Sports Coach Apprentice

St Michael's CofE Primary Academy, Handsworth, Birmingham, West Midlands, B21 0UX

7 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  1st September, 2025

• Closing date

  13 June 2025 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  3 June 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Full-time equivalent salary: National wage for apprentices during year 1 and Real Living Wage thereafter until the end of the apprenticeship

Sports Coach Apprentice job summary

We are seeking to recruit enthusiastic and passionate apprentice to join the St. Michael’s team. This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidates to begin a career in physical education and school sport; gaining qualifications and practical experience within a school setting.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who has a passion for engaging with children, young people and families through sport and physical activities and who is excited by our vision and what we do. You’ll learn how to coach to the highest standards working with children and young people, where you can use your skills to build your career and make a tangible difference.

Through training and mentoring, you will advance your skills and experience, learning school curriculum expectations and requirements, gaining the knowledge to teach and coach to exceptional standards. You’ll also take this knowledge beyond the ‘classroom’ and get involved in community-based / inter-school sports coaching activities – helping children to have fun whilst getting active in a wide range of ways.

We want to recruit the right candidate and employ for character over skills. The right person will be driven and ambitious, hardworking and committed, love working with children, and want to make a difference to the community of Handsworth. With these personal qualities and characteristics, we can support the successful candidate to develop and grow during their apprenticeship.

You’ll work alongside our experienced lead coach, teachers, and support staff to deliver a wide range of exciting sports-based activities, remembering that we use the word ‘sport’ to encompass all forms of physical activity, which aim at expressing or improving physical fitness, mental wellbeing and the formation of social relationships. Your week could include everything from breakfast club to after-school clubs, PE lessons, parent sports clubs, residential trips, adventure activities, themed school sports days, dance groups, cycling groups, group fitness classes, training sessions and inter-school sports competitions.

Please see the applicant pack for further information.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs are not accepted.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

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About St Michael's CofE Primary Academy, Handsworth

• School type: Academy, Church of England, ages 4 to 11
• Education phase: Primary
• School size: 176 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 4 to 11
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: St Michael's CofE Primary Academy, Handsworth website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/st-michael-s-cofe-primary-academy-handsworth

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