Sport Coach apprenticeship

Summary

Train as a Sports Coach, supporting the delivery of PE, sports clubs, wraparound care and holiday camp activities. Gain hands-on coaching experience, mentoring and a recognised qualification while helping children stay active, confident and engaged.

Wage

£10,400 to £16,523, depending on your age

National Minimum Wage

Training course

Sports coach (level 4)

Hours

Term-time hours may include: Breakfast Club: Monday to Friday, 7:30am - 9.00am After School Club: Monday to Friday, 2.45pm - 5.30pm. School holiday hours may include Holiday Clubs: Monday to Friday, 7.30am - 5.30pm.

25 hours a week

Start date

Thursday 16 July 2026

Duration

1 year 3 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

The Sports Coach Apprenticeship with Premier Education is an exciting opportunity to earn while you learn, gaining hands-on experience in sports coaching, physical activity and working with children.

Apprentices will support the delivery of PE lessons, before and after school clubs, lunchtime activities, holiday camps and sports sessions. This role is ideal for someone who is energetic, enthusiastic and passionate about helping children develop confidence, teamwork and a love of physical activity.

The apprentice will work alongside experienced coaches and managers, learning how to plan, deliver and review safe, engaging and inclusive sports activities for children aged 3 to 11.

Responsibilities of a Sports Coach Apprentice:

• Support the planning and delivery of fun, safe and engaging PE and sports sessions
• Assist with before-school, lunchtime and after-school clubs
  Support holiday camp activities and childcare provision where required
• Set up, organise and pack away sports equipment safely
• Encourage children to participate, build confidence and stay physically active
• Support children’s behaviour, well-being and engagement during sessions
• Help create an inclusive environment for children of all ages and abilities
• Follow safeguarding, health and safety, and company procedures at all times
• Work professionally with schools, parents, colleagues and children
• Assist senior coaches with delivering high-quality activities across a variety of sports
• Attend training, team meetings and development opportunities
• Develop coaching, communication, leadership and childcare skills throughout the apprenticeship

Where you'll work

Downfield Road
Cheshunt
Waltham Cross
EN8 8SS

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

• 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 complete training in the workplace, supported by regular sessions with The Educationwise Academy Ltd
• Training will take place alongside practical experience in before and after school clubs, holiday camps and childcare settings
• The apprentice will receive workplace mentoring, tutor support and regular progress reviews throughout the apprenticeship

More training information

Training will be delivered by The Educationwise Academy Ltd and will combine practical workplace experience with structured apprenticeship training, regular reviews and ongoing tutor support throughout the programme

Requirements

Essential qualifications

BTEC in:

Sport, Childcare, Health and Social Care (grade Any)

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

• English (grade A*-C/4-9)
• Maths (grade A*-C/4-9)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

• Communication skills
• Creative
• Initiative
• Patience

Other requirements

Desired qualifications and candidate requirements:

The employer is looking for candidates who live within approximately a 20-minute travel radius of the vacancy location. Applications from candidates with a travel time above this may not be progressed.

• Level 2 or Level 3 qualification in sport, Childcare, Health and Social Care, or Performing Arts - desirable
• Experience of working within a play-based setting - desirable
• Experience of administration - desirable
• Appropriate child protection training - desirable
• Paediatric First Aid Certificate - desirable
• Food Hygiene Certificate - desirable
• Candidates must be aged 18+ due to Ofsted requirements
• Candidates must have a driving licence and access to transport.
• Experience of working with children aged 3 to 11, an understanding of the varied needs of children and their families, and an understanding of the delivery of quality play care
• Candidates should understand equal opportunities, be able to provide and facilitate safe and creative play, communicate well, work as part of a team, use sound judgement and common sense, and have sufficient English to support the well-being of children