Start your career in sports coaching

Support fun, safe, and engaging physical activity sessions for children aged 4 - 11. Gain practical experience while completing a Level 4 Sports Coach apprenticeship and learning how to plan sessions, manage behavior, and support child development.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Plan, deliver, and evaluate engaging physical activity sessions for children aged 4-11
• Ensure the safety, wellbeing, and active participation of all children
• Adapt activities to suit different abilities, needs, and behaviors
• Support children who require additional help to take part
• Promote positive behavior and create an encouraging environment
• Communicate effectively with children, parents, and school staff
• Follow safeguarding, child protection, health, and safety policies
• Demonstrate professionalism, punctuality, and positive role modeling
• Complete apprenticeship training and apply learning in practice

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)

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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. Facilate 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 maximize 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 participant's 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. Facilate participant development by applying learning theory and skill acquisition techniques relevant to participants' needs, sport-specific demands, and context. Facilate participant development and skill acquisition through positive learning environments and behaviour management strategies. Facilate 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 through 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.