Apprentice Sports Coach
SOCCER COACHING 2000 LTD
Wolverhampton (WV6 9NW)
Closes on Friday 18 July 2025
Posted on 17 April 2025
Contents
Summary
The Community Activator Coach Apprentice will be responsible for assisting the qualified coach/PE specialists in planning, preparation and delivery of high-quality PE and School Sport provision as well as community-based coaching activities.
- 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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Predominantly Mon – Fri
Flexibility for Saturday morning and evening work is required. Shifts TBC.
(13-month contract)
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 21 July 2025
- Duration
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1 year
- Positions available
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6
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
- Support Lead Coach delivering PE lessons – KS1 & KS2
- Support Lead Coach delivering School Sport lunch time & after school clubs – KS1 & KS2
- Support Lead Coach delivering Physical Activity sessions– KS1 & KS2
- Support Lead Coach delivering Weekly Community Football Coaching sessions.
- Support Lead Coach delivering school-based sports holiday camps.
- Support Lead Coach delivering Community sports holiday camps.
Where you’ll work
VW Active - Aldersley Leisure Village
Aldersley Road
Wolverhampton
WV6 9NW
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
SPORT STRUCTURES EDUCATION COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY
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
- Level 2 Community Activator Coach Standard
- Highfield Functional Skills Level 2 Maths and English (if necessary)
- Bespoke training programme that meets the standard criteria and is suitable to the employer and the requirements for the role.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
Other in:
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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
- Reliable
- Organised
- Adaptable
- Trustworthy
- Approachable
- Plan & evaluate sessions
- Effective & efficient time use
- Observe and analysis
- Create learning environment
- Create progressive environment
- Motivate participants
Other requirements
The role will entail coaching, planning and an element of paperwork.
About this company
Soccer Coaching 2000 Limited is a Wolverhampton based sports coaching company for children, established in 1999. Our well qualified coaches, for whom coaching is a career, are DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) checked, experienced in working with children and are full-time employed by our company. In order to guarantee reliability we also employ cover coaches. All coaching is overseen by our Director, Wayne Clark who has over 30 years’ experience in coaching children and developing coaches. During school terms coaches, working in pairs, deliver games lessons and P.E. during curriculum time plus after school, lunchtime and breakfast clubs to schools in Wolverhampton. In school holidays, we offer a variety of football and fun sports activity camps to local children. Weekly football coaching is held on week-day evenings and Saturday mornings at several venues in Wolverhampton.
After this apprenticeship
Possible permanent employment
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SPORT STRUCTURES EDUCATION COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY
Josh Wright
josh@soccercoaching2000.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000316207.
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Closes on Friday 18 July 2025
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