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Community Activator - Swim Specialism Apprenticeship
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Support Sports delivery (swimming lessons), assist coaching sessions, and develop skills through our apprenticeship programme at CV Life
Gain hands-on experience, mentoring, and qualifications while inspiring young people through sport.
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Providing additional support in the pool to children with SEND needs to ensure inclusivity of the programme
- To support on organising community and competitive events
- Supervise and support members of the public, ensuring their safety by complying with good H&S practice
- To interact positively with customers adopting a friendly and professional approach at all times
- To support the Company’s commitment to providing a safe environment for children, young people and vulnerable adults, ensuring awareness of the Company’s Safeguarding Policy, Procedures and Practice Guidance, and to be vigilant, reporting any safeguarding concerns without delay
Where you'll work
You can select which locations you want to apply for in your application on Find an apprenticeship.
This apprenticeship is available in these locations:
- Allard Way, Coventry, CV3 1JP
- Bell Green Road, Coventry, CV6 7GP
- Xcel Leisure Centre, Mitchell Avenue, Coventry, CV4 8DY
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
COVENTRY COLLEGE
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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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.
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Assist with the resolution of challenges and problems.
Training schedule
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Enthusiastic
Other requirements
- The ability to travel between locations.
- Strong swimmer.
- Enhanced DBS Clearance (Will be undertaken if successful).
- Interest or experience of swimming and water safety skills.
- Determined and committed to learn and succeed.
- Commitment to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults.
CV Life provides the opportunity for Coventry residents and visitors to have an improved experience of sport, culture and leisure within the city.
CV Life provides a vast leisure and cultural offer to all communities in Coventry and visitors to the city, offering everything from attractions, museums, leisure centres, educational programmes to community outreach projects.
https://cvlife.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
You may choose to stay within a community setting and work your way up to becoming a more senior coach, or work in the leisure industry, with career options in leisure management or sports development.
Alternatively, if you prefer working with younger people, you could become a teaching assistant who specialises in PE. You could go on to study the following qualifications:
- Specialised Coaching Qualifications: You can pursue specific coaching qualifications within your chosen sport to become a high-level coach.
- Level 3 Teaching Assistant with a PE and Wellbeing Focus: If you're interested in working within a school setting, this can be a natural progression.
- Level 4 Sports Coach Apprenticeship: This would allow you to develop more advanced coaching skills and potentially specialise in a particular sport or type of coaching (e.g., high-performance, community, or school pathways).
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
COVENTRY COLLEGE
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000041508.
Closes in 21 days (Friday 31 July 2026 at 11:59pm)
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