School Sports Coach Apprenticeship
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Company: DELTA ACADEMIES TRUST
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Location: Bradford, BD2 1JP
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Type: Apprenticeship
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Salary: Apprenticeship Minimum Wage
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Sector: Health and science
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Ref: NAS-2000057914
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Application Deadline Date: 15/11/2026
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Start Date: 16/11/2026
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Positions Available: 1
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Working Week: Monday - Friday. Times to be confirmed.
Brief Description
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.
Training to be Provided
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
Future Prospects
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
Vacancy Detail
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
Other Information
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
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and anyone applying to work with us is expected to share this commitment. Therefore, this position is subject to receipt of an enhanced DBS disclosure.