Summary
Kick-start your career in sports coaching with a hands-on apprenticeship supporting sessions, planning activities and developing athletes of all ages. Gain a recognised qualification, real coaching experience and mentoring from professionals while earning and progressing in sport.
Wage
£12,480 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
A salary increase will take place after a year.
Training course
Sports coach (level 4)
Hours
Shifts across the week, varied times. TBC.
30 hours a week
Start date
Tuesday 7 July 2026
Duration
1 year 6 months
Positions available
2
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
* Teaching sport and physical activities to children and young people, both in school curriculum time following the PE National Curriculum and/or set programs of study and also deliver a range of OSHL, (Out Of School Hours Learning) extracurricular activities before school, at lunch times, after school and in school holiday periods
* Improving child development and fitness through high delivery standards
* Successful candidates would also be expected to deliver and support wrap around clubs in the mornings before school and after school
Where you'll work
Chatsworth Road
Chesterfield
S40 3NS
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
THE EDUCATIONWISE ACADEMY LTD
Training course
Sports coach (level 4)
What you'll learn
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.
Training schedule
This training schedule has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.
Requirements
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
* Communication skills
* IT skills
* Team working