Level 4 Sports Coach Apprenticeship - Harris Primary Academy Chafford Hundred
Harris Primary Academy Chafford Hundred
Essex, RM16 6SA
Closes in 19 days (Monday 6 January)
Posted on 12 December 2024
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Summary
As a Sports Coach in a school setting, the role will focus on promoting health and well-being across the school and supporting the PE Lead to deliver physical education. If you would like to inspire others to be physically active this is the role for you. For the right person, there is a potential pathway within school sport.
- Annual wage
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£11,279.76 a year
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
38 weeks per year, 30 hours per week
- Training course
- Sports coach (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday.
Hours to be confirmed.
30 hours a week
- Possible start date
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Monday 27 January
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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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
- Gain invaluable insight and experience of working within a school setting. Developing knowledge, skills, and behaviours to support the teacher and inspire young people to learn
- Be a role model for healthy, active lifestyles and support the delivery of physical education, physical activity, health and well-being, and school sport
- Extend opportunities for all pupils to participate in extracurricular activities. Deliver active lunchtimes and support after school and community sport
- Support with administrative tasks associated with sports teams, events and competitions
- Assist the teacher in the classroom to support pupil progress and enhance the learning experience of children
- Support the efficient organisation of storage areas, teaching aids and equipment
- Working as part of the school team is a role model for learning, PE and school sport
- Support and help create, plan, and deliver the national PE curriculum for a school
Where you’ll work
Harris Primary Academy Chafford Hundred
Chafford Hundred
Grays
Essex
RM16 6SA
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
SPORTING FUTURES TRAINING (UK) 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
Sports Coach Level 4 Apprenticeship Standard qualification:
- Training is provided through virtual learning
- The programme provides opportunities to share experiences with other apprentices and learn from experienced professionals
Knowledge, skills & Behaviours Developed through research tasks:
- The Wider Picture- Know and understand how education has developed, understanding the National Curriculum
- Teaching Philosophy - How the environment influences teaching
Coaching and Teaching - How to coach in different environments - lesson planning - Behaviour Support - Developing learning techniques
- Learning and Development - How do learners learn?
- Learning Resources - Examples and how they can be used in lessons
- Curriculum Development - Writing a curriculum overview
- Profiling - Working 1:1 on development
- Curriculum - Medium-term development, designing a Scheme of Work
- Sports Partnership Work - Managing competitions
- CPD development and self - awareness
They will also complete training to deliver:
- Gymnastics (Once completed learners will have the knowledge and skills to deliver high quality and safe gymnastics lessons)
- Outdoor Adventurous Activities
- Dance
- Organising Sports events (including Sports Day)
- Developing lesson plans and schemes of work
- Opportunity to gain relevant Level 2 National Governing Body Qualification
- Safeguarding Level 1
- Prevent duty
- Working towards Level 2 Functional Skills (where appropriate)
- Opportunities to gain additional coaching qualifications
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- English, Maths (grade 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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
Other requirements
You would be working with an Ofsted - OUTSTANDING (Sept 2021) and National Award -Winning Training Provider.
About this company
It is a pleasure to welcome you Library 18 of 143to the Harris Primary Academy Chafford Hundred website. We hope this visit will give you an idea of who we are, what we believe in, and how we aim to prepare our students for an ever changing and exciting world. We are a 3 form entry primary school from Recpetion to Year 6, which also includes a 52 place Nursery. Harris Primary Academy Chafford Hundred (HPACH) is a successful academy that was judged outstanding in every category in our October 2018 Ofsted inspection. We are a sister school to Harris Primary Academy Mayflower and Harris Academy Chafford Hundred, along with the other Academies in the Harris Federation. We work very closely together and share the very best practice and leadership knowledge and capacity to make the education we offer outstanding. Our shared belief is that children thrive when they feel consistently happy and safe at school and our commitment to excellence is encapsulated in our vision statement: "Excellence, Every child, Every day." Our Core values of: Teamwork, Resilience, Respect, Responsibility and Community underpin everything that happens at Harris Primary Academy Chafford Hundred. They are our foundations and we have a clear expectation that all adults, as well as children and staff, model and respect these values both inside and outside the academy. Our team are committed to every child, and aim to develop confident and creative learners who leave the academy ready for secondary and the world ahead of them. We proudly celebrate our children’s diversity and achievements, from both school and at home. Whether they are learning English and Maths, Latin or Mandarin, competing in sports, or discussing their dream occupations, we do whatever it takes to ensure our pupils gain the confidence to aspire and flourish in life. At HPACH, we work tirelessly to make sure that every child comes to recognise their own potential. As a result of the exceptional practice at our academy every single day, our children achieve outstanding outcomes each year and we are incredibly proud of them. Alongside academic achievement, we want our academy to be a safe and caring space for children who are excited and happy to come to school every day to learn, grow and develop. We offer many opportunities for our parents and the local community to share in our students learning and encourage our parents to attend academy events. I look forward to welcoming you into our academy. Miss L Arnell Head of Academy
After this apprenticeship
- Higher education pathway
- Teaching assistant within a school setting
- Pathway into teaching
- Working in a sector that involves, initiative, leadership, communication, developing positive relationships
- Transferable skills that are invaluable in the wider world of work
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
SPORTING FUTURES TRAINING (UK) LTD
Adam Baker
vacancies@esfapprenticeships.co.uk
01438 791068
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000291654.
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Closes in 19 days (Monday 6 January)
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Company’s application instructions
Please visit the apprenticeship training provider to apply: www.sportingfuturestraining.co.uk Download application form and send it through to vacancies@esfapprenticeships.co.uk Any queries contact: Sporting Futures Training - 01438 791068/ 07901 603292