School Sports Coach Apprentice

Summary

This is a fantastic opportunity for enthusiastic and energetic individuals looking to enter or excel in a career within sports coaching and/or teaching. You will collaborate with teachers to develop pupils’ mastery of psychomotor skills by applying a whole child approach in your coaching.

Wage

£13,348.40 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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The above salary is for full time, this role is TERM TIME ONLY working 42 weeks with an annual salary of £12,223.

Training course

Sports coach (level 4)

Hours

Monday - Friday, hours to be confirmed.

33 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Wednesday 6 August 2025

Duration

2 years

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

As a School Sport Coach Apprentice, you will need to understand how to plan and deliver coaching sessions. You will also need to inspire, motivate and enthuse your students. Below are the main roles you will be expected to carry out during your apprenticeship.

Support the provision of high-quality sports coaching during and after school
Involve all children in physical education and adapting lessons to children with different abilities
Give feedback to students on performance and help them to improve techniques and understanding
Improve links with other local schools and partners to help with competitive sport and physical activity provision
Utilise and collaborate with industry-wide support networks and internal team members to ensure the most effective coaching services are delivered to participants.
Increase physical activity levels within the school (both pupils and staff)
Increase physical activity during break and lunchtimes
Assist with the improvement of staff development within the area of PE and school sport
Support the PE Coordinator regarding intra and inter school events
Assist the school in its day to day duties (support classroom activities and the school environment)
Plan fun, engaging coaching activities, sessions and programmes in a safe environment
Managing coursework set the Apprenticeship
Develop and update own coaching philosophy and strategies through professional practice, continuous development and self-review.
Develop and implement evidence-based, progressive coaching systems that comply with all relevant and current legislation, statutory guidance, sector standards and codes.
Use up-to-date knowledge of wider issues affecting the coaching environment to proactively influence best practice across the coaching team.
Promote holistic wellbeing within coaching practice to control/contain stressors experienced by participants in the coaching environment.
Maintain up-to-date knowledge of education standards, trends, frameworks, paradigms and contemporary influences.
Deliver appropriate coaching pedagogies and processes that align to national physical education curriculum and considers the school context, category, culture, strategies and regulatory constraints.

Where you’ll work

Hazel Street
Leicester
LE2 7JN

Training

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

College or training organisation

LOUGHBOROUGH COLLEGE

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

Delivery Method

You will need to be able to attend a training course at Loughborough College starting on Monday 4th August 2025 for 3 weeks Monday to Friday. (Please ensure you are able to travel before applying)
Additional training to take place at Loughborough College every other Monday to develop knowledge, skills, and behaviours in accordance to this apprenticeship
Online portfolio to update with learning and development completed onsite
Diarised visits from dedicated Trainer/Assessor
Attendance to Loughborough College for Functional Skills (if required)

End-Point Assessment (EPA):

Work based project and presentation with questioning
Practical observation with questioning
Professional discussion underpinned by a portfolio

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English and Maths (grade C/4 or above)

BTEC in:

PE or Sport related qualification (grade Pass/ Achieved)

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
Organisation skills
Team working
Initiative

Other requirements

You will be employed to work with children full time in a school as a member of staff, not a student. Any offer of Apprenticeship will be subject to a full DBS and Satisfactory References. Loughborough College reserves the right to withdraw this vacancy before the end date, following consultation with the employer.

About this company

Hazel is a 2-form entry inner-city primary school. We have 2 classes in every year group from Reception to Year 6. We are a very diverse and inclusive school, with over 36 different languages being spoken by children and families in our school community. Our parents and families are supportive of the school and we have positive and committed governors who are keen to see Hazel children continue to succeed. We were graded as Good by Ofsted in October 2021 and we continue to offer a broad and balanced curriculum to all our children.

https://www.hazel.leicester.sch.uk/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

The job is term time plus 3 weeks and holidays are taken during the school holidays.

After this apprenticeship

Higher Education
Employment at the school
Coaching in education
Community sports coaching
International sports coaching

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

LOUGHBOROUGH COLLEGE

Sophia Cleaver

apprenticeships@loucoll.ac.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000311766.

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Closes in 4 days (Friday 2 May 2025 at 11:59pm)

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