Summary
Coaches consistently deliver high-quality lessons that follow the set theme, curriculum, and lesson plans, ensuring sessions are structured, purposeful, and enjoyable. Coaches come fully prepared with a printed copy of the lesson plans and actively engage with the theme, including by wearing uniform and theme-related items to create excitement.
Wage
£12,563.20 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
There is a bonus scheme, this will be discussed at the interview stage .
Training course
Sports coach (level 4)
Hours
Between 7:45am - 5:45pm, Saturday & Sunday. Then 3 weekdays, 4.00pm - 8.00pm.
32 hours a week
Start date
Sunday 1 March 2026
Duration
1 year 6 months
Positions available
5
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
Purpose of the Role:
To deliver high-quality, engaging gymnastics lessons that are safe, structured, and enjoyable, ensuring every child feels valued and motivated to return. Coaches are directly responsible for creating exceptional first experiences for trial children, converting them into members, and retaining members long term.
Core Responsibilities:
Child Safety & Welfare: Maintain a safe training environment, follow safeguarding policies, and allow parents access when needed.
Lesson Delivery & Engagement: Deliver classes to plan, bring energy and theatre, ensure all children get attention and recognition.
Member Retention: Build strong relationships, encourage and reward children weekly, and create a fun, supportive environment.
Trial Conversion: Deliver great trial experiences, speak to parents about successes, and offer same-day sign-up with a free T-shirt.
Parent Communication: Always positive and encouraging, share progress, only give negatives when safety-related.
Professional Standards: Be punctual, in uniform, attend weekly site meetings, complete CPD, and update children’s books weekly.
Expected Standards of Performance
* Be enthusiastic, professional, and a role model for children.
* Complete all lesson paperwork (Certificates and books)
* Follow the lesson theme and structure every session.
* Contribute positively to the site team and support colleagues.
* Be proactive in helping children and parents feel welcome.
Key Results (Measures of Success)
* Trial Conversion: At least 55% of trials convert into members (rising to higher targets for bonuses)
* Member Retention: At least 90% of children in your classes remain enroled
Where you'll work
Xscape
Castleford
WF10 4TA
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
SCL EDUCATION & TRAINING 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
The apprentice will receive full on-the-job training as well as 20% off the job training. They will also receive wrap-around care from SCL.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
* Maths (grade 4)
* English (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
* Gymnastics Skills
* Organisation skills
* Communication skills
* Physical fitness
Other requirements
This is a physical role, you must have a passion for Gymnastics.