Summary
The Sports Coach has an important role to play in improving the health and wellbeing of communities by delivering fun, inclusive and engaging activities that help to bring about a change in physical activity. They will use sports knowledge to design and deliver coaching programmes that engage participants’ skills and performance.
Wage
£6,281.60 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
£7.55 per hour for the initial 12 months
National Minimum Wage from 12 months onwards
Training course
Sports coach (level 4)
Hours
We deliver sessions Monday to Friday and expect to offer a minimum of 15 hours per week, although this is flexible and dependent on the timetable from September. This will be year round and not only term time. Shifts to be confirmed.
16 hours a week
Start date
Monday 9 February 2026
Duration
1 year 8 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
Are you passionate about sport and physical activity? Do you love working with children to make a difference and impact on their learning and wellbeing? 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!
School Sport Coaches design and deliver coaching programmes that focus on the acceleration of sustainable mastery of children’s psychomotor skills and wider physical education standards. They profile children’s cognitive, social, emotional and physical development needs. They measure psychomotor, technical and tactical skills in a range of physical activity contexts drawn from the Department for Education’s National Curriculum to enable physical education targets to be agreed. These results are used to create a high-level curriculum plan that considers school term schedules and a ‘whole child’ development approach.
* Supporting the delivery of high quality and inclusive PE lessons to pupils in school in line with the requirements of the national curriculum for PE
* Support/lead extra-curricular activities and clubs
* Assist with school games competitions & events
* Run/organise and support physical activity and engagement at break and lunch times
* To support pupils in accessing other learning activities as directed by the teacher
* To provide cover for PE / Sports staff when absent
* To ensure the maintenance of PE equipment, checking for quality and safety, undertaking repairs / modifications within your own capabilities and reporting other damages as appropriate.
* To monitor stock and supplies, cataloguing as required
* To prepare PE equipment / resources / materials as required by staff within strict time scales
* To implement structured learning activities / teaching programmes in line with the National Curriculum, under the direction of the teacher
* To demonstrate, and assist others in the safe and effective use of PE equipment / materials
* To provide feedback to pupils in relation to progress and achievement
* To maintain records as requested
* Administration tasks related to planning and evaluating coaching activities/projects
* Safeguard children at all times
* Supervise and support pupils ensuring their safety, by complying with good H&S practice
* Support the teachers and other staff in managing pupil behaviour, reporting difficulties as appropriate
Why Choose Evo Sports:
Evo Sports is the perfect place for a young person who wants an active, rewarding and varied role in sport or education.
Apprentices choose us because we offer:
* Energetic work where every day feels different
* Supportive mentoring and real coaching experience
* Opportunities to lead sessions early in the apprenticeship
* Experience across PE, childcare, youth leadership and holiday activities
* A friendly, professional and ambitious team
* A chance to make a real impact on children’s confidence and wellbeing
You won’t be stuck behind a desk—you’ll be teaching, leading, running games, planning lessons, interacting with staff and becoming an important part of school life.
If you are passionate about sport, enjoy working with young people and want a career that is active, meaningful and exciting, Evo Sports is the perfect place to begin your journey.
Where you'll work
You can select which locations you want to apply for in your application on Find an apprenticeship.
This apprenticeship is available in these locations:
* Bath Road, Peasedown St. John, Bath, BA2 8DH
* School Lane, Kilmersdon, Radstock, BA3 5TE
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
ASPIRE TRAINING SOLUTIONS (UK) LIMITED
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
During this programme, apprentices will engage with training that will develop and enhance their coaching skills and equip them to work in a variety of environments, with a range of stakeholders and work effectively in partnership with other organisations.
In addition to this, there will also be a unique opportunity for candidates to engage with training that will develop and enhance their classroom practice/teaching skills so they can deliver whole class teaching for PE.
Level 4 School Sports Coach Apprenticeship Standard
Sector specific CPD, such as:
* Multi-skills coaching - practical coaching skills
* Behaviour Management
* Practical PE Curriculum
* Outdoor adventurous activities
* Gymnastics
* Dance
* Safeguarding / Prevent
* Mental Health and Wellbeing
Requirements
Essential qualifications
BTEC in:
Sports Coaching (grade Pass)
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
English and Maths (grade C or 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
* Communication skills
* Organisation skills
* Presentation skills
* Administrative skills
* Logical
* Team working
* Physical fitness
* Working with Children
* Report Writing
* Sports Coaching
Other requirements
Candidates must be confident and happy to travel to and from the school location each day. Please only apply for this apprenticeship if the location suits your mode of transport and travel times etc.