Level 4 Sports Coach Apprentice

NEXT Retail Ltd.; Burton Joyce; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading sports coaching company in the UK is offering a Level 4 Sports Coach Apprenticeship. The apprentice will support the planning and delivery of coaching sessions across various sports, aimed at enhancing athlete performance and promoting physical literacy. Responsibilities include assisting with session planning, attending training, and providing feedback to athletes. Candidates should have GCSEs in English and Maths, a BTEC in Coaching, and excellent communication and organizational skills. A driving license is essential for this role.

Qualifications

• GCSEs in English and Maths with minimum grade 4.
• BTEC in Coaching with a minimum grade Level 1 or 2.
• Driving licence and own vehicle essential for travel.

Responsibilities

• Support athletes in developing their skills.
• Assist with session planning and risk assessments.
• Attend training and workshops as required.
• Deliver coaching services in various settings.

Skills

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Organisation skills

Customer care skills

Problem solving skills

Presentation skills

Analytical skills

Logical

Team working

Creative

Initiative

Non judgemental

Patience

Physical fitness

Education

GCSE in English (grade 4)

GCSE in Maths (grade 4)

BTEC in Coaching (grade Level 1 or 2)

Job description

The Level 4 Sports Coach Apprentice will support the planning, delivery, and evaluation of high-quality coaching sessions across a range of sports and age groups. Working alongside experienced coaches, you will help to develop athlete performance, promote physical literacy, and contribute to community and school-based programmes.

Athlete Development

• Support athletes in developing technical, tactical, physical, and psychological skills.
• Contribute to monitoring athlete progress and maintaining accurate records.
• Provide constructive feedback to individuals and groups to encourage continuous improvement.
• Promote positive behaviour, teamwork, confidence, and resilience in participants.

Programme Support & Administration

• Assist with session planning, risk assessments, equipment management, and venue preparation.
• Contribute to programme evaluation, data reporting, and feedback collection.
• Support marketing and operational tasks such as social media updates, newsletters, and event setup.

Professional Development

• Attend training, workshops, and apprenticeship learning sessions as required.
• Reflect on coaching practice and contribute to discussions with mentors and tutors.
• Work towards completing the Level 4 Sports Coach Apprenticeship within the expected time frame.
• 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.
• Design and deliver progressive programmes and select coaching pedagogies that maximise engagement, whole child/person development and accelerate sustainable skill acquisition.
• Deliver safe and effective coaching support to participants in practice, at events or competitions and influence learning and skill transfer across situations.
• Embrace each participant's uniqueness, their rights and advocate 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 through analysis of participant, coach, coaching team and organisational perception and performance data.
• Proactively respond 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 athletes'/players' unique needs, goals, curriculum, progressive programmes, practice, and competition schedules.
• Prepare for sessions by organising resources, conducting event risk assessment and ensuring safe operating procedures in line with high performance sport policy.
• Deliver safe, inclusive sessions and make 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 respond 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 ensuring safe operating procedures in line with community organisation health and safety policy.
• Deliver safe and inclusive and effective sessions and make adaptations in the moment to engage and enrich participants through 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 respond 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 ensuring safe operating procedures in line with school health and safety policy.
• Deliver safe, inclusive and effective sessions and make necessary adaptations to develop children's psychomotor skill mastery through 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 evaluate the impact of coaching practice on school standards by comparing children's results against local and national benchmarks.
• 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.
• Design and deliver progressive programmes and select coaching pedagogies that maximise engagement, whole child/person development and accelerate sustainable skill acquisition.
• Deliver safe and effective coaching support to participants in practice, at events or competitions and influence learning and skill transfer across situations.
• Embrace each participant's uniqueness, their rights and advocate 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 through analysis of participant, coach, coaching team and organisational perception and performance data.

Training schedule

This programme is delivered via a day release delivery model, which means that one day per week, your attendance is required at our Derb Road Campus (NG18). This attendance is required during term time only. You will work with expert assessors and tutors to develop new knowledge, skills and behaviours within the profession. You will experience a blended learning model.

Next Level Sports

Next Level Sports are a Nottinghamshire based sports coaching company, specialising in delivering high quality PE, School Sport, Holiday Activity Camps and Teacher Training throughout the East Midlands. Providing schools and parents with the highest quality in physical education, swimming provision, extra‑curricular clubs, and school holiday activities - from Foundation Stage through to Year 6.

Qualifications

GCSE in:

• English (grade 4)
• Maths (grade 4)

BTEC in:

• Coaching (grade Level 1 or 2)
• Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

• Communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Customer care skills
• Problem solving skills
• Presentation skills
• Analytical skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Creative
• Initiative
• Non judgemental
• Patience
• Physical fitness
• Driving licence and your own vehicle is essential due to travelling to locations in the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire areas.