Sports Coach Level 4 Higher Apprenticeship

Course Overview

Sports Coach Level 4 Higher Apprenticeship

The Level 4 Sports Coach HigherApprenticeship will prepare you to design and deliver coaching programmes that engage, motivate and develop participants’ skills. You will use sports knowledge to provide high-quality learning experiences, enhance wellbeing and drive social change. Whether coaching at grassroots or elite level, you will help athletes reach their potential and contribute to the wider sports and health community.

Course Content

• Develop and update own coaching philosophy and strategies through professional practice, continuous development and self-review.

• Develop and implement evidence-based, progressive coaching 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 coaching environment to proactively influence best practice across the coaching team.

• Utilise and collaborate with industry-wide support networks and internal team members to ensure the most effective coaching services are delivered to participants.

• Use appropriate enquiry and profiling techniques to create a learning and development curriculum that considers participants’ unique needs, targets and/or goals, whilst building trust.

• Provide support to participants and the wider coaching team through progressive coaching programmes, at events or competitions.

• Promote holistic wellbeing within coaching practice to control/contain stressors experienced by participants in the coaching environment.

• Facilitate learning and skill acquisition of participants by creating positive coaching environments that apply learning theories, behaviour management techniques, technological advancements and wider support mechanisms.

• Measure the impact of coaching strategies on participants’ sustainable engagement and development and evaluate effectiveness of own performance on the wider coaching team, organisation and sport.