Sports Coach Apprentice

Summary

Are you passionate about sport and physical activity? Can you be a positive role model to inspire and motivate children? Would you relish the opportunity to work alongside a friendly, supportive and hard-working team? If so, our apprenticeship opportunity may be perfect for you!

Wage

£9,984 a year

Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)

After 12 months your wage will increase to National Minimumum Wage.

Training course

Sports coach (level 4)

Hours

You will work Monday to Friday, with shifts to be agreed at interview.

30 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 14 April

Duration

1 year 6 months

Positions available

1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Working directly with pupils of all ages
Working collaboratively with a wide range of partner
organisations and industry specialists
Planning and delivering programmes of physical activity for
pupils, families and communities
Performing physical activity and fundamental movement skills
baseline and impact assessments of children
Supporting the delivery of high quality and inclusive PE lessons
to pupils in schools in line with the requirements of national
curriculum for PE and the profile of needs across the pupil
population
Delivering an exciting extracurricular sports and activity
programme including lunchtime activities in
schools/communities/leisure facilities
Offering family engagement projects for physical activity
Delivering provision to enhance the mental health, self-esteem
and wellbeing of service users
Supporting competitive sports events
Coordinating sports and physical activity related projects
Safeguard children at all times
Contribute to the overall ethos and working values of the school
Contribute to raising standards by ensuring high expectations are shared with children
Supervise and support pupils ensuring their safety, by complying with good H&S practice
Support the teachers and coaches in managing pupil behaviour, reporting difficulties as appropriate
Attend training sessions as required for CPD purposes

Where you’ll work

Bungalow, Park Mead Primary School

Park Drive

Cranleigh

GU6 7HB

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

KIDZ ZONE CLUB LTD

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

The training will take place in the workplace, and will also include weekly online sessions with your tutor.

More training information

The training will be delivered by Future Training (Kidz Zone Club Ltd), who are an Ofsted rated 'Good' provider.
The training will be delivered through a blended approach which will include webinars, online learning and practical delivery.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths & English (grade A**-C/9-4)

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
Non judgemental
Patience
Sports Coaching
Working with Children
Report Writing

Other requirements

Ideally be able to drive or have transport available as you will be expected to travel to various locations during the week.

About this company

We are Sports Stars UK, a children ‘s sports coaching company whose aim is to engage and inspire children of all abilities from 4 years up to 12 years of age through sport. We are passionate about providing the opportunity for young children to experience all the benefits participate ing in sports provides. Through our safe, fun, rewarding and exciting after school sessions, breakfast clubs, birthday parties, PPA cover and Sports Holiday camps we deliver the very best sports experience for our young sporting stars

After this apprenticeship

We will support you in your personal development by providing you
with the underpinning knowledge, skills and experience to become a qualified and full time sports coach.

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