Community Activator Coach Apprentice

Summary

As Community Activator Coach Apprentice, you will support and enable whole communities to live better through physical activity, organised play and sport. Promoting and delivering fun, inclusive and engaging activities that help inactive groups of people to change their behaviour, adopt a physically active lifestyle.

Wage

£14,526.20 to £23,492.04, depending on your age

National Minimum Wage

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Training course

Community activator coach (level 2)

Hours

Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm but may be required to work evenings or weekends as and when required.

37 hours a week

Start date

Saturday 7 June 2025

Duration

1 year 6 months

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

Obtain knowledge on how to coach or lead pre-planned sport or physical activity sessions that are engaging to the target audience(s) and develop motivational relationships with participants.
Assist with and promote a physical activity offer, (including but not exclusively) organised play and sport in the community which supports individuals on their behaviour change journey.
Learn how to plan, adapt sessions and activities that respond to customer feedback and encourage participants to develop a lifelong activity habit.
Support and contribute to the employer’s design of activities and services and practising the employer’s organisation’s values, policies and procedures, maintaining personal safety and wellbeing, as well as that of participants.
Learn to work effectively with data insight to overcome individual, community and societal barriers to participation in physical activity and sport supporting co-production of rewarding volunteering opportunities.
Encourage communities to be regularly active – both formally and informally – to participate together in sport and physical activity within community settings or leisure facilities including open-space.
Working towards supporting organisations to evaluate, develop and promote sessions and other opportunities such as outdoor group exercise and informal social play.
Learn to support effective monitoring and evaluation of activities, sessions and projects using technology platforms to maintain accurate records and produce timely reports.
Working towards collaborating effectively with sports clubs and other community assets – including volunteers, public services, youth workers, the police and community champions.
Comply with our data protection policies and procedures to ensure that personal data is handled in an appropriate manner – safely and securely.

Where you’ll work

Leisure Centre
Cowdray Avenue
Colchester
CO1 1YH

Training

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

College or training organisation

LIFETIME TRAINING GROUP LIMITED

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

This training plan has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

Requirements

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
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Presentation skills
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience
Physical fitness

About this company

As a Council we want to work with partners to get the best for our residents, businesses and visitors. We want to continue to be a high performing Council with motivated employees who are proud to work here and make a difference to people’s lives. We need to use our resources wisely and draw on and develop the talent and skills we have in the organisation to be even better than we are in everything that we do.

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Company benefits

Free Gym membership. Various Staff discounts at Leisure World. Pension with immediate life cover. Generous Annual Leave. Travel Discounts. Online Discounts.

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

Internal opportunities.

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