School Sports Coach Apprenticeship

Passionate about sport and working with children? Join a friendly team as a Sports Coach Apprentice and inspire young people through fun, inclusive activities. Help improve health, wellbeing and physical activity while developing your coaching skills and making a real difference.

What you'll do

School Sport Coaches design and deliver coaching programmes that focus on the acceleration of sustainable mastery of children's psychomotor skills and wider physical education standards. They profile children's cognitive, social, emotional and physical development needs. They measure psychomotor, technical and tactical skills in a range of physical activity contexts drawn from the Department for Education's National Curriculum to enable physical education targets to be agreed. These results are used to create a high-level curriculum plan that considers school term schedules and a ‘whole child' development approach.

Supporting the delivery of high quality and inclusive PE lessons to pupils in school in line with the requirements of the national curriculum for PE:

• Support / lead extra-curricular activities and clubs
• Assist with school games competitions and events
• Run / organise and support physical activity and engagement at break and lunch times
• To support pupils in accessing other learning activities as directed by the teacher
• To provide cover for PE / Sports staff when absent
• To ensure the maintenance of PE equipment, checking for quality and safety, undertaking repairs / modifications within your own capabilities and reporting other damages as appropriate
• To monitor stock and supplies, cataloguing as required
• To prepare PE equipment / resources / materials as required by staff within strict time scales
• To implement structured learning activities / teaching programmes in line with the National Curriculum, under the direction of the teacher
• To demonstrate, and assist others in the safe and effective use of PE equipment / materials
• To provide feedback to pupils in relation to progress and achievement
• To maintain records as requested
• To provide clerical and administration support to the teacher, such as typing, printing, photocopying and display work
• To participate in meetings as required
• Administration tasks related to planning and evaluating coaching activities / projects
• Safeguard children at all times
• Supervise and support pupils ensuring their safety, by complying with good H&S practice
• Contribute to raising standards by ensuring high expectations are shared with children
• Supervise and support pupils ensuring their safety, by complying with good H&S practice
• Support the teachers and other staff in managing pupil behaviour, reporting difficulties as appropriate

Training

Level 4 School Sports Coach Apprenticeship Standard

Sector specific CPD, such as:

• Multi skills coaching - practical coaching skills
• Behaviour Management
• Practical PE Curriculum
• Outdoor adventurous activities
• Gymnastics
• Dance
• Safeguarding / Prevent
• Mental Health and Wellbeing

After the apprenticeship

We will support you in your personal development by providing you with the underpinning knowledge, skills and experience for the following:

• Careers within the Sport Coaching industry
• Careers within the Education sector including Behaviour & Learning Mentors, Teaching Assistants and Primary Teaching
• Potential further employment with the employer
• Opportunity for further education
• Candidates successfully achieving this apprenticeship will be eligible to apply for membership with the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA) as a Practitioner

Skills

• Communication skills
• Organisation skills
• Customer care skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Creative
• Initiative
• Patience
• Physical fitness

Qualifications

• Desired: GCSE, Sport (grade Pass)

Things to consider

The successful applicant will receive:

• Allocated mentor
• Access to internal training provided by the employer
• Access to apprenticeship training delivered by Aspire Training Solutions (as outlined above)
• Allocated learning hours within the working week

About the employer

Hanson Academy has a proud heritage being established as a place of education over a century ago, in 1897. Delta Academies Trust welcomed Hanson into its Trust in July 2022.

Hanson is a large academy with an average of 285 students in each year group. The long established Sixth Form caters for a further 200 – 300 students, offering a range of level 2 and level 3 academic and vocational courses. It is a school which has been on a journey and made incredible gains over the past 2 years since being with Delta. It now has more students passing English and Maths GCSE than most comprehensive schools in Bradford and one of the broadest curriculum offers in the city with over 20 Options subjects at GCSE in addition to core subjects. We run multiple open mornings throughout the year because we are proud of our community and the way our children work, if you want to visit to see for yourself please get in touch.

Hanson Academy has 48 main feeder primary schools, with the majority of our students living within a 3-mile radius and either walking or cycling every day. We are very proud of the students who attend our academy and their engagement with our enrichment curriculum working with West Yorkshire Fire Service, West Yorkshire Police and the Duke of Edinburgh award to name a few examples. We also work with a number of teacher training providers which infuses excellent practice into the academy.

As a diverse but integrated population we take great pride in developing students' characters and developing their understanding and acceptance of each other and their different backgrounds. We continually promote high expectations of our students, fully appreciating that nurturing the development of young people is a unique privilege. We strive to provide a broad, balanced and inclusive curriculum that respects the needs of all pupils as well as one that encourages young people to seek continuous development and improvement, which in turn will enhance their life chances.

Apprenticeship details

• Course: Sports coach (level 4), Health and science
• Apprenticeship level: Higher (level 4)
• Training provider: ASPIRE TRAINING SOLUTIONS (UK) LIMITED
• Expected duration: 1 Year 6 Months
• Hours: 35 hours a week. Working week: Monday - Friday. Times to be confirmed.
• Start date: 16 November 2026
• Positions available: 1
• Wage: £14,560 a year