PE & School Sports Coach Apprentice - Launceston
PLYMOUTH ARGYLE FOOTBALL IN THE COMMUNITY TRUST
Launceston (PL15 9JR)
Closes on Wednesday 28 May 2025
Posted on 21 March 2025
Contents
Summary
The Community School Sports Coach will work to support the health and wellbeing of their local community through the medium of sport. The successful candidate will have involvement across a range of programmes, inclusive of holiday camps, after school clubs and Physical Education sessions in schools among others.
- 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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A typical working week will vary according to business needs, to include some evening and weekend work as necessary. Typical working hours are envisaged to be between 10.00am - 4.30pm, Monday to Friday.
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 21 July 2025
- Duration
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1 year 4 months
- Positions available
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2
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
Argyle Community Trust are seeking an enthusiastic and charismatic individual to support their community coaching remit. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work within a professional sports club context, whilst using their own passion for sport to engage and inspire others. The role will involve supporting experienced coaches in working across a range of age ranges, predominately focussing upon those of Primary and Secondary School age ranges.
The job holder is required to:
- Learn about session planning, organisation and football/multi-sport development
- Complete session planning and reviews
- Assist with partner projects across all remits of the Trust
- Assist Argyle Community Trust and partners with a range of events
- Assist Lead Coaches at coaching sessions
- Take registers and sign people in and out of sessions
- Assist with coaching at schools in curriculum time
- Assist with after school clubs, junior kickers and multi-sport groups
- Assist with administration and monitoring & evaluation of projects
- Complete session preparation including equipment organisation and storage
- Assist at community events and tournaments including pre-event organisation
Where you’ll work
Launceston Community College
Hurdon Road
Launceston
PL15 9JR
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
Plymouth Argyle Football In The Community Trust - Training schedule has yet to be agreed. Details will be made available at a later date.
- Community activator coach Level 2 qualification
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- English (grade 4-9 (A*-C))
- Math (grade 4-9(A*-C))
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
Argyle Community Trust can offer a unique pathway through their apprentice programme, having structured progression opportunities from entry level coach, right through to degree and non-degree level professional qualifications, such as that of the Level 5 Primary School Physical Education Specialism and Level 6 Primary School Physical Education Subject Leadership.
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 VAC1000311112.
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Closes on Wednesday 28 May 2025
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