Level 4 School Sports Coach Apprentice
About the role
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.
The nature of roles and responsibilities for this role may include:
- Working directly with pupils of all ages
- Working collaboratively with a wide range of partner organisations and industry specialists
- Planning and delivering programmes of physical activity for pupils, families and communities
- Performing physical activity and fundamental movement skills baseline and impact assessments of children
- Supporting the delivery of high quality and inclusive PE lessons to pupils in schools in line with the requirements of national curriculum for PE and the profile of needs across the pupil population
- Delivering an exciting extracurricular sports and activity programme including lunchtime activities in schools/communities/leisure facilities
- Offering family engagement projects for physical activity
- Delivering provision to enhance the mental health, self-esteem and wellbeing of service users
- Supporting competitive sports events
- Coordinating sports and physical activity related projects
- Safeguard children at all times
- Contribute to the overall ethos and working values of the school
- 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 coaches in managing pupil behaviour, reporting difficulties as appropriate
- Attend all training sessions as required for CPD purposes
Working week
Monday - Friday (Term time plus two additional weeks) 8.30am - 4.30pm per day (4.00pm finish on a Friday and 30 minutes lunchtime per day)
Skills
Required qualifications
Training & development
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
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
About HALES VALLEY TRUST
Priory Primary School is a vibrant and energetic school in central Dudley with over 550 amazing pupils! Priory first opened in 1930 and nearly 100 years later still serves the local community and its children.
The Priory team are dedicated and strive to deliver a creative and stimulating curriculum that engages and excites our pupils to reach their full potential. We are a values driven school which allows our pupils to feel safe and secure in a warm and welcoming learning environment. As a result, our children are confident and willing to tackle challenges of any kind.