelong health and well-being initiatives
- Setting up activities, clearing away resources, looking after all sports equipment (ensuring it is fit for use, in the right place and in good order), maintaining wall displays etc. as guided by teaching staff
- Developing and assisting with the provision of lunchtime and after school sports clubs
- Involved in co-ordinating off site sporting events, willing to accompany students on educational visits, outings and sporting / PE events as supervised by the teacher or senior person responsible
- Involved in administration tasks including letter writing, bookings, transport arrangements, marketing, social media etc.
- Developing positive relationships and acting as a role model to others at all times, as well as acting as an ambassador for the school and employer
- To deliver on holiday schemes
- Additional duties and administrative tasks may be required on occasions as consummate with the role
Where you’ll work
Station Road
Pool
Redruth
TR15 3QS
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
PLYMOUTH ARGYLE FOOTBALL IN THE COMMUNITY TRUST
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
Apprentices will be supported in working towards the following qualifications as part of their programme of study:
- Level 2 Community Activator Coach
- Level 3 Award in Emergency Paediatric First Aid
- Additional bespoke training that meets the standard criteria and is suitable to the employer and the requirements for the role
- Apprentice's will undertake their training face to face and one day every month at Lanivet Community Centre in Lanivet, Bodmin, Cornwall
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
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
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
About this company
We are proud to be the official charity for Plymouth Argyle Football Club. Argyle Community Trust uses the prestige of football and the reach of the club to inspire, engage and help people of all ages, achieve their full potential. Argyle Community Trust has a clear vision, along with our national partners, to be an active, inspirational and inclusive community hub for the South West region. We aim to have a positive impact on a range of groups within society and to provide the local community with the opportunity to explore their full potential, improve their life chances and aspirations through the power of football and Plymouth Argyle FC. We are hugely proud to say we have changed lives and inspired people over the past 20 years and envisage this to continue for many years to come. We offer a large range of activities and programmes from football to nationally recognised educational qualifications, from health to social action and disability. To ensure we remain focused and true to our aims we have a strategy showcasing what we do and how we we intend to continue and build upon our work. Our Community Strategy builds on Argyle Community Trust’s desire to make a change to people’s lives using the power of Plymouth Argyle Football Club. The populations that we serve face barriers in relation to health, well-being, education, employment, levels of physical activity, high deprivation in some areas and low attainment levels. Through the work undertaken as part of our last strategy, through research and consultation there is clear evidence to indicate our work is needed within our community. National, regional and local plans reflect the work that we undertake with the aim of breaking down the barriers stated above.
After this apprenticeship
The employer is very keen to progress all apprentice staff through the bespoke training opportunities they offer and can host superb professional development opportunities that will vastly enrich any individuals CV towards a sport or education-based career.
It is hoped that the successful candidate will become an invaluable member of the team who can take on more responsibility and administrative duties in the future. This is a superb opportunity to gain experience within both school and sport specific settings and can therefore act as the perfect foundation for progressing into a range of exciting careers both within, and externally to the network.
Specific progression routes envisaged for the successful candidate include:
- Level 4 Sports Coach Apprenticeship Standard
- Level 5 Certificate in Primary School Physical Education Specialism
- Level 6 Award in Primary School Physical Education Subject Leadership (QTS Required)
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
PLYMOUTH ARGYLE FOOTBALL IN THE COMMUNITY TRUST
Thaila Morse
thaila.morse@pafc.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000311103.
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Closes on Wednesday 28 May 2025
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