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Community Activator Coach Apprentice
We are seeking a motivated individual to join our team as a Community Activator Coach Apprentice. In this role, you will use technical and tactical sports knowledge to design and deliver coaching programmes that engage, motivate, and develop participants' skills and performance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coaching Delivery: Design and deliver fun, inclusive, and engaging coaching sessions across numerous sporting environments
- Promotion: Facilitate community events to promote participation in sport and increase understanding of the benefits of physical activity
- Safety & Inclusion: Develop and present safe coaching practices while meeting the needs of various customer groups
- Professional Development: Attend weekly workshops and complete on-the-job learning to master the knowledge, skills, and behaviours (KSBs) required of a sports coach
- Documentation: Build a portfolio of documented evidence, including 5 to 10 reflective accounts of day-to-day work scenarios
Core Responsibilities:
The core responsibilities for an apprentice in this role involve using technical and tactical sports knowledge to design and deliver coaching programmes that engage and motivate participants.
Coaching Responsibilities:
- Programme Design and Delivery: Design and deliver coaching sessions that are fun, inclusive, and engaging
- Safety Standards: Develop and present safe coaching practices within various sporting environments
- Participant Development: Use skills to develop the performance and skills of participants
- Meeting Diverse Needs: Understand a variety of customer groups and how to meet their specific needs
- Mentoring: Provide formal and informal mentoring for young people and youth workers, promoting personal development
Community Engagement Responsibilities:
- Behaviour Change: Help whole communities change their behaviour to adopt and maintain a physically active lifestyle
- Role Modelling: Act as a positive role model for customers and build rapport with them
- Event Facilitation: Facilitate community events specifically designed to promote participation in sport
- Promotion of Benefits: Increase community activity levels and the general understanding of the benefits of physical activity
- Administrative Duties: Maintain accurate records of programme participation and outcomes
- Monitoring and Evaluation: Collect and analyse feedback from participants to inform programme improvements
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Training provider
IGNITE SPORT UK LIMITED
Training course
Community activator coach (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents:
- Promote the benefits of a healthy lifestyle and physical activity for individuals and communities.
- Encourage individuals' participation, motivation and to change their behaviour towards sport or physical activity.
- Contribute to inclusive, safe and effective sessions.
- Plan, follow, adapt, and deliver session plans, based on participant needs and feedback.
- Use coaching styles for sport or physical activity sessions meeting the participants needs and motivations.
- Promote the benefits of a lifelong activity habit.
- Use techniques to build rapport with participants.
- Carry out the tasks required before, during and after a community activity.
- Support participants to overcome personal or societal barriers.
- Manage individuals' behaviours within a group setting.
- Work collaboratively with services and other community organisations to run events that make the best use resources.
- Record and store data and information, in line with legislation and organisational policies and procedures.
- Use suitable digital technology to deliver targeted messages to participant groups.
- Adapt communication methods to meet the needs of participants and groups.
- Identify and respond to safeguarding concerns within own scope of role and in line with organisational protocols.
- Support equity, diversity and inclusion in line with legislation and organisational policies.
- Support the mental health and wellbeing of self and participants.
- Comply with health and safety legislation, regulations, risk assessment procedures, guidelines and procedures.
- Participate in personal and professional development.
- Maintain professional boundaries within scope of own role.
- Monitor and review the effectiveness of activity sessions.
- Assist with the resolution of challenges and problems.
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Training schedule
Off-the-Job Training: You will be provided with a minimum of 6 hours of formal learning time per week, including sessions delivered via MS Teams and face-to-face. Online sessions take place every fortnight.
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Passing a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
Sporting Elite is Not Just About Sports...
We're all about working with Schools, Parents and the Community to help children and young people realise their potential.
We've proven that through the power of sports and activities, children get more focused, become less disruptive, attract more positive friendships, and stay away from the 'wrong' crowd and off these dangerous streets.
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Upon successful completion, potential pathways include:
- Level 3 Teaching Assistant (Sport)
- School Coach (PE Delivery)
- Community Sports Coach (Grassroots Coaching)
- Roles within leisure and outdoor education
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
IGNITE SPORT UK LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000052089.
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