School Sport Coach Apprentice- Brooke Mead

This is a fantastic opportunity for enthusiastic and energetic individuals looking to enter or excel in a career within sports coaching and/or teaching. The school sport coach will collaborate with teachers to develop pupils' mastery of psychomotor skills by applying a whole child approach in the coaching programmes they design and deliver.

As a School Sport Coach Apprentice, you will need to understand how to plan and deliver coaching sessions. You will also need to inspire, motivate and enthuse your students.

Below are the main roles you will be expected to carry out during your apprenticeship:

• Support the provision of high-quality PE during and after school
• Involve all children in physical education and adapting lessons to children with different abilities
• Give feedback to students on performance and help them to improve techniques and understanding
• Improve links with other local schools and partners to help with competitive sport and physical activity provision
• Utilise and collaborate with industry-wide support networks and internal team members to ensure the most effective coaching services are delivered to participants
• Increase physical activity levels within the school
• Increase physical activity during break and lunchtimes
• Assist with the improvement of staff development within the area of PE and school sport
• Support the PE department with cxtra-curricular sessions/fixtures
• Assist the school in its day to day duties (support classroom activities and the school environment)
• Plan fun, engaging activities, sessions and programmes in a safe environment
• Manage coursework set by the aprenticeship
• Develop and update own philosophy and strategies through professional practice, continuous development and self-review
• Develop and implement evidence-based, progressive teaching systems that comply with all relevant and current legislation, statutory guidance, sector standards and codes
• Use up-to-date knowledge of wider issues affecting the teaching environment to proactively influence best practice across the PE team
• Promote holistic wellbeing within teaching practice to control/contain stressors experienced by participants in the teaching environment
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of education standards, trends, frameworks, paradigms and contemporary influences
• Deliver appropriate coaching pedagogies and processes that align to national physical education curriculum and considers the school context, category, culture, strategies and regulatory constraints

REQUIREMENTS AND PROSPECTS

DESIRED SKILLS & PERSONAL QUALITIES:

• Communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Problem solving skills
• Administrative skills
• Team working
• Creative
• Initiative
• Non judgemental
• Patience

THINGS TO CONSIDER

Additional training to take place at Loughborough College every 2 weeks to develop knowledge, skills, and behaviours to accordance to this Apprenticeship. Please ensure you are able to travel before applying. Loughborough College reserves the right to withdraw this vacancy before the end date, following consultation with the employer.