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Leicester College is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Apprentice Sports Coach to join our thriving Sports Academy team. This exciting opportunity combines hands-on coaching experience, and the opportunity to lead the Men's Football Pathway Squad through the competitive season.
Wage: Competitive wage offered
Training course: Sports coach (level 4)
Hours: TBC 37 hours a week
Start date: Monday 26 October 2026
Duration: 2 years
Positions available: 1
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
Kickstart Your Coaching Career with Leicester College
Are you passionate about football coaching and looking to take the next step in your development? Working alongside experienced sports professionals, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality coaching sessions, supporting student-athletes to reach their potential, and contributing to the growth of our wider Sports Academy programme.
This role is ideal for an aspiring coach who wants to develop their practical coaching skills while gaining valuable experience in an educational sporting environment.
About the Role
As Apprentice Sports Coach, you will lead and support coaching provision within the Men's Football Academy, delivering engaging and development-focused sessions for Further Education students.
You will work closely with the Sport Development Officer to develop the football pathway, support competitive fixtures, and help create a positive and inclusive sporting experience for all participants across the Academies.
Alongside your day-to-day coaching responsibilities, you will undertake a Level 4 Sports Coach Apprenticeship, applying your learning directly within the role to develop your coaching knowledge, leadership skills and professional practice.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coaching Delivery
- Plan and deliver high-quality football coaching sessions within the Men’s Football Academy (Men’s Pathway)
- Work alongside the Sport Development Officer (SDO) to design and develop the football offer at Leicester College
- Lead sessions that develop technical, tactical, physical and match performance
- Take responsibility for session planning, delivery and evaluation
- Support match-day preparation, analysis and performance review
- Student Development & Engagement
- Build positive, professional relationships with FE students
- Promote an inclusive coaching environment, ensuring all students can participate regardless of ability or background
- Support students to engage in sport alongside their studies and promote wider participation
- Actively promote physical activity and engagement across the College
- Act as a positive role model, consistently demonstrating College professional values
- Wider Sports Academy Contribution
- Support the delivery of fixtures, competitions and trips across all academies and the wider Sport provision
- Organise and lead promotional events to support recruitment and engagement
- Positively represent Leicester College at internal and external meetings and events
- Work collaboratively with colleagues to support the wider Sports Academy offer
- Administration, Planning & Resources
- Accurately record attendance for training sessions and fixtures in a timely manner
- Support the creation and scheduling of marketing and social media content to promote academy activity, results and opportunities
- Ensure equipment and kit is regularly reviewed, maintained and available to support effective delivery
- AND such other duties as are within the scope of the spirit of the job purpose, the title of the post and its grading.
Where you'll work
Abbey Park Campus
Painter Street
Leicester
LE1 3WA
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
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Training provider
LOUGHBOROUGH COLLEGE
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.
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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 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.
Training schedule
Level 4 Sports Coach
L4 Apprenticeship Standard in Sports Coach-
L2 Functional Skills English and maths (if required)
How will the apprentice train?
- Online portfolio to update with learning and development completed onsite
- Diarised visits from dedicated Trainer/Assessor
- Attendance to Loughborough College for Functional Skills (if required)
- On-the-job training
- Off-the-job training
More training information
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.
Attendance at Loughborough College for an Induction Day (9:30am-3pm) once enrolled. (Confirmation of date provided upon enrolment).
Essential qualifications
- GCSE in:
- English (grade C/4)
- Maths (grade C/4)
Minimum of UEFA C Diploma Coaching in:
(FA Level 2) (grade Pass)
Level 3 in:
Sport, Coaching or
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