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Apprentice Sports Coach
Apprentice Sports Coach supporting PE lessons, after-school clubs, football sessions, holiday camps and community sessions across Harlow and surrounding areas, while working towards a Community Activator Coach apprenticeship.
Day-to-day duties will include:
- Assisting with PE lessons
- Breakfast, lunchtime and after-school clubs
- Football coaching
- Holiday camps and community projects
The apprentice will help prepare equipment, support behaviour management, encourage participation, adapt activities for different abilities and build positive relationships with children, parents, schools and partner organisations. They will also learn about session planning, safeguarding, risk assessments, communication with schools/families and some basic admin or marketing support where appropriate.
Alongside this, you will also gain your Community Activator Coach Level 2 qualification over the duration of 12-18 months.
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
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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This is an active, practical role and will involve working in different environments including schools, sports halls, outdoor pitches and community venues. Some sessions may take place outdoors in different weather conditions. The role may include early mornings, after-school hours, evenings, weekends and school holiday work depending on programme needs.
The candidate will need to be reliable, flexible and able to travel to different delivery sites. Driving is not essential, but access to transport would be preferable.
There may be opportunities to progress into a paid coaching role, assistant coach role, lead coach position or wider roles within school PE, holiday camps, community sport, mentoring or youth programmes. As Strike Group continues to grow, the apprentice will be supported to build their skills, gain experience across different settings and work towards additional coaching, safeguarding and first aid qualifications.
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