Sports Coach Apprentice

SUPER STAR SPORT MIDLANDS LTD
Leicester (LE2 4DJ)
Closes on Friday 13 November 2026
Posted on 7 October 2026

Summary
Super Star Sport is looking for an enthusiastic Sports Coach to deliver fun, engaging sports sessions for children across Leicestershire. If you're passionate about sport, confident leading activities, and eager to inspire young people, you'll benefit from training, flexible hours, career progression, and a supportive team environment.

Wage
£12,480 to £19,827.60, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage

Benefits

• £1040 a month
• £100 fuel card a month
• 30 hours a week

Training

• Course: Sports coach (level 4)
• Hours: To be confirmed during interview stage. 30 hours a week
• Start date: Monday 23 November 2026
• Duration: 1 year
• Positions available: 1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

Sports Coach - Super Star Sport
Location: Leicestershire
Position: Sports Coach
Company: Super Star Sport

Are you passionate about sport, coaching, and inspiring children? Do you bring energy, enthusiasm, and positivity to every session? If so, Super Star Sport is looking for a Sports Coach to join our growing team in Leicestershire.

As a Sports Coach, you will be responsible for delivering fun, engaging, and high-quality sports sessions to children of all ages. You'll create a safe, positive, and energetic environment where children can build confidence, develop new skills, and enjoy being active. The role involves working across schools, holiday camps, and community settings while acting as a positive role model and ambassador for Super Star Sport.

We're looking for someone who has a genuine passion for sport and working with children, along with a positive attitude, strong reliability, and plenty of enthusiasm. You should be confident leading groups, delivering activities, and communicating effectively with both children and colleagues. A willingness to learn, develop, and grow within the role is essential.

While not required, coaching qualifications, experience working with children, a First Aid qualification, and an Enhanced DBS certificate would be advantageous. However, support can be provided for the right candidate who is keen to develop their skills and experience.

In return, we offer competitive pay, full training and ongoing support, flexible working hours, opportunities for career progression, and a fun, supportive team environment. Most importantly, you'll have the chance to make a genuine difference to children's lives by helping them enjoy sport, build confidence, and stay active.

If you're enthusiastic, motivated, and ready to inspire the next generation through sport, we'd love to hear from you. Join Super Star Sport and become part of a team dedicated to creating positive sporting experiences for children across Leicestershire.

Where you'll work

10 Pelham St, Oadby, Leicester LE2 4DJ

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider: SCL EDUCATION & TRAINING LIMITED
Training course: Sports coach (level 4)

What you'll learn

• 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.
• 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 targeted 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.